Transvaaluation. South African President F. W. de Klerk may be the one moving mountains to end apartheid, but it’s the African National Congress that is being rewarded by the Bush Administration and the U.S. Congress. And how.
During a May 31 CIA-hosted secret conference in Washington, which escaped the U.S. press but was picked up by Simon Barber of Johannesburg Business Day, Herman Cohen, assistant secretary for African affairs, laid out the Administration’s alarming new policy: 1) the U.S. must “tilt” toward the ANC and recognize it—as opposed to others like the six-million strong, Chief Buthelezi—led Zulu tribe—as “the most significant black-majority party,” and 2) the U.S. will not make even a token gesture toward de Klerk in recognition of his reforms, let alone end sanctions.
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