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...caucus quickly elected Frederik W. de Klerk, 52, to replace Botha. Party leader of the populous Transvaal province and Education Minister in Botha's Cabinet, De Klerk has been heir apparent for the past seven years. He is a conservative and an apartheid advocate, a younger, more articulate version of P.W. Botha and, like him, happy with a glacial pace of "reform" that nonetheless maintains minority white control...
...said Willem de Klerk, editor of Die Transvaler, the country's influential Afrikaans-language newspaper. And that was the reaction of many white South Africans, as they faced the all but inevitable prospect that the United Nations this week would adopt a mandatory arms embargo against their country for the first time. The expected U.N. resolution-perhaps the first in a series that could lead to economic sanctions as well-was a direct response to the Pretoria government's latest wave of repression. A week earlier more than 50 black leaders had been placed under detention...
Last week in Parliament, suave Interior Minister Johannes de Klerk blandly denied Colored leaders' charges that the government is deliberately siphoning off the light-skinned in order to increase South Africa's white population as a bulwark against the huge black majority. De Klerk explained that in issuing white identity cards to the 300 Cape families, his officials were only trying to "act humanely" and give borderline cases "the benefit of the doubt...
...jail on charges of insubordination, said the Post (and after the disaster were quietly released). Eighteen apparently persisted and found a side exit, for the Government Department of Mines last week announced that 18 natives, previously listed as dead, had all turned up alive. Minister of Mines Johannes de Klerk promised a full investigation of the Post's charges...
Outraged leaders of the nation's potent Federated Chamber of Industries bore down on Pretoria to protest De Klerk's interference with their business. De Klerk backed down and postponed enforcement of his order, but the garment workers' union was not satisfied. Last week it announced that some 12,000 Negro garment workers in the for-whites-only classification will "stay away from their jobs" (Negroes are not allowed to "strike" in South Africa) to drive home a hard fact seldom faced by Strydom's fanatics: a strict application of apartheid would paralyze South Africa...