Word: pretoria
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...support from Rep. Thomas P. O'Neill Jr. (D-Mass.), Sen. Paul E. Tsongas (D-Mass.), and several other members of Congress. Brutus is by no means confident that the State Department will rule in his favor. The increasing friendliness between the Reagan Administration and the regime in Pretoria makes Brutus and his supporters uneasy. As a staff member at TransAfrica, a Black-American lobbying group, says, many view the attempt to deport Brutus "as another symbol of the Administration's growing closeness with South Africa...
Brutus himself continually emphasizes signs of growing closeness between Pretoria and Washington. He considers it ironic that INS is attempting to deport him at the same time the State Department has relaxed rules that prohibited South African military personnel from visiting the United States. And he believes that the Reagan Administration's desire to befriend South Africa has led to loosened restrictions on sales of American products and technology to the South African police and military...
Mugabe also claimed that Nkomo held two secret meetings shortly after the 1980 elections with South African officials to seek Pretoria's support for a coup attempt against Mugabe. The South Africans, charged Mugabe, refused Nkomo's request at both meetings. The Prime Minister also maintained that Nkomo had met with "other parties" to plan a strategy to overthrow his government. Among them: Member of Parliament Wally Stuttaford, 64, who has been detained by the Mugabe government since December on suspicion of having approached ZAPU to plot a joint coup attempt...
Even so, a Cuban withdrawal from Angola would considerably ease Pretoria's fears of a Soviet-dominated axis of black states stretching from Mozambique on the Indian Ocean to Namibia on the Atlantic. The South African government recently made its most positive move toward Namibian independence so far by agreeing to Western-backed constitutional principles and a complicated set of procedures for elections, which would make up the first phase of a settlement. SWAPO, however, has balked at the complicated electoral rules, designed to protect the rights of Namibia's 100,000 whites (out of a total population...
...Andrew Boraine, son of an opposition member of parliament. At the same time, nearly 600 people have been detained without trial, some of them for as long as seven months. Among those arrested: 18 union and student leaders and, embarrassingly enough for the government, the niece of Pieter Koornhof, Pretoria's Minister for Race Relations. Last week the government moved again, slapping a five-year banning order on David Johnson, president of the black students' society at Johannesburg's University of the Witwatersrand. Protested one angry student: "No words can adequately express the revulsion we feel...