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DATE: FRIDAY, June 1, 1990                   TAG: 9006010770
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A/1   EDITION: EVENING 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: JOHANNESBURG,SOUTH AFRICA                                LENGTH: Medium

SOUTH AFRICA INTEGRATION BILL DRAFTED

The legislation, which would take effect Oct. 15, will be submitted to Parliament on Monday, where it is expected to pass by mid-June, the South African Press Association reported.

Since 1953, the Separate Amenities Act has authorized provincial governments,municipalities and privately owned entertainment establishments to reserve facilities for whites. If the law is repealed, public bathrooms, libraries and transporation - as well as privately owned restaurants and nightclubs - could no longer be segregated.

Many public amenities already have been integrated in Johannesburg,but dated laws remain on the books.

The effort to repeal the Separate Amenities Act was the latest move by President F.W. de Klerk to end apartheid. He has said he intends to give South Africa's black majority the vote by 1994, but he has stopped short of endorsing black majority rule.

The largest white opposition party, the Conservative Party, is the only parliamentary group expected to oppose repealing the Separate Amenities Act. But the party does not have enough votes to block it.

Hernus Kriel, minister of provincial affairs and planning, said the legislation would not take effect until October, giving those affected time to prepare for the changes.

Kriel said that if the act is repealed, no South African individual or institution would enjoy legal protection for discrimination on the basis of race in any facility generally open to the public.

Apartheid, the system of racial separation and white minority domination, was made law by the National Party when it came to power in 1948.

Other pillars of the system that remain are laws that reserve most of the country's land for white ownership and put power in the hands of the white minority by denying a national vote to blacks.

Since taking office in September, de Klerk has legalized dozens of outlawed black political organizations,freed scores of political prisoners, legalized a few, small multiracial neighborhoods,suspended the death penalty, ended segregation of beaches and ordered the end of segregated hospitals.

Still, de Klerk opposes one-person, one-vote majority rule and suggests a system where cultural, social and ethnic groups would have government representation.

The Conservative Party and white extremist organizations have denounced de Klerk's actions as treason to the white Afrikaners who control the government. Some have said they are willing to defend their rights under apartheid with force, if necessary.