Word: beene
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Botha's reforms are motivated by a conviction that majority-rule settlements in Namibia and Zimbabwe Rhodesia will present South Africa with an "adapt or die" situation. Urged by top military advisers, he has ordered a sweeping review of the restrictive laws, known as "petty apartheid," in an attempt...
So far, South African blacks have reacted skeptically to Botha's proposals. Says Bishop Desmond Tutu, secretary-general of the South African Council of Churches: "He is talking about applying an inhuman system more humanely. Things are changing, but there has been no fundamental change." Black leaders and even...
Botha has also run into heated opposition from the verkrampte (rigid) wing of South Africa's ruling Nationalist Party. The solemn, humorless Prime Minister has been heckled as a "Judas" by Afrikaner audiences. In four parliamentary by-elections last month, more than half the eligible voters boycotted the balloting...
A. No, I don't say it is enough. We are daily deliberating with these people, and from time to time new steps are taken as a result of these consultations. What do these people want? Better living conditions, which we are granting. Higher wages, along with higher productivity...
Q. Even so, some whites fear that you are taking them too far. There have even been predictions that reaction to your plans might lead to the breakup of the National Party.