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...Port Elizabeth police hinted to the local press that the Azanian People's Organization, or Azapo, a militant group which excludes whites, may have been behind Goniwe's slaying. But both Azapo and the U.D.F. have rejected that theory. Derrick Swartz, a U.D.F. leader in the Eastern Cape, pointed out that given Goniwe's determination not to stop the car, an Azapo hit squad would have had to force the vehicle off the road. The car, however, showed no damage that might indicate a chase or a struggle...
Johannesburg Bureau Chief Bruce Nelan took up his post only two months ago. As part of his orientation he traveled to Cape Town to meet with the leaders of the new tricameral Parliament. In addition, he, Hawthorne and Photographer Peter Jordan drove through the mountains and valleys of KwaZulu, or Zululand, in the eastern part of the country, to interview its chief minister, Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi. Nelan also spoke with government officials in Johannesburg and Pretoria, the administrative capital...
...most significant response was Washington's. Until recently, the Reagan Administration had justified its conciliatory policy toward Pretoria in geopolitical terms: the strategic importance of the sealanes around the Cape of Good Hope and of South Africa as a producer of precious metals and an anti-Communist bastion. Last week's statements from Washington not only omitted all mention of such considerations, but were delivered in a tougher tone than in the past. Secretary of State George Shultz described apartheid as "an affront to everything we believe in" and viewed South Africa's present policies as doomed. "The only question...
Behind Botha's obdurate stand is the tacit admission that his tentative reforms over the past two years have been less than successful. His white constituents, the majority of them Afrikaners, whose African roots go back to the landing of Dutch settlers in Cape Town in 1652, are more split than ever. A verligte (enlightened) faction, which forms a significant part of Botha's ruling National Party, is aware that some form of political accommodation with blacks must come eventually. A verkrampte (literally "cramped," or hard-line) breakaway group is determined to keep things as they are, if by sjambok...
...Cape Town, seat of the legislature, colored and Indian M.P.s shout their disapproval of apartheid within the new tricameral Parliament. In Johannesburg, black and white traffic cops wear the same black serge, receive the same salary and hand out the same tickets. Until ten years ago, television was not permitted by a government that regarded it as immoral and dangerously subversive. Today whites watch The A Team and The Bill Cosby Show and buy Mr. T dolls for their children...