Word: botha
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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CAPE TOWN, South Africa--President P.W. Botha announced that the 195-day-old state of emergency imposed to fight anti-apartheid turmoil in South Africa probably would be lifted by Friday...
...Botha also made a new offer of statehood for Namibia, proposing an August 1 target date for starting moves toward the territory's independence. He made it conditional on a withdrawal of Cuban troops from neighboring Angola...
...Botha made his announcements to a packed parliamentary chamber in the country's legislative capital...
...accredited foreign journalists in South Africa, it did not seem possible that life could get more frustrating. Since early November, photographers and television crews have been barred by the government of State President P.W. Botha from recording any public disturbances or police actions in declared emergency areas. Print journalists have been required to have police escorts in turbulent townships. Despite the restraints, reporters have managed at times to slip undetected into restricted areas. But when racial violence erupted last week in Alexandra, a black township near Johannesburg, the police and army clamped down on both print and broadcast journalists with...
...thus unfortunate that the Crimson in their Thursday feature on the South African Internship scheme sought to describe such people as "moderate," when in fact they represent some of the most dangerous elements in South Africa. Their role in sustaining Botha's rule is reminiscent of that of the German liberals towards Bismarck's regime: they are a "loyal opposition" which is unwilling to risk the loss of its social privilege by making real alliances for democracy with the majority. By being willing to participate in Botha's sick charade of democracy, they undermine the possibility of creating the South...