Word: pretoria
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...creation of these quasi-independent states is a basic part of the Pretoria government's long-range survival plan for South African whites. The policy of "separate development" calls for dividing the country's 18.6 million blacks and 4.3 million whites into ten states, nine for blacks and one for whites. The whites' state will encompass 87% of South Africa's territory, including all 17 major cities...
...what the blacks want for Pretoria is not majority rule, but black rule. They're not against dictatorship; they just want...
...result was a personal victory for John Vorster. He had called the election and dominated the campaign, capitalizing on the U.N.'s new mandatory arms embargo against South Africa and other recent signs that both Britain and the U.S. had decided to take a firmer line with Pretoria from now on. South Africans joked that Vorster and his party had run against President Jimmy Carter-and had won big. As they had always done before, the Afrikaners united in a time of crisis. And this time, they brought record numbers of English-speaking whites along with them...
Meanwhile, the inquest into the unexplained death of Black Consciousness Leader Stephen Biko ended in Pretoria. At first the government maintained that Biko died in prison three months ago from the effects of a hunger strike. Later, security police claimed he had hit his head against a wall while scuffling angrily with interrogators. Summarizing his case last week, the eloquent attorney for Biko's family, Sydney Kentridge, asserted that the security police had inexcusably disregarded Stephen Biko's rights while he was in their custody. "There is indisputable evidence," Kentridge said, "that on the morning of Sept...
...ruling follows testimony from witness after witness showing that Biko's death could have been prevented at several different points. After the beating, doctors warned he had suffered brain damage. Nevertheless, he was driven, naked, 700 miles to Pretoria; somewhere on that trip he died...