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Actually, even Afrikaner politicians have been proclaiming for some time that change is coming. It was in 1979 that Piet Koornhof, then Minister of Cooperation and Development, rather boldly announced to an audience in Washington, "Apartheid as you came to know it is dead." And none other than the crusty, old (now 71) Botha declared that the "aspirations of urban blacks and the fulfillment of them must form part of the strategy for the protection of everyone in South Africa...
...Leader Andrew Boraine, son of an opposition member of parliament. At the same time, nearly 600 people have been detained without trial, some of them for as long as seven months. 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...
...recent trip to the U.S., your Minister of Cooperation and Development, Piet Koornhof, said that apartheid is dead. What does that mean...
...Koornhof offers no immediate solutions, but he does offer hope insomuch as he represents a new breed of Afrikaaner politician. He is willing to admit the inequities and hardships blacks suffer in South Africa and is devoted to finding a solution, albeit an Afrikaaner solution, to South Africa's racial troubles. Dr. Koornhof, Prime Minister P.W. Botha, and the Foreign Minister Pik Botha, are "verligte" i.e. liberal Afrikaaners. Dr. Treurnicht, a former chairman of the Broederbond, is "verkrampte" i.e. conservative. The question of South Africa's future will depend to a large extent on the political struggle between these factions...
...spoke with Dr. Koornhof at his Pretoria home in late July...