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10.00-13.00: Despacho no CC.ECS.UE
14.00-15.00: Uma reunião…..
16.00-17.00: Despacho CC ECS UE
17.00-18.00: Definição de orientadores de tese MEHE
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20 anos atrás… anuncia-se a libertação de Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela
FW de KLERK DE : mensagem ao Parlamento Sul Africano ( 2 de fevereiro 1990]
“Mr Speaker, Members of Parliament.
The general election on September the 6th, 1989, placed our country irrevocably on the road of drastic change. Underlying this is the growing realization by an increasing number of South Africans that only a negotiated understanding among the representative leaders of the entire population is able to ensure lasting peace.
The alternative is growing violence, tension and conflict. That is unacceptable and in nobody's interest. The well-being of all in this country is linked inextricably to the ability of the leaders to come to terms with one another on a new dispensation. No-one can escape this simple truth.
On its part, the Government will accord the process of negotiation the highest priority. The aim is a totally new and just constitutional dispensation in which every inhabitant will enjoy equal rights, treatment and opportunity in every sphere of endeavour - constitutional, social and economic.
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The countries of Southern Africa are faced with a particular challenge; Southern Africa now has an historical opportunity to set aside its conflicts and ideological differences and draw up a joint programme of reconstruction. It should be sufficiently attractive to ensure that the Southern African region obtains adequate investment and loan capital from the industrial countries of the world. Unless the countries of Southern Africa achieve stability and a common approach to economic development rapidly, they will be faced by further decline and ruin.The Government is prepared to enter into discussions with other Southern African countries with the aim of formulating a realistic development plan. The Government believes that the obstacles in the way of a conference of Southern African states have now been removed sufficiently. Hostile postures have to be replaced by co-operative ones; confrontation by contact; disengagement by engagement; slogans by deliberate debate. The season of violence is over. The time for reconstruction and reconciliation has arrived.
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In conclusion, I wish to focus the spotlight on the process of negotiation and related issues. At the stage I am refraining deliberately from discussing the merits of numerous political questions which undoubtedly will be debated during the next few weeks. The focus, now, has to fall on negotiation.
Practically every leader agrees that negotiation is the key to reconciliation, peace and a new and just dispensation. However, numerous excuses for refusing to take part, are advanced. Some of the reasons being advanced are valid. Others are merely part of a political chess game. And while the game of chess proceeds, valuable time is being lost.
Against this background I committed the Government during my inauguration to giving active attention to the most important obstacles in the way of negotiation. Today I am able to announce far-reaching decisions in this connection.
I believe that these decisions will shape a new phase in which there will be a movement away from measures which have been seized upon as a justification for confrontation and violence. The emphasis has to move, and will more now, to a debate and discussion of political and economic points of view as part of the process of negotiation.
I wish to urge every political and community leader, in and outside Parliament, to approach the new opportunities which are being created, constructively. There is no time left for advancing all manner of new conditions that will delay the negotiating process.
The steps that have been decided, are the following:
* The prohibition of the African National Congress, the Pan Africanist Congress, the South African Communist Party and a number of subsidiary organisations is being rescinded.
* People serving prison sentences merely because they were members of one of these organizations or because they committed another offence which was merely an offence because a prohibition on one of the organizations was in force, will be identified and released. Prisoners who have been sentenced for other offences such as murder, terrorism or arson are not affected by this.
* The media emergency regulations as well as the education emergency regulations are being abolished in their entirety.
* The security emergency regulations will be amended to still make provision for effective control over visual material pertaining to scenes of unrest.
* The restrictions in terms of the emergency regulations on 33 organizations are being rescinded. The organizations include the following:
National Education Crisis Committee
South African National Students Congress
United Democratic Front
CosatuDie Blanke Bevrydingsbeweging van Suid-Afrika.
* The conditions imposed in terms of the security emergency regulations on 374 people on their release, are being rescinded and the regulations which provide for such conditions are being abolished.
* The period of detention in terms of the security emergency regulations will be limited henceforth to six months. Detainees also acquire the right to legal representation and a medical practitioner of their own choosing.
These decisions by the Cabinet are in accordance with the Government's declared intention to normalise the political process in South Africa without jeopardising the maintenance of the good order. They were preceded by thorough and anonymous advice by a group of officials which included members of the security community. Implementation will be immediate and, where necessary, notices will appear in the Government Gazette from tomorrow.The most important facets of the advice the Government received in this connection; are the following:
* The events in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, to which I have referred already, weaken the capability of organisations which were previously supported strongly from those quarters.
* The activities of the organizations from which the prohibitions are now being lifted, no longer entail the same degree of threat to internal security which initially necessitated the imposition of the prohibition.
* There have been important shifts of emphasis in the statements and points of view of the most important of the organisations concerned, which indicate a new approach and a preference for peaceful solutions.
* The South African Police is convinced that it is able, in the present circumstances, to combat violence and other crimes perpetrated also by members of these organizations and to bring offenders to justice without the aid of prohibitions on organizations.
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Among other things, those aims include a new, democratic constitution; universal franchise; no domination; equally before an independent judiciary; the protection of minorities as well as of individual rights; freedom of religion; a sound economy based on proven economic principles and private enterprise; dynamic programmes directed at better education, health services, housing and social conditions for all.
In this connection Mr Nelson Mandela could play an important part. The Government has noted that he has declared himself to be willing to make a constructive contribution to the peaceful political process in South Africa.
I wish to put it plainly that the Government has taken a firm decision to release Mr Mandela unconditionally. I am serious about bringing this matter to finality without delay. The Government will take a decision soon on the date of his release. Unfortunately, a further short passage of time is unavoidable.
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Mr Speaker, Members of Parliament.
I now declare this Second Session of the Ninth Parliament of the Republic of South Africa to be duly opened.”
(ADDRESS BY THE STATE PRESIDENT, MR FW DE KLERK, DMS, AT THE OPENING OF THE SECOND SESSION OF THE NINTH PARLIAMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA, CAPE TOWN, 2 FEBRUARY 1990, Source:ANC )
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