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...President will have his hands full, especially if he is to avert a confrontation between his desperately poor, war-racked country and Pretoria. Last week South African Foreign Minister Roelof ("Pik") Botha charged that documents recovered from the crash indicated that Machel and officials in Zimbabwe had plotted the overthrow of Malawi's Hastings Banda, President of the only black African state that maintains full diplomatic relations with Pretoria. In the event of a coup, warned Botha, the "whole of southern Africa would pay a heavy price...
...circumvent trade sanctions. They have long since proved their skills at "sanctions busting," by defying the United Nations arms embargo imposed against Pretoria in 1977. To combat the new U.S. measures and also those imposed by the European Community and Japan in September, the government of State President P.W. Botha has now established an office for "unconventional trade...
...government of State President P.W. Botha has ordered reprisal raids into countries that harbor guerrillas; negotiated security arrangements with Mozambique and Swaziland, designed to clear out A.N.C. fighters; and even stage-managed a coup in Lesotho, aimed at dislodging A.N.C. bases. After a series of raids last May, the President told Parliament, "South Africa has the capacity and the will to break the A.N.C. I give fair warning that we fully intend doing...
...release would create a new climate. We do not want to substitute negotiations for the struggle. The Portuguese negotiated with the liberation fronts in Mozambique and Angola while hostilities were still going on. The liberation struggle for Zimbabwe continued while talks went on at Lancaster House in London. President Botha says we must disarm ourselves before talks. Why? This is not serious...
...Komatipoort that Machel and South African President P.W. Botha signed the 1984 Treaty of Nkomati, which was hailed as the start of an era of friendly relations. After signing it, Machel also made overtures to the West for investment and met with President Reagan in Washington...