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But how long will it continue to work? Never before has South Africa, the last firm bastion of white rule on a predominantly black continent, been so threatened. Nearby Angola and Mozambique, once Portuguese colonial buffer states, have become independent, leftist, black-ruled nations committed to helping the struggle against...
Thus foreign pressure is not in contention in the election campaign. What is at stake, ultimately, is whether the government will be able to carry on with the Afrikaners' grand scheme of apartheid?also known as "separate development" and more recently as "plural democracy." The purpose of apartheid is the...
There is no better tonic for a President in trouble than a tour of the horizon aboard Air Force One. Red-carpet welcomes and cheering crowds in far-off places boost his morale and make him a world statesman, not just a politician, to the folks back home. Jimmy Carter...
In its foreign affairs, the Soviet Union also has a flawed record. Since World War II, a dozen countries have come under Communist rule. The mystique of socialism - the dominant ideology of the Third World - has given the Russians close ties there. But somehow the Russians have trouble enlarging their...
By and large, the poverty of the continent lies not in her 'poor' natural resources but in her people and the African character. Until we are ready to face the challenges, strangers will ever remain to exploit our continent. According to an old African proverb: the natives who defecate in...