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...routine by-election in Germiston, a working-class suburb of Johannesburg, should have been a shoo-in for Prime Minister Pieter W. Botha's National Party. Instead, Flip van der Walt, 63, barely won, carrying the district by a mere 308 of the 9,111 ballots cast. The vote reflects deep, corrosive divisions among South African whites over the country's future direction. The Rand Daily Mail judged the outcome the nation's "biggest electoral shock since 1948," when the National Party swept to power under the banner of white supremacy...
...contest centered on Botha's plan, announced in July, to modify South Africa's policy of apartheid by giving more rights to the country's 2.7 million coloreds, or citizens of mixed race, and its 835,000 Asians. Botha has proposed to divide Parliament into three chambers: one for South Africa's 5 million whites, another for the coloreds and a third for the Asians. Any conflict among the three chambers would be adjudicated by a white-controlled President's Council. The plan gives no political rights to the country's 20 million blacks...
Judge James declared that individuals in the National Intelligence Service and Defense Force had clearly known about the operation but, nonetheless, ruled that allegations of an official South African connection to the operation were "purely hearsay." The day after the trial, Prime Minister P.W. Botha, who had refrained from commenting until the legal proceedings were completed, insisted that the government had not known of the affair. He charged that Hoare had approached members of the intelligence and military forces with his plan and admitted that arms and ammunition had been given to him. Botha said that "departmental action" would...
...interview with Botha...
...standards of South Africa's all-white National Party, Prime Minister Pieter Willem Botha, 66, is a moderate. In his 18th-floor office in Cape Town, he talked with TIME Johannesburg Bureau Chief Marsh Clark about the political battle raging within Afrikanerdom. When Clark joked that the Prime Minister, who describes himself as a conservative, though not an "embalmed" one, bore no visible scars from his recent skirmishes, Botha replied: "I suppose I am like a crayfish-always in hot water." Excerpts from the interview...