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...black communities, where at least 30 blacks have died in outbreaks of violence. In New Brighton township, near Port Elizabeth, police shot and killed a 15-year-old boy who, they said, was robbing a bus. The deaths increased political strains on the government of Executive President P.W. Botha. As liberal politicians pressed the government to hold an official inquiry into the deaths of Raditsela and Mutsi, the Afrikaner right wing was protesting relaxation of the apartheid laws. The latest move: an end to the plan that would force 700,000 blacks to move from their townships to government-created...
...face of this intransigence, regime opponents are increasingly abandoning peaceful attempts at change. Not only is the resistance movement turning to increasingly strident tactics, but white progressives say Black bitterness threatens interracial cooperation against apartheid. At the same time, Prime Minister Botha's efforts at even token reforms have unleashed a substantial backlash among white South Africans, with a substantial portion of the Afrikaner electorate backing a splinter far right party formed...
...must make a new beginning . . . We must get to know each other . . . With trust and goodwill we can walk forward in faith." The Easter Sunday address by Executive President P.W. Botha was less notable for its message than for its enormous audience: a throng generously estimated by police at up to 3 million black people camped on the flanks of the hills and the low ground of the Moria Valley. All were followers of the Zion Christian Church, which claims more than 4 million members. Botha's reception gave some credence to the President's claim that his white minority...
...Bishop and his enormous flock were ready to agree when Botha, in a veiled reference to South Africa's political unrest, declared that "the forces of darkness must be kept out of the country." Later in the week some 35,000 blacks in the Eastern Cape region attended a mass funeral for 29 victims of the recent racial violence...
...worst recessions in 50 years, seemed increasingly to be on the defensive. Yet, as ever, the more pressure exerted on the leadership, the deeper it dug in its heels, and the more it retreated into kragdadigheid, or a mailed-fist attitude. In an interview on ABC's Nightline program, Botha declared defiantly, "I am going to keep order in South Africa, and nobody is going to stop...