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...Zimbabwe election has hardened Botha's stance on Namibia (South West Africa). South Africa continues to govern the territory in spite of repeated United Nations demands for self-determination. Mugabe's victory has left white-ruled South Africa more isolated than ever behind a ring of less-than-friendly black states; consequently, there now seems to be little chance that the Pretoria government will agree to internationally supervised elections in Namibia. Instead, South Africa-backed parties in the huge territory may be tempted to go ahead with their own version of unilateral independence. If that happens Namibia might...
...identical: breezy, modern four-story structures, awash with portraits of Marx and Lenin. Classrooms are brightly colored, equipped with the latest audiovisual aids, and neatly arranged with rows of sleek, polished-wood tables. Each nationality represented on the island has its own school. The curriculums vary somewhat. Students from Namibia (Southwest Africa), for example, are taught English grammar, while those from Angola and Mozambique learn Portuguese. Cuban instructors normally teach academic subjects like math or biology, but the teaching of social sciences and ideology is reserved for men and women teachers imported from the students' homelands. "They are here...
...have discussion groups and exchanges of views," says Bernard Kamwi, a Namibian teacher. "We talk about building a just society, how to eradicate the capitalist system, how to give the toiling masses of Namibia a say in what is happening...
Botha's reforms are motivated by a conviction that majority-rule settlements in Namibia and Zimbabwe Rhodesia will present South Africa with an "adapt or die" situation. Urged by top military advisers, he has ordered a sweeping review of the restrictive laws, known as "petty apartheid," in an attempt to stave off an overwhelming onslaught from black African nations combined with mass rebellion by the country's 20 million blacks. To the howls of hard-line Afrikaners, the Prime Minister has proposed the "improvement" of laws prohibiting interracial sex and marriage. In order to create new jobs...
...While refusing to adopt the policy for itself, South Africa supports one-man, one-vote majority rule in Zimbabwe Rhodesia and even Namibia. Why is your own situation in South Africa so different...