Word: botha
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...policy: perpetuation of power by the country's whites, who number only about 5 million, or 18% of the population. Now, however, deep fissures have appeared within the ruling party. Sixteen members of Parliament, including two Cabinet members, have broken with the government of Prime Minister Pieter W. Botha and formed a new, far-right political group, the Conservative Party. They accused Botha of straying from the apartheid precepts set by the ruling party more than a generation ago. The public debate that erupted as a result may be the fiercest within the country's white community since...
Leading the defectors is Dr. Andries Treurnicht, a former clergyman and editor who had been Botha's Minister of State Administration and Statistics as well as the head of the National Party's right wing. Along with him went Dr. Ferdinand Hartzenberg, who had served as Minister of Education and Training. Exuding confidence, the Prime Minister accused the dissident group of "insubordination" and added that its members would not be missed...
...Botha's ruling party is considering the creation of three separate-but not equal-parliaments for whites, coloreds and Asians. A council of Cabinets, with a white majority, would coordinate government policy under the direction of an executive President, who would be chosen by a white-dominated electoral college. In effect, whites would remain in charge, but coloreds and Asians would be represented to some extent...
...power-sharing issue has suddenly become urgent because Botha would like to include colored males in the national service system. But he believes he cannot justifiably do so until the colored community is given a voice in its own affairs...
...have long counseled against any case-by-case approach because it would strip the University of the moral leverage of an absolute ban, and because, in others' hands, it has proven unable to sway the repressive Botha regime. And we continue to favor total divestiture of Harvard's holdings in all corporations that deal with South Africa...