Word: michiel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...despite Vorster's campaign thunderbolts, there are signs that the Prime Minister wants to moderate both the leadership and direction of his party. One hint of a future change: the resignation last week of Michiel C. Botha as Minister of Bantu Administration. An unbending Afrikaner, Botha was responsible for enforcing the education, housing and labor laws that cover the country's blacks. He was a main target of black wrath during last year's violent riots and in the current strike of teachers and students that has paralyzed the school system in Soweto...
...actual coronation occurred at the moment when South Africa's Minister of Bantu Administration, Michiel Botha, presented letters of appointment to Prince Zwelithini, whose father, Chief Cyprian, died 18 months ago. Standing stiffly in a plain black suit with a leopard-skin sash draped incongruously across it, the Prince wept with emotion. Then the crowd roared a traditional tribute: "Bay-ete wenawendhlovu [Hail, noble elephant]," and Zwelithini took his place on a throne of scented tamboetie wood with arm rests carved in the shape of lions...