Word: pretoria
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fact, there is little reliable information of this sort. The Pretoria government has made it a capital offense for any South African to publically support divestment, corporate disinvestment or any economic sanctions against the country. So foreigners must rely on hints from Blacks leaders that the people they claim they represent support the withdrawl of foreign corporations...
Most of the deaths occurred during two fusillades by police. The worst confrontation took place on a soccer field in the nominally independent Bophuthatswana homeland, north of Pretoria, where more than 5,000 people had gathered to protest the arrest and detention of local youths. Local police claimed that when they ordered the crowd to disperse, the demonstrators retaliated by pelting them with stones and Molotov cocktails. Panicky officers opened fire, and in the melee that followed, eleven protesters were killed, 100 wounded and as many as 2,000 arrested...
...will to keep power; 40 percent of employable Afrikaaners work for the government and thus have a direct stake in upholding apartheid. The South African economy can withstand an economic siege, and plentiful reserves of gold, diamonds, and strategic metals ensure that someone, somewhere, will always do business with Pretoria. Writes John Kane-Berman, director of the Institute of Race Relations and a liberal opponent of the government: "This government is entrenched well into the next century; that is a view, not a wish...
Bishop Desmond M. Tutu this week called for immediate punitive economic sanctions against South Africa, in an apparent move to urge Western governments to pressure Pretoria into liberalizing its racial policies, The New York Times reported yesterday...
...beginning of 1980, a South African computer industry survey showed that U.S.-owned corporations sold 74 percent of all the computers in the country...Pretoria's battle to preserve white control in South Africa and Namibia is being fought with foreign-made computers as well as mines and artillery." (NARMIC/American Friends Service Committee. "Automating Apartheid...