Word: lesotho
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...government of State President P.W. Botha has ordered reprisal raids into countries that harbor guerrillas; negotiated security arrangements with Mozambique and Swaziland, designed to clear out A.N.C. fighters; and even stage-managed a coup in Lesotho, aimed at dislodging A.N.C. bases. After a series of raids last May, the President told Parliament, "South Africa has the capacity and the will to break the A.N.C. I give fair warning that we fully intend doing...
...blues, '50s style. The music on the tape turned out to be mbaqanga, or "township jive," from the streets of Soweto. Simon became obsessed. In January 1985, he took off for South Africa and began to record with Soweto's Boyoyo Boys, Tao Ea Matsekha (a group from Lesotho), and General M.D. Shirinda and the Gaza Sisters. "It was very interesting," Simon reports, "but very strange...
...much of the world, Tutu, 54, symbolizes the battle against apartheid. From his new position, he will be the spiritual leader of 1.3 million South Africans, both black and white, and 700,000 more Anglicans in neighboring Botswana, Mozambique, Namibia, Swaziland and Lesotho. With that larger pulpit, he is likely to become even more controversial...
...form of official blackmail, the Pretoria government has been threatening to take reprisals against its black neighboring countries if sanctions get too severe. It is in a solid position to do so. Nearly all foreign trade for Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland passes through South Africa, as well as 90% of Zimbabwe's. Some 350,000 foreign workers are legally employed in South Africa, almost 85% of them in mining, and they could be fired. Many of its neighbors are dependent on South Africa for electricity, which could be cut. Pretoria, however, rarely mentions the benefits it gains from these relations...
...threatened that it might retaliate against sanctions by expelling the 350,000 contract laborers from neighboring black states who hold down jobs within the country. Since each migrant worker supports an estimated six people at home, roughly 2 million black Africans would be quickly stripped of their livelihood. Tiny Lesotho, to take one example, would not only be flooded with 140,000 returning workers, equivalent to more than 75% of its wage-labor force, but would also be deprived of their salary remittances, which currently exceed the country's entire gross domestic product. Earlier this year South Africa showed...