Word: pretoria
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...engineer the total separation of the races, the homelands policy is now regarded even by the government as a practical impossibility because of South Africa's dependence on a black work force. But the legacy of the plan, in the form of four artificial black "states" set up by Pretoria between 1976 and 1981 and six homelands still considered part of the parent country, is taking a disconcerting and costly toll on white South Africa...
...Matanzima dynasty has long been an embarrassment to South Africa, and not just because of its alleged corruption. When Pretoria rebuffed his claim to South African territory bordering on Transkei, Kaiser briefly committed the diplomatic farce of breaking off "relations" with the government that had granted Transkei its dubious independence. Last February Transkei-trained commandos were accused by authorities in Ciskei of attempting to assassinate their President, Lennox Sebe. The incident led to a virtual state of war between Pretoria's two pseudostate offspring...
...other spelled out areas of trade and finance that would no longer be permitted until those goals were attained, including new U.S. investments in South Africa and the importation of that country's agricultural products, coal, iron, uranium, textiles and military equipment. The clear intent was to give Pretoria a choice: either make major changes in a repugnant social policy or suffer painful economic consequences for not doing...
...government's hostility to the 75-year-old A.N.C. stems in part from that organization's attempts to undermine the apartheid system through a campaign of sporadic terrorism. Now there is increasing evidence that Pretoria is engaged in a campaign of retaliation against the A.N.C.'s leadership. Last month Cassius Make, a member of the A.N.C.'s national executive council who was visiting Swaziland, was gunned down by assassins. According to A.N.C. officials, Make was the eighth congress member or sympathizer to be killed in Swaziland this year; an additional six have been abducted to South Africa. In the most...
...Pretoria, Foreign Minister Roelof ("Pik") Botha declared that South Africa could not "allow itself to be threatened in this way." The Reagan Administration took milder exception to Sullivan's announcement, saying that "it is now more important than ever for U.S. firms to stay and work for an end of apartheid." Several U.S. companies suggested they would continue to follow the Sullivan Principles. Asked whether the guidelines could endure without Sullivan, the clergyman quipped, "Well, they kept the Ten Commandments without Moses...