Word: botha
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With a defiant mood of apartheid now, apartheid forever, Botha said in a BBC interview that he would never countenance a black majority government, a black head of state or a scrapping of segregation in residential areas. "I am not prepared to sacrifice my rights so that the other man can dominate me with his greater numbers," Botha declared. "The other man," of course, is the 26 million blacks who live in South Africa and its "independent homelands" and who outnumber the whites by more than 5 to 1. Botha said he was prepared to grant "the other man" equal...
...elections approached, Botha directed bellicose statements at nearby Zimbabwe, Botswana and Mozambique, charging that those countries were harboring guerrillas of the African National Congress, the South African liberation movement. The State President and his Foreign Minister, Roelof ("Pik") Botha, have been warning the A.N.C. that it would face such military strikes if it tried to disrupt the South African elections...
...tough tactics and attempts to blame foreigners for the country's racial problems, however, did not quiet opposition politicians. Zacharias de Beer, a founding member of South Africa's Progressive Federal Party, told a campaign rally that Foreign Minister Pik Botha was like a "poker player who knows his position is hopeless and who sometimes kicks the table over." The government's calculation, continued De Beer, was "that if you can get the voters to the polls to vote against ((A.N.C. Leader)) Oliver Tambo, then that will be just the injection that the National Party needs." But in truth, said...
Election polls show the ruling National Party to be far ahead, but in some ways it is losing. Botha set out in the campaign to show the world that South African whites solidly support his policy of modest reform of the apartheid system. Instead, it has revealed gaping splits among the whites and growing unrest among blacks...
...national elections approach, the Botha government threatens to strike at neighboring countries and bans demonstrations calling for the release of political prisoners. But a public outcry forces Pretoria to beat a strategic retreat. -- Japanese Prime Minister Nakasone' s party suffers its worst + setback in 30 years. -- A long- suppressed Soviet novel recalls the horrors of the Stalin...