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You say, "Black Africa is determined that majority rule must come to the country." Since when has majority rule been an African concern? Black Africa is half a continent of military juntas, lifetime presidents and coconut kingdoms.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 12, 1977 | 12/12/1977 | See Source »

It is ludicrous to expect that black Africans should willingly accept a hostile, racially alien nation on their continent, regardless of "historic rights." After all, would we tolerate such an entity in our own midst? In light of our own history of racial repression, not to mention the attempted eradication...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 12, 1977 | 12/12/1977 | See Source »

When Ambassador Andrew Young and his friends in the Eastern intellectual Establishment begin to raise as much hell about present inhuman conditions for young blacks in our own country, and only then will I buy their sincerity about being concerned for the rights of blacks in South Africa. Economic and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 12, 1977 | 12/12/1977 | See Source »

Isolated in the heartland of the Dark Continent, the Afrikaners were relatively untouched by the liberalizing forces that swept Europe and America in the 19th century. Nor were their ranks infused with the new blood of Dutch immigrants from what had long ceased to be a homeland across the seas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: The Defiant White Tribe | 11/21/1977 | See Source »

Vorster need not be too worried about he U.N.'s mandatory arms embargo. Eventually, the embargo could hurt South Africa by depriving it of sophisticated new weaponry and technology. But as of today, South Africa's 41,000-man army is one of the best trained and best equipped on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: The Defiant White Tribe | 11/21/1977 | See Source »

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