Marius Benson reports from Pretoria on the reaction of the Inkatha Freedom Party to this week's passage of South Africa's new constitution, and the withdrawal from the unity government of the mainly white National Party. The Zulu-led Inkatha--which has been locked for years in a bloody war with the ruling African National Congress--is now the largest minority party in the government. National Party leader F-W De Klerk suggested today that Inkatha might want to follow his lead and quit the government. But Inkatha officials say that in spite of their dislike of the new constitution and the A-N-C, for now they will stay on.
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