Whites, he suggested in an article in the fall 1992 issue of the African
Communist that the constitution should contain "sunset clauses." After
heated debates, theAxe executive committee agreed that the interim con-
stitution should honor the existing contracts of civil servants, judges, po-
lice, and military personnel, and provide for a period of compulsory
power-sharing in the cabinet.f"
Bythe time the government and the ANCresumed negotiations, the gov-
ernment's authority had eroded. In his frequent foreign travels, Mandela
had clearly won the battle for external support. At home, the white right
was gaining on the National party in the polls and several cabinet minis-
ters had resigned. Moreover, the Goldstone commission's latest report
said that it had uncovered a secret operation set up in 1991 by the Depart-
ment of Military Intelligence to discredit the ANC,and Lieutenant-General
Pierre Steyn, the army chief of staff, had discovered evidence of military
intelligence involvement in train massacres, assassinations, and gun smug-
gling."? Negotiations between the two major parties went well enough for
a new Multiparty Forum to be convened on April 1, 1993. This body in-
cluded all the major political organizations in the country except the IFP
and the Conservative