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...some sort of power sharing. Beyond that, the Americans restated the long-standing U.S. view that apartheid must be abandoned, South Africa should forsake its policy of creating "independent" homelands for blacks and instead should consider itself a unified country and all its people should enjoy the rights of citizenship. The South Africans were told that there would be no change in the policy of "constructive engagement," the soft-sell diplomacy that the U.S. has practiced toward Pretoria since 1981. But they were also told that the Reagan Administration, like the Botha government, was under some political pressure...
...from in a way that made it sound as if her answer would be very important to him. "Well, uh, Beacon Hill," she said humbly. Then she brightened. "But my aunt lives in Minneapolis!" Keillor gave the disadvantaged woman a reassuring pat on the shoulder, conferring honorary Midwestern citizenship...
...reformer. He had inherited the apartheid system as defined by the late Hendrik Verwoerd, an elaborate concept that provided not only for racial segregation but for the creation of a group of separate tribal "homelands," in which all of the country's blacks would eventually have theoretical citizenship, even though most would continue to live where they always had, in the black townships of white-ruled South Africa. By this curious bit of legerdemain, the Afrikaners hoped to keep in check the potential political power of blacks, who now number 23.9 million, compared with the whites' 4.9 million...
...about: the preservation of white political power. Botha conceded that ways would have to be found to allow blacks to live legally and permanently in the townships they have long inhabited. But he also reaffirmed his commitment to the homelands concept. Nor did he ever speak of full citizenship for blacks or accept the idea of a house in Parliament for blacks. Most important, Botha made it clear that the principle of one man, one vote was not negotiable under any circumstances...
Despite his acceptance of the need for compromise, Buthelezi is by no means Pretoria's pawn. He has threatened force if necessary to resist the white government's efforts to grant KwaZulu "independence," a move that would deprive the Zulus of their South African citizenship as well as of a nationwide political role. In 1981 he refused a government offer to build an administration building for KwaZulu in Ulundi, the capital, fearing that acceptance would indebt him to Pretoria. Instead, the homeland saved $18 million from tax revenues and constructed a building adorned with murals and carved wooden doors that...