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Yet, significant as these changes are, it is hardly likely that the basis of social organisation will be drastically altered in the immediate futureThe white minority did not elect De Klerk to initiate and preside over the dismantling of its dominance. The release of the prisoners, while it is at one level a capitulation to internal forces of revolution, can be simultaneously employed to divide these forces. That there is an incipient polarisation within ANC, between the young militants and the moderate elders, on the issues of violence, negotiations and the future role of the whites is evident. What is equally evident is that the government has been making efforts to heighten dormant tensions by hinting that Mandela has unilaterally been negotiating with the authorities on the question of systemic changes. The course and outcome of the future struggle will depend largely on whether the ANC surmounts such potentially divisive obstacles.