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...here to bury P.W. Botha, not to praise him," declared Elijah Barayi, president of the Congress of South African Trade Unions, at its convention in ( Johannesburg last week. The 1,500 delegates roared their approval of Barayi's plans for the South African President, then endorsed the Freedom Charter, the 1955 manifesto of the outlawed African National Congress that calls for an end to apartheid and nationalization of the country's banks, corporations and gold and coal mines...
Still, many blacks support divestiture as a means to pressure the Botha government. A crippled economy, it is hoped, will eventually force the government to make meaningful reforms. Among the defenders of corporate pullouts are the Congress of South African Trade Unions and Archbishop Desmond Tutu, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize and leader of the Anglican Church in Southern Africa...
...Pretoria, Foreign Minister Roelof ("Pik") Botha declared that South Africa could not "allow itself to be threatened in this way." The Reagan Administration took milder exception to Sullivan's announcement, saying that "it is now more important than ever for U.S. firms to stay and work for an end of apartheid." Several U.S. companies suggested they would continue to follow the Sullivan Principles. Asked whether the guidelines could endure without Sullivan, the clergyman quipped, "Well, they kept the Ten Commandments without Moses...
Sullivan is convinced the government of State President P.W. Botha is "pushing back even the reforms that have been made." But last week Botha made a symbolic effort to gain black support by visiting the district of Lekoa, whose precincts include the township of Sharpeville. In 1960 police gunned down 69 blacks in Sharpeville when they staged a peaceful demonstration against the pass laws, which were repealed last year. The mayor of Lekoa, Esau Mahlatsi, urged Botha to allow blacks to enter Parliament, while the President in turn asked townspeople to resist "the influence of radicals and fanatics." Though Botha...
...huge lead in the polls, Margaret Thatcher' s Tories begin the election campaign touting the country' s "revived spirit," while Labor depicts a land of Dickensian misery and the Alliance aims for the middle. -- South Africa' s Conservative Party, the new official opposition, makes State President P. W. Botha sound like a moderate. -- Fiji faces an uncertain future...