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Three days later, however, Nkomo fled. After an all-night drive in a Land Rover along bush roads, he reached the border of Botswana, where he sought temporary refuge. At week's end, Nkomo flew by private chartered aircraft to Johannesburg, where he boarded a British Airways flight to London. There was no way of telling whether his exile would prove to be temporary or permanent. In Zimbabwe, the government detained his wife and three other members of his family. Later, authorities announced that Nkomo's wife had been released on unspecified "humanitarian grounds," although the other family...
Smith defended his remarks and claimed that his relations with the government have been strained ever since he told Mugabe in a private meeting 18 months ago that he would openly oppose one-party rule in Zimbabwe. "I'm not looking for trouble," he told TIME Johannesburg Bureau Chief Marsh Clark last week. "Surely the greater the violation of human rights, the greater is the need for me to speak...
Menachem Begin and Ariel Sharon for their attempt to eradicate the P.L.O., perpetrators of international terrorism. M. Roy Brenner Johannesburg...
...Namibian independence by joining France, Britain, West Germany and Canada in negotiations, while remaining friendly to South Africa, appeared to be on the verge of success. Now, despite Washington's assertions to the contrary, the initiative appears to have virtually collapsed. Says John Barratt, director-general of the Johannesburg-based South African Institute of International Affairs: "In the future, there is little doubt that this will be seen as one of the greatest lost opportunities...
...consider joining the Conservatives in a right-wing alliance that would try to defeat the National Party in the parliamentary elections expected later this year. Marais confidently claimed that together the two parties could win roughly 100 of the 165 parliamentary seats. At the least, say political analysts in Johannesburg, a new right-wing alliance could end the National Party's control of South African politics...