Word: pretoria
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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...
...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...
...publicly admitted the economic failures in the new black states, and he has apparently given up the notion that the homelands can soon be made truly independent. Consequently, the government is drawing up plans for eight "economic development areas" along the borders between South Africa and the homelands. Pretoria has already established a $133 million fund to foster small businesses in these zones. On paper at least, homeland officials are to share in the decisions that will determine the speed and direction of development...
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...