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...announcement should have been an occasion for joy. For months, antiapartheid activists and foreign governments, local business leaders and international bankers have pressed State President P.W. Botha to end the state of emergency that he imposed last July 21. Last week, declaring that the level of violence that provoked the restrictions had "improved," Botha...
...Botha's commitment to cutting back the tight security measures that have seriously polarized his country seemed even less assured. Before the government released more than 300 detainees still held under the emergency provisions, he said he would seek new legislation that would "enable the authorities to deal with continued incidents of unrest." The State President also set an Aug. 1 deadline to begin implementation of a United Nations independence plan for the South Africa-controlled territory of South West Africa, or Namibia. Botha made it clear, however, that the plan is still contingent on the withdrawal of Cuban troops...
South Africa has suffered 18 months of riots and other violent protests, during which a total of some 1,200 people have died. The unrest began after the Botha government pushed through constitutional changes that created separate legislative chambers for whites, coloreds and Indians, while excluding blacks. Police and other security forces, who already enjoyed ample authority to conduct arbitrary searches, seizures and arrests under the country's normally severe security laws, were granted even more extensive powers. Nearly 8,000 people, about 2,000 of them under the age of 16, were arrested under these emergency provisions...
...this context, the Administration's belligerent policy widens the immoral marriage of convenience between Botha and Savimbi into a bizarre menage a trois. If Savimbi can get what he wants, southern Africa will be faced with a radical state far more reminiscent of the Khmer Rouge than any form of democracy, and history will forever associate Crocker and Reagan with not one, but two, of the biggest foreign-policy debacles since the Sudetenland...
Home Minister Stoffel Botha said that, in shooting and broadcasting film of the funeral Wednesday in the black township of Alexandra, the network acted in "flagrant contempt" of a court verdict upholding a police ban on cameras at the scene. CBS and other networks had asked the court to cancel the prohibition...