Word: pretoria
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...other hand, a fair number of sanctions do remain. In the U.S., federal restrictions imposed before 1986 are still in force, including the virtual American veto against loans to Pretoria by such bodies as the International Monetary Fund. No fewer than 133 laws restricting or penalizing companies that do business with South Africa are still on the books in 26 states, 22 counties and 85 cities...
...have much choice, since South Africa had fulfilled all the conditions required by Congress. There is room for argument about at least one of those conditions: the release of all political prisoners. The African National Congress (A.N.C.) says some 850 remain in jail, while the government in Pretoria insists only criminals remain...
...will try to talk Commonwealth countries into doing the same at their annual conference in October. The International Olympic Committee last week decided to let South African athletes compete in future games, ending a 21-year ban that was especially devastating to the sports-mad country. For its part, Pretoria signed the nuclear nonproliferation treaty, a significant move since it is thought to have developed the ability to make atom bombs...
...chromium and platinum, for which South Africa is the major world source. The products that the West would not buy, chiefly coal and fruit, found new markets in Asia, the Middle East and, of all places, black Africa. Nearly every African country south of the Sahara trades with Pretoria...
...movement has also bungled its relations with Inkatha, which may have as many as 1 million members. While congress leaders consider the Zulu chief a sellout for serving as chief minister of the Pretoria-created KwaZulu homeland, Mandela indicated that he wished to meet with Buthelezi. He was apparently overruled by hard-liners. Last August, as Buthelezi's followers sought to expand their influence beyond Inkatha's stronghold of Natal, fierce clashes erupted in the black townships around Johannesburg. By the time Mandela finally sat down in an attempt to make peace with Buthelezi last January, more than...