Word: pretoria
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...planned execution. The Soviet Union, the European Community, the 49-nation Commonwealth of Britain and the U.N. Security Council, among others, had also asked that Moloise's life be spared. But Botha refused all appeals for clemency, and last week, shortly after dawn, Moloise went to the gallows at Pretoria Central Prison. In Washington, White House Spokesman Larry Speakes told reporters: "We hoped that this action would not be taken...
Last spring, the club attempted to counter a groundswell of anti-apartheid activism by holding a private reception for a representative of the Pretoria government...
...last minute out of pique, balking at the pressure implicit in the advance publicity. Another possibility is that Botha failed to realize how important the speech had become in the eyes of the international community. South Africa is often so inept at public relations that one Western diplomat in Pretoria jokes that there is a secret government office called "the ministry of bad timing...
...struck a blow at the precarious detente that exists between white- ruled South Africa and six neighboring black-governed countries: Angola, Botswana, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Earlier in the week, the leaders of those so-called frontline states had issued a joint statement urging increased international pressure against Pretoria's apartheid policies, including the use of economic sanctions. The leaders admitted that they were concerned about the potentially disastrous impact of such sanctions on their own economies, which depend heavily on South Africa's. Nonetheless, they said they saw no other way of bringing about peaceful change in that...
...South African cities. In Johannesburg, blacks rioted in response to a false rumor that ailing Black Leader Nelson Mandela, 67, had died in Pollsmoor prison. In Cape Town, 150 students, parents and teachers were arrested for trying to open schools shut down by the government since Sept. 6. Near Pretoria, black demonstrators clashed with police, following the funeral of a four-year-old girl killed by security forces...