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...Pretoria's empty victory...
...past two years South Africa has spent at least $1 billion on economic and military aid in an effort to ensure that Namibia's first independent government will be one that can be lived with comfortably. South Africa last week staged elections in Namibia?not under U.N. auspices, as Pretoria had previously promised, but on its own terms. (See pictures of South Africa...
...from witnesses that the Information Department had illegally financed the start of a pro-government Johannesburg daily, the Citizen, and allegations of personal abuse of the fund amounting to millions of dollars. To angry opposition members of Parliament, the judge's ouster amounted to an attempted cover-up of Pretoria's "Watergate." In protest, they refused to accept appointments to a special bipartisan investigative body. Indeed, there is intense pressure on Botha within his own party not to suppress such evidence...
...were also involved. Robert Smit and his wife Jeanne-Cora were discovered in their home near Johannesburg, fatally wounded by guns and knives. Bloody slogans had been scrawled across the walls of the house, apparently to disguise the killings as the work of terrorists or a religious cult. The Pretoria rumor mill now has it that Smit, a financier by profession, had uncovered evidence of irregularities in foreign exchange transactions, and was murdered in order to keep him quiet...
...Middelburg, a small town outside Pretoria, two small boys run up to wash the windows of the car, hoping to get a few cents for their efforts. They wipe the window furiously with a cloth only slightly more ragged than their clothes; this five cents means a lot to them. Times are bad now for black South Africans. Unemployment has reached an all-time high, though no one has exact figures; and there is no minimum wage for most of the jobs blacks can do. 80 per cent of black South Africans fall below the poverty datum line, the absolute...