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...Botha stated quite succinctly that the whites are interested only in their own survival as a separate race and culture in South Africa. Even in this time of intense international pressure for reform, he eschewed fundamental precepts of liberty and equality in favor of the continued predominance of the white population...
...NEWS PROGRAM this past week, South African Foreign Minister Pik Botha earnestly proclaimed that the state of siege his government has imposed on that country and the media censorship it has enforced are largely the results of a letter circulated among members of the South African Communist Party. The letter, according to Botha, indicated that the communist group had little interest in negotiating with the white minority government and therefore posed a threat of violence to the nation...
...second-ranking official in the nationalist government, Botha implied that the presence of communist ideologues warrants and justifies the immediate sacrifice of the rights of democracy, freedom of the press, and habeus corpus of the majority of the people within that nation. But the foreign minister's fear of a communist conspiracy, of which he offered no proof other than the existence of a letter, does not lend credibility to his government's increasingly repressive, even totalitarian policies...
...again clashed with police as they continued their campaign of disrupting meetings of the ruling National Party. Earlier last month, white police in the northern Transvaal town of Pietersburg were forced to fire tear gas at the movement's supporters when they refused to allow Foreign Minister Roelof ("Pik") Botha to address a rally. Against this troubled backdrop, Botha held an hour-long interview in his Cape Town office with TIME Executive Editor Edward L. Jamieson and Johannesburg Correspondent Peter Hawthorne. Excerpts...
...these reports are true, Botha's ploy can be said to have worked. In Lusaka, the exiled A.N.C. leader Oliver Tambo, who has been running the organization ever since his friend Mandela went to prison in the early 1960s, called on South African blacks to give their full support to a national strike on June 16, the tenth anniversary of the uprising in Soweto. Declared Tambo: "Let every university and school be emptied of its youth. Let every mine, factory, farm and white home be without labor. Let every shop close its doors." With emotions running so high on both...