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...first anniversary of the Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act of 1986 approaches, South Africa's white minority has neither chosen the carrot nor suffered the stick. The government of State President P.W. Botha has undertaken none of the political changes specified in the act, sticking instead to its own long-scheduled list of minor reforms. South Africa's economy, meanwhile, though limping in spots, has not endured any major setbacks as the result of either U.S. sanctions or similar punitive measures that have been imposed by 27 other countries. Says Helen Suzman, a staunchly antiapartheid member of South Africa's Parliament...
...affairs -- sanctions are the worst possible way of trying to achieve this end." That argument is, of course, self-serving. But the government strummed loudly on the sanctions issue during South Africa's parliamentary election campaign earlier this year. Voter resentment over the measures not only helped keep Botha's National Party in power but also propelled the even more reactionary Conservative Party into second place -- and status as the official opposition -- sending Suzman's liberal Progressive Federal Party into the wilderness...
...supplier of oil, gasoline, electricity and most consumer goods. In exchange for South African economic cooperation, Swaziland has closely policed the activities of antiapartheid African National Congress militants within its borders. A few weeks ago Mswati met at the royal residence with South Africa's Foreign Minister Roelof ("Pik") Botha, who had been a close friend of the King's father, to discuss a continuation of those ties...
While the country fretted over the continuing strike, State President P.W. Botha announced that parliamentary elections scheduled for 1989 would be postponed until 1992. The move was presumably aimed at giving Botha a chance to press ahead with what he regards as his reform program before having to face another challenge from far-right opponents...
...same time, Botha unleashed a strong attack on the 61 white moderates who last month flew to Dakar, Senegal, for talks with leaders of the banned African National Congress. "Let Dakar be a lesson to all South Africans," thundered Botha in Parliament. "A leopard never changes its spots." In the future, he warned, the government will maintain tighter control over the issuance and renewal of passports and will set up a commission to look into the activities and funding of organizations like the Institute for a Democratic Alternative for South Africa, the antiapartheid group that planned the trip to Dakar...