For decades, most of the South Africans arrested for political protest have been black. But now that the government has entered formal negotiations for a new constitution with black political parties, including the African National Congress, President F.W. de Klerk is signaling a more evenhanded approach.
Last week police arrested Eugene Terre Blanche, head of the neo-Nazi Afrikaner Resistance Movement, and nine of his most senior lieutenants, and charged them with public violence. The government's action followed a lengthy investigation of a violent clash between Terre Blanche's pro-apartheid brownshirts and police last August in which three people were killed outside a...
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