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...standards of South Africa's all-white National Party, Prime Minister Pieter Willem Botha, 66, is a moderate. In his 18th-floor office in Cape Town, he talked with TIME Johannesburg Bureau Chief Marsh Clark about the political battle raging within Afrikanerdom. When Clark joked that the Prime Minister, who describes himself as a conservative, though not an "embalmed" one, bore no visible scars from his recent skirmishes, Botha replied: "I suppose I am like a crayfish-always in hot water." Excerpts from the interview...
...recipient Joseph Thloloe spent more than two years in jail in the late 1970s as a result of his reporting on race-related labor problems for several major Johannesburg newspapers...
...Geneva in January 1981, the South African government has agreed to preliminary Western proposals that would eventually allow majority black rule in the territory. Still, for South Africa, the stakes are high. South African Foreign Minister Roelof ("Pik") Botha was interviewed by TIME Chief of Correspondents Richard L. Duncan, Johannesburg Bureau Chief Marsh Clark and Reporter Peter Hawthorne in Cape Town about the prospects of a lasting settlement. Excerpts from their conversation...
...Among those arrested: 18 union and student leaders and, embarrassingly enough for the government, the niece of Pieter Koornhof, Pretoria's Minister for Race Relations. Last week the government moved again, slapping a five-year banning order on David Johnson, president of the black students' society at Johannesburg's University of the Witwatersrand. Protested one angry student: "No words can adequately express the revulsion we feel at such state action...
DIVORCED. Christiaan Barnard, 59, South African surgeon who performed the world's first successful human heart transplant; and Barbara Barnard, 31, boutique owner and daughter of a Johannesburg industrialist; after twelve years of marriage, two sons; in Cape Town. She received custody of the children...