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...installation of Desmond Tutu as Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, the highly charged meeting was one of the less controversial moments of a week that drew her into the vortex of the country's complex racial politics. King had originally planned to see both State President P.W. Botha and Mangosuthu Buthelezi, the moderate leader of South Africa's six million Zulus. But Winnie Mandela and the Rev. Allan Boesak, a founder of the United Democratic Front, an antiapartheid umbrella group, warned that they would not see her if she saw Botha and Buthelezi. King should not meet with the President...
...until ten minutes after the scheduled start of her meeting with Botha that one of King's aides brought the message that she would not keep the appointment. The President said her absence was caused by "those who find themselves in a make-believe world of political fraud." For his part, Buthelezi charged that King had fallen prey to the "internecine political feuding which so lamentably characterizes black South African politics...
...eight days in South Africa and met with businessmen and antiapartheid political leaders, seemed totally bewildered by the antagonisms she found. Conceding at a news conference that the political situation was "more complex than I initially thought," she said she needed "more substantive and more complete information" before meeting Botha at some future date...
Meanwhile, Japan plunged into the sanctions debate. During a one-hour meeting in Tokyo between South African Foreign Minister Roelof ("Pik") Botha and his Japanese counterpart, Tadashi Kuranari, Botha was told that Japan, one of South Africa's main trading partners, may apply punitive new sanctions unless Pretoria moves quickly to end apartheid...
...history." The South African Council of Churches criticized the Soweto councilors for their eviction policy, pointing out that the rent issue had become a "political time bomb" that could "explode in townships throughout South Africa if not wisely handled." By week's end the government of State President P.W. Botha yielded to pressure from all sides and announced that an inquiry into the Soweto massacre would be held...