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...State President P.W. Botha's fourth address in six weeks before a provincial congress of South Africa's ruling National Party. Earlier speeches had drawn international TV crews and standing-room-only crowds, but this one played to a half-empty hall. Even the usually thunderous Botha seemed somewhat weary of the routine. Once again his theme was racial reform, and once again his message was fraught with ambiguities and contradictions. "I finally confirm," he announced in Port Elizabeth, "that my party and my government are committed to the principle of a united South Africa, one citizenship and a universal...
...done when those in power move against the very leaders who could do the most to resolve a potentionally explosive situation. The South African government has shown none of the restraint that we expect from Harvard and other American universities; while we have waited for the CRR's decision, Botha's government has lauched an unprecedented crackdown on leaders of internal dissent movements--especially more moderate leaders. As increasing numbers of committed non-violent dissenters are silenced, the regime has made it virtually certain that the country will see more deaths arising from leaderless chaos in the townships, or from...
...forces from southern Angola in exchange for Angola's promise to prohibit SWAPO forces from operating there. The accusation followed the disclosure that South Africa had violated a similar pact with Mozambique by supplying antigovernment guerrillas in that country with radios and weapons. South African Foreign Minister Roelof ("Pik") Botha admitted to "technical violations" of the accord, but claimed that they had been committed in hopes of promoting peace talks between the rebels and the Mozambican government...
...only solution and are totally unwilling to compromise, rationally consider alternatives or heed evidence to the contrary. These students, on a mission from God, feel compelled to lambast any move to fight apartheid by the "establishment." Short of personally hiring a plane, flying to Pretoria, and splitting P. W. Botha's head with an Uzi submachine gun, there is virtually nothing President Bok can accomplish with full credit. Unless those who oppose divestment are ready to throw themselves entirely at the mercy of these inspired activists, then there is no hope for a better day in South Africa, activists...
...week's most important developments concerned the government's changing policies on apartheid. Assuming that Botha follows through, the changes will mark the beginning of the end of the elaborate Verwoerdian plan of creating ten black homelands, thereby leaving the remaining 87% of the country's land area to white South Africans. The citizenry of each of the four existing "independent" homelands is divided between people who live there and those who reside in the black townships of white South Africa. The government had previously said that the 4 million blacks in the latter category could continue to live legally...