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Mandela was given an <strong>of</strong>fice in the newly purchased ANC headquarters at Shell House,<br />
Johannesburg, and moved into Winnie's large Soweto home. <strong>The</strong>ir marriage was<br />
increasingly strained as he learned <strong>of</strong> her affair with Dali Mp<strong>of</strong>u, but he supported her<br />
during her trial for kidnapping and assault. He gained funding for her defense from the<br />
International Defense and Aid Fund for Southern Africa and from Libyan<br />
leader Muammar Gaddafi, but in June 1991 she was found guilty and sentenced to six<br />
years in prison, reduced to two on appeal. On 13 April 1992, Mandela publicly<br />
announced his separation from Winnie. <strong>The</strong> ANC forced her to step down from the<br />
national executive for misappropriating ANC funds; Mandela moved into the mostly<br />
white Johannesburg suburb <strong>of</strong> Houghton.<br />
Mandela's prospects for a peaceful transition were further damaged by an increase in<br />
"black-on-black" violence, particularly between ANC and Inkatha supporters<br />
in KwaZulu-Natal, which resulted in thousands <strong>of</strong> deaths. Mandela met with Inkatha<br />
leader Buthelezi, but the ANC prevented further negotiations on the issue. Mandela<br />
argued that there was a "third force" within the state intelligence services fuelling the<br />
"slaughter <strong>of</strong> the people" and openly blamed de Klerk—whom he increasingly<br />
distrusted—for the Sebokeng massacre. In September 1991, a national peace<br />
conference was held in Johannesburg at which Mandela, Buthelezi and de Klerk signed<br />
a peace accord, though the violence continued.<br />
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