Word: pretoria
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mugabe reportedly has been forced by worsening economic conditions to seek a renewal of Zimbabwe's valuable preferential trade agreement with the apartheid regime in Pretoria. Financial aid is also coming from the U.S. Despite the increasingly repressive atmosphere in Salisbury, the U.S. Congress in December approved $75 million in economic assistance for Zimbabwe. That is the first installment of $225 million the Reagan Administration pledged at a multinational aid conference last March in Salisbury. Mugabe has also received a much needed vote of confidence from the Administration. In a letter sent Dec. 17 to the Senate and House...
...atmosphere in the Pretoria courtroom last week was hardly serious. The five defendants, decked out in colorful beach shirts and khakis, smiled and waved to security policemen as they appeared briefly in the dock to be freed on bail. They had good reason to be happy. Despite international anger, the South African government opted to deal lightly, almost casually, with their crime: the hijacking of an Air India jetliner the previous week, after an abortive attempt to overthrow the socialist government of Seychelles...
...pact between seven major industrialized nations that would cut air flights to countries that harbor hijackers. As expected, the loudest protests came from Seychelles President Albert René. After forlornly requesting extradition of the raiders, he asked the United Nations to conduct an inquiry and charged again that Pretoria had organized the coup. That accusation was buttressed by a Durban newspaper report that several of the mercenaries were South African policemen...
STILL, SOUTH AFRICA need not settle for the morally reprehensible status quo of apartheid. The West could encourage such reform. Gradually and peacefully implementing Black rule is far more sensible. It could negotiate with Pretoria to provide economic support in return for South African adoption of a restricted franchise based on educational criteria--with free education available to all. In this scenario--utopian as it may be--more and more Blacks would gradually gain voting rights; eventually, they would take over the reins of government...
...harvest, will be able to get only a fraction of the crops to ports in South Africa without the engines. Says a U.S. diplomat in Salisbury: "I used to think that South Africa believed that it was in its best interests to have a stable Zimbabwe. Now I think Pretoria may have decided it's best to have a Zimbabwe that's in trouble so it can point to another black majority country that has failed...