Word: pretoria
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seat National Assembly, leaving control in the hands of. a South African administrator-general. The reason offered for the D.T.A. defection was, as critics of South Africa have maintained all along, that the local government was no more than a façade for decisions actually taken in Pretoria, South Africa's capital...
...with the ultimate aim of destabilizing the Mugabe government. South Africa dismissed the charge as ridiculous, but diplomats in Harare are not sure. Says a Western official: "It's not in South Africa's interest to have an unstable Zimbabwe, but I don't know if Pretoria agrees. They certainly don't like Mugabe, a Marxist who they think is a wolf in sheep's clothing...
...dawn announcement in Pretoria, General Constand Viljoen, chief of the South African Defense Force, explained that the raid, unofficially named "Operation Blanket," had been a pre-emptive strike against A.N.C. militants who had come to Lesotho over the past few months. According to Viljoen, the A.N.C. members were planning attacks in South Africa against political leaders in the black "homelands" of Transkei and Ciskei. South African defense officials displayed a rocket launcher, rifles and some grenades of Communist-bloc origin that they said had been captured in the raid...
...Minister of Foreign Affairs, Charles D. Molapo, labeled the attack "murder" and asked for an urgent meeting of the U.N. Security Council. Given the landlocked country's economic dependence on South Africa, however, the raid was not likely to lead to a break in relations with Pretoria...
President Bok likes to portray divestiture as an impractical gesture, favored only by college students and other romantics. Yet the legislature's move is practical as well as symbolic. It serves notice to Pretoria that apartheid must go. And it encourages more than 30 American firms to reconsider both the moral and financial wisdom of maintaining businesses in South Africa. If the Bay State's action reveals a romantic outlook, it is a romanticism that the University would be wise to adopt...