Word: pretoria
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...population of 1.4 million and an average annual income of less than $500 a year. The resort's slot machines, roulette wheels and befeathered chorus girls attract as many as 50,000 visitors a day, mostly well-to-do whites who make the two-hour drive from Pretoria and Johannesburg...
Since then, however, the government in Pretoria has significantly tightened the enforcement of apartheid laws and repressed any signs of dissent. In 1966, the IDAF was banned and has been forced to smuggle aid into the country through what Gomes calls "cloak and dagger means...
...success is measured solely in terms of getting U.S. companies to withdraw from South Africa or to stop selling strategic goods to Pretoria, the anti-investment activists have not fared well. Fewer than five companies have credited the debate with playing a role in their decision to sell off operations in the country, and few companies have gone beyond the U.S. Commerce Department restrictions on sales to the South African government. Moreover, available evidence suggests that the debate has not limited business's decisions to expand in the region. In the 15 years from 1966 to 1981, for example...
...recent months there have also been indications that some participants in the debate may be moving in a new direction. Since 1979, a series of legislative and policy changes by Pretoria have created new opportunities as well as new obstacles to companies acting as a progressive force in South Africa. On the one hand, the government has begun to seek the counsel of the business community and has repealed many of the regulations blocking Black training and advancement and trade union organization. Yet, at the same time. Pretoria has proposed harsh new laws restricting even more the movement...
...case was a textbook illustration of the absurdity of South Africa's rigid apartheid policy. In a field on the outskirts of Pretoria, a black worker came upon a two-week-old infant wrapped in a blanket, her head covered with a paper bag. The abandoned baby was taken to a nearby hospital, where nurses named her Lize...