Word: pretoria
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Whatever tampering is done with theeducational system, as long as apartheid is inplace, the system can never amount to anythingexcept to make the regime in Pretoria look betterthan it is," Mnumza continued. In addition, Mnumzasaid, education interns would damage any studentand teacher boycotts of the government-controlledschools...
...Sunday--The revolution begins in Pretoria...
...prosecutorial cave-in may breathe new vitality into the United Democratic Front, a multiracial coalition of more than 600 community organizations that claims 1.5 million supporters across South Africa. The organization has become the principal voice of dissent against Pretoria's policies of racial separation. Still, the government of State President P.W. Botha last week reminded its opponents it will not tolerate even the most peaceful protest. In Cape Town, some 200 demonstrators gathered on a beachfront carrying lighted candles, singing and chanting. After warning them that the vigil was illegal, police dispersed the crowd with plastic whips...
More than 40,000 people packed the soccer stadium in Mamelodi, a black township outside Pretoria, to attend a funeral rally for twelve blacks killed during a clash with police three weeks ago. Diplomats from the U.S. and ten other Western countries were among those who had come to pay their respects to the dead, including a two-month-old baby who suffocated from tear-gas fumes. While police looked on from a hill above the stadium, the mourners sang freedom songs, waved the black, green and gold flag of the outlawed African National Congress and cheered speeches by both...
...Pretoria has seemed reluctant to move against her. But last week's speech represented perhaps her boldest act, and could prompt the government to retaliate. Two days after her speech, Mandela, reportedly suffering from exhaustion and the recurrence of a minor heart problem, was admitted to a private nursing home. It seemed unlikely that the government would act before she was released...