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Zulu Chief Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi, one of the country's more moderate black leaders, dismissed the Port Elizabeth speech as "bitterly disappointing." Dr. Nthato Motlana, a senior civic leader in Soweto, South Africa's largest black township, branded Botha's remarks an "absolute waste of time." Leaders of the outlawed African National Congress, delivering their assessment from Zambia, called the proposals "meaningless amendments of the apartheid system," while the Sowetan, South Africa's largest black daily, editorialized: "The unified South Africa only reflects another glorified system of homelands . . . (Apartheid) cannot be dressed up in false colors. We are not that...
...last week Bok said a personal plea to the University Treasurer from a Black South African leader played a role in the Corporation's decision. According to Bok, a man identified only as Dr. Motlana, a member of the Soweto Committee of 10, urged George Putnam '49 to approve a controversial 1979 Citibank loan...
Putnam told Motlana that he "would be glad to speak up on behalf" of the $250-million loan, part of which was earmarked for construction of a private hospital in Soweto...
...simplicity's sake we have labelled our questions, Us, Dr. Motlana's answers Dr. M., and his son's comments...
...Motlana, you're chairman of the Soweto Committee of Ten. How did the committee come about? What is its purpose? Dr. M.: After the riots in 1976, the youth got together and said we must do something to organize our own affairs. They approached me and asked me to come to their organizational meeting, where I was elected chairman. We have no specific goals, we just want an impartial voice for the community. We want to arrange our own affairs and not have someone from the West Rand Administration (government agency) arrange them...