1.  Black opposition leaders are arrested, a press clampdown begins and resistance is strangled.

2.  Another priority, he said, was reconciling the polarized nation by reassuring white farmers and black opposition supporters of their place in the country.

3.  But for years the apartheid government financed black opposition movements in Mozambique and Angola in an effort to destabilize the liberation struggle.

4.  But many African leaders insist that Westerners and their black opposition party allies are simply failing to acknowledge basic African realities.

5.  The party has selected Joe Seremane, a black opposition member of Parliament and a former political prisoner, as its national chairman.

6.  But most of the violence has targeted black opposition activists.

7.  He also used the occasion to call on the leaders of the three main black opposition parties to work with the government in the interests of the country.

8.  Human rights organizations say nearly all the dead have been black opposition supporters.

9.  Inkatha, the biggest black opposition party to the governing African National Congress, has complained of ANC gerrymandering and registration irregularities in the Johannesburg area.

10.  It also claimed police instigated violence to destabilize the black opposition movement.