Word: botha
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Last week State President P.W. Botha took strong action to shore up the country's quickly deteriorating network of black schools. He announced a new set of regulations designed to restore order to the schoolhouse -- and to crush rampant dissent within it. The emergency decree empowers the director general of the Department of Education and Training to set rules governing almost everything touching school life, including whether students can wear T shirts emblazoned with political slogans...
...regulate the movements of students to prevent fraternization with militants, and to close the schools to nonstudent groups. With new authority to disallow politically objectionable classroom materials, the department is certain to shut down, by police action if necessary, "people's education" classes, which had apparently helped provoke Botha's decree...
Only days after the new school regulations were announced, Botha declared that he will set a date later this year for a general election for the country's 2.3 million white voters. Political analysts saw the move as an attempt by Botha to win a new mandate for the ruling National Party in the face of the mounting black revolt and international isolation. In the eyes of Botha's right-wing constituents especially, get-tough measures like the school regulations are precisely what is needed to bring South Africa's racial unrest under control...
...piece of hyperbole by an information official, South Africa last week imposed one of the most draconian censorship policies in the non-Communist world. Only six months after it had decreed a harsh emergency rule in an effort to quell rising racial unrest, the government of State President P.W. Botha now sought to shroud the country's apartheid-torn society in a veil of secrecy and intimidation. Though the move was aimed principally at curtailing the domestic and foreign press, its overall intent was to cut off South Africa, its people and its fate from the eyes and concern...
...wake of the latest punitive measures against South Africa, State President P.W. Botha charged that his government's efforts to reform apartheid were being ignored by other countries. In a ceremony that opened a medical center in Cape Province, Botha called sanctions "anti-South African legislation." He added that "the U.S. has already declared an economic war against us for the most absurd and sanctimonious reasons. In doing so, they have yet again taken up the sword against us on behalf of the Soviet Union and its goals in this region. I find it revolting." As others find apartheid, which...