Word: bothas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...power enough to force the resignation of Soweto's 41-member Urban Bantu Council for being too subservient to white control and to close most of the ghetto's secondary and high schools in a student-led boycott. They even helped speed the resignation of M.C. Botha, an archconservative who was South Africa's Minister of Bantu Administration. Since then, however, The Children have been shadowed, jailed and harassed to the point of impotency. So have others, including members of the Committee of Ten, a group that linked youth with older black-consciousness leaders...
Thebehali's ambitions are ardently supported by Cornelius ("Connie") Mulder, 53, a smooth-talking Transvaal politician who succeeded Botha. Mulder has vowed to make Soweto "the most beautiful city in Africa" by planning two new shopping centers and hotel complexes, theaters, drive-in movies, a tennis club and stadium and at least 8,000 new six-room houses with electricity. The housing is a better offer than Sowetans have experienced up to now, but there are catches: under terms of the 99-year leases, a father could not hand down a house through his family. Also, the government retains...
Indeed, South African Foreign Minister Roelof Botha welcomed Carter's criticism of Soviet activities in Africa. It was now up to Pretoria to convince the U.S. Administration of "the realities facing Africa," he said. Significantly, Carter made little mention of Zaïre in his Annapolis speech; he may well have been responding to U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young's argument that the U.S. must not lose sight of the far greater importance of the black-white struggle in southern Africa. At the Paris meeting, the U.S., as well as Britain and Belgium, argued for an African military force...
...Pretoria, Vance was encouraged that South African Foreign Minister Roelof ("Pik") Botha tacitly urged him to carry on with his efforts for a broader Rhodesian settlement. Then, during five hours of talks in Salisbury, Vance and Owen tried to persuade Smith and his colleagues (sarcastically described by some observers as "the gang of four") that the Rhodesians had nothing to lose by attending a round-table meeting. Vance reportedly argued that the U.N. might be prepared to lift its economic sanctions against Rhodesia, at least partly, if the Salisbury regime would accept a U.N. supervisory force during the transition...
Meanwhile South African government officials reacted to the statements by Young and Carter with rage. Foreign Minister Roelof ("Pik") Botha, formerly his country's Ambassador to Washington, denounced the U.S. as a "faithless friend" and as Pretoria's "No. 1 enemy," and accused Carter of demanding from South Africa a standard that it would not expect from black Africa. As for an arms embargo, Botha contended that South Africa's arms industry was strong enough to overcome any sanctions. Said he: "I think the superpowers, if they want to overcome us, will have to do it with...