Word: pretoria
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hold their own without the organized support of the local population. Accordingly, since last year they have assigned troopers to civilian duties, ranging from teaching to livestock breeding. And they have mounted a strong effort to recruit local cadre men for military and paramilitary operations. The aim: a Pretoria-controlled South West Africa Territory Force of seven "ethnic" battalions, each comprising 800 to 1,000 indigenous recruits. At least four such outfits already exist...
...thousand men haven't got a hope in hell of monitoring a ceasefire. Before the last South African soldier was back across the border, SWAPO would be in Namibia." However, crossing the Angolan border at will, as South Africa has been doing, could backfire. Third World frustration over Pretoria's failure to make concessions at Geneva has generated renewed demands by black African nations like oil-rich Nigeria for international sanctions against South Africa. The call for an embargo by the U.N. Security Council is likely to get widespread support. The South Africans hope to get a more...
...summing up the lessons learned in that conflict: "When you are twelve, use your knowledge against the English boys that age. At eighteen, use it against the young men in college. At thirty, against the Hog-genheimers [Jewish mining barons] in Johannesburg. At fifty, against the government people in Pretoria. And when you're an old man like me, keep using...
...even with Nujoma's concessions, the South African-led Namibian delegation rejected the cease-fire proposal on the ground that the U.N. was biased toward SWAPO. Dirk Mudge, chairman of the Democratic Turnhalle Alliance, the multiracial coalition that currently dominates Namibia's Pretoria-backed administration, contended that a cease-fire now would be premature. In fact, what really worried Mudge and the South Africans was that SWAPO would defeat the Turnhalle Alliance in a free and fair election...
Says Buthelezi: "KwaZulu will never seek independence of the kind offered by Pretoria. The homelands policy is futile and meaningless. We will opt to remain South Africans and gain the right to participate in the government of this country...