Word: pretoria
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nonetheless, South Africa's true intentions may still be in doubt. Just when Pretoria seemed in rare harmony with its black foes, Pik Botha last week unexpectedly offered a totally new proposal calling for a comprehensive conference aimed at resolving at once all the complex interlocking disputes over Namibia. The initiative has caused deep apprehension among other negotiating parties, who strongly suspect that the plan amounts to a South African ploy to sidestep U.N. supervision of Namibian independence. Caught by surprise, nervous State Department officials are unsure whether South Africa means to sabotage the peace effort or to advance...
...inside the country. "Peace and apartheid colonialism," seethed the African National Congress in response to the Mozambique accord, "are inherently mutually exclusive." But others point out that reduced tensions can only encourage accommodation by the white minority. U.S. officials, for their part, claim that Washington maintains constant pressure on Pretoria to end apartheid. Said a top State Department official: "We have been credible and firm in insisting that reform must come." In the end, the two objectives of internal and external peace may be inseparably linked. -By Kenneth W. Banta. Reported by Marsh Clark/Komatipoort and Johanna McGeary/Washington
Relations with South Africa could provide one of the sharpest areas of conflict between the House and Senate. The House bill would bar U.S. citizens and companies from making new investments in South Africa because of its apartheid policy and would forbid American banks to lend money to the Pretoria government. In addition, the House voted to require all American businesses in South Africa employing more than 20 people to desegregate their work places, recognize labor unions, and offer equal pay to blacks and whites who do the same work...
...addition, more than half of the goods passing through the port of Maputo come from the white-ruled republic. Another way for Mozambique to rake in South African rands would be by reopening its doors to tourism, a subject discussed in Pretoria and Maputo last week. Since Mozambique won independence in 1975, wealthy South Africans have been denied access to its big-game hunting, deep-sea fishing and summer houses overlooking...
...showed just how stagnant and how strenuous the evenly matched tug of war has become. Last August UNITA forces, reportedly supported by South African air strikes, captured the strategic town of Cangamba in southern Angola. During the following two months, SWAPO guerrillas swarmed through northern Namibia. Early last month Pretoria decided to strike back. In a memorable display of ill-timing, the South Africans chose to suggest terms for a trial disengagement in Angola on the same day that they had, according to Angola, killed dozens of civilians in a bombing attack. Their offer was turned down. Several days later...