A delegation of 52 mainly Afrikaans-speaking South Africans met ANC leaders in exile in Dakar. The participants included writers, academics, religious figures and business people who opposed or questioned apartheid. The meeting opened a new channel of dialogue across a racial and political divide created by apartheid, while remaining an unofficial initiative rather than a formal negotiation between the ANC and the state.
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What was the Dakar meeting in July 1987?
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The encounter opened unofficial dialogue, not formal negotiations.