ters, the ANC security officers opened fire. By day's end fifty-three people,
mostly IFP demonstrators, lay dead. 60
Mandela, de Klerk, the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC), and
the Transitional Executive Council worked hard to end the strife and
bring Buthelezi into the fold. The IEC extended the deadline for registering
for the election, and de Klerk recalled the old parliament to make several
amendments to the interim constitution,
increasing the range of issues
on which the provinces would be able to legislate and permitting the
provinces to devise their own constitutions. But Buthelezi continued his
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