Word: bothas
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...first trip to the country in nearly eleven years, Jackson has not exactly been welcomed by the white establishment in South Africa. Even before his plane touched down, Foreign Minister Roelof ("Pik") Botha accused him of doing some double-talking in getting his visa. At a stopover in London, Jackson repeated his strong support for sanctions against the South African government. Said Botha: "It is a pity he made these remarks about sanctions, because he made exactly the opposite remarks to my Ambassador ((in Washington)) when they had private talks...
...attempt to soften the face of apartheid, he had set up the tricameral Parliament in 1984. It established a strictly limited form of power sharing that for the first time included coloreds, or people of mixed race, and Indians, but not blacks. Whatever the failures of that system, Pik Botha insists, it at least helped condition the minds of whites "to see a man of color acting like a gentleman just like everybody else." By the time De Klerk ordered the removal of the remaining WHITES ONLY signs on South Africa's beaches just before the Christmas holidays, whites complained...
Whatever the government's cause for hesitation, Mandela has none. Newspapers last week published the text of a document he had delivered to the government prior to his tea with Botha last July. In it he urged both the A.N.C. and the government to "meet urgently to negotiate an effective political settlement." But he also made it clear exactly where he stood. "White South Africa," he wrote, "must accept the plain fact that the A.N.C. will not suspend, to say nothing of abandoning, the armed struggle until the government agrees to negotiate" with recognized black leaders. In addition, wrote Mandela...
Neither external nor domestic pressure has managed to budge Botha or De Klerk from this basic position. National Party ministers say they see no point in trying to appease overseas sanctioners because nothing will satisfy them except handing over power to a black government, which Pretoria says it will never...
...answer is no, or at least not yet. Pretoria's calls for change are not a recent concession to foreign pressure. As early as 1979, long before economic sanctions were considered, President P.W. Botha told his Afrikaner volk to "adapt or die." In 1986 he described apartheid as "outdated and unacceptable." It was only later that year, to push for faster change, that the U.S. enacted its comprehensive sanctions bill. Those measures hit South Africa where it hurts: in the economy, and in the keen sense among whites that they are pariahs in the world's eyes and will remain...