Word: pretoria
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Your matching feet heard at Deak-Perera headquarters in New York, Washington. DC and in Pretoria the capital of South African, "national Free South Africa Coalition leader Roger Wilkins told the demonstrators, who chanted slogans such as "Freedom yes, apartheid no, Krugerrand sales have...
...riots that resulted in he murder of scores of South African Blacks only prove the impotence of what Republicans euphemistically call "constructive engagement." There seemed to be some hope for improvement last year when a group of conservative congressmen lobbied the Administration to take a stronger stand against Pretoria. But when the State Department whimpered its "deep regret" last week over the arrest of six leaders of the nonviolent United Democratic Front, it was again clear that the more things change, the more they stay the same...
...homelands," and 2) the detention without trial of black leaders. The practices, said the President, "can comfort only those whose vision of South Africa's future is one of polarization, violence and the final extinction of any hope for a peaceful democratic government." Reagan asked the government in Pretoria to broaden "the constructive changes of recent years ... to address the aspirations of all South Africans...
While the Reagan Administration may have yielded a bit in the face of growing opposition to "constructive engagement," South Africa has not moved an inch. In Pretoria, Foreign Minister Roelof ("Pik") Botha restated his government's defiance of outside pressure. "South Africa will not allow itself to be dictated to by foreign elements, especially protesters and radical actions of pressure groups overseas," he declared. Said Executive President P.W. Botha: "South Africa will make its own decisions...
...what appeared to be a minor concession, the Pretoria government last week released five of eleven black leaders who were detained without charges in the past three months. The remaining six, however, are expected to be charged under the country's Internal Security Act with subversion, treason or promotion of an unlawful organization. The maximum penalty: a life sentence or death. In a further indication of its tough mood, the government last week arrested two of three anti-apartheid activists as they left the British consulate in Durban after seeking sanctuary in the building for 91 days. They...