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South Africa's future is no less uncertain. By the end of 1978, when black governments are supposed to be in place in both Zimbabwe and Namibia, South Africa will be surrounded by black-ruled independent states, whose politics and willingness to coexist with white power in Pretoria are still to be determined. How much can Vorster salvage of the South African way of life? The right to remain in Africa, certainly: all parties acknowledge that, with their 300-year tradition in southern Africa, the Afrikaners and their latter-day countrymen, the English-speaking South Africans, have as much right...
...fact, Vorster seems to have decided to sacrifice the Smith regime in Rhodesia and accept independence for Namibia in a gamble that these moves will buy time for him to put into effect Pretoria's own strategy for survival. This does not involve greater integration of the blacks in the country's economic and political life; on the contrary, Vorster's strategy seems to be to complete the original South African blueprint for "separate development" of the races known as apartheid (Afrikaans for "separateness"). Hoping to perpetuate the political power of the whites, who form only 17% of the South...
...Western-backed rivals with the help of $300 million in Soviet-supplied arms and 12,000 Cuban soldiers. Neto, now the hardest-lining of the front-line five, continues to reject a peaceful solution for Rhodesia and harbors 3,000 SWAPO guerrillas across his 800-mile common border with Namibia...
Late Sunday evening, Smith left for home, saying he would "report favorably" on the plan Kissinger had outlined. The Secretary stayed on with Vorster for another two hours, shifting the subject to Namibia (South West Africa), the onetime League of Nations mandate that South Africa has ruled since 1920. Some important details on Namibia remained unsettled, but Kissinger still hopes to find a way to bring the South West African Peoples' Organization (SWAPO), a leading political movement, into the territory's constitutional conference, thereby ending SWAPO's guerrilla activity before Namibia becomes independent...
...front-line presidents recognize that Kissinger is willing to sacrifice the marginal Rhodesia for the sake of consolidating the much more critical position of South Africa. But they also realize that it is possible at this point to gain a great deal for blacks in Rhodesia and Namibia by negotiation, while the situation within South Africa is considerably less hopeful for the moment. And despite the conservative expectations of Kissinger and Vorster's strategy, the dismantling of white minority regimes on its borders cannot help but encourage renewed struggle on the part of those on whom the overthrow of apartheid...