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...only in his reference to the word majority, a term usually shunned in deference to white fears of one day being overwhelmed by blacks. Said the Rev. Allan Boesak, a leading opponent of apartheid: "No one in his position has said that for years." On the other hand, Pretoria declared its "grave dissatisfaction" with the Perkins piece...
Deliberately provocative or not, the Leadership article was the latest step in a closely watched diplomatic performance. As a black representing a conservative Republican Administration in white-ruled South Africa, Perkins received a generally negative reception when he landed in Pretoria late last year after spending eight years dealing with black African affairs for the State Department. His appointment was regarded by many whites as a symbolic snub and by blacks as insulting tokenism. Perkins has responded by cultivating a low profile, then discarding it at strategic intervals to issue carefully chosen shots...
Perkins' one act of overt protest against Pretoria has been to attend a Cape Town church service convened to denounce a ban on appeals for the release of detainees, many of them children, held without charge for security reasons. Invited with other envoys by the foreign ministry to a stern lecture on the need for law-and-order, the ambassador, as usual, had no comment. As with his silence on last week's article about South Africa's future, he had already made his statement...
...expert on South Africa" (p. 19), so perhaps he will allow some questions of his new agenda. The Natal Indaba, as he knows, does not represent most residents of Natal; in fact, none of the negotiators were elected by anyone. Buthelezi was appointed to his post by the Pretoria government and receives "a not-ungenerous salary from the South African state." (11) The original idea for a Kwazulu-Natal indaba came from the South African Sugar Association, seeking to protect its sugar estates from falling under the communal land tenure that prevails on the Kwazulu bantustan. It was seconded...
...Matanzima dynasty has long been an embarrassment to South Africa, and not just because of its alleged corruption. When Pretoria rebuffed his claim to South African territory bordering on Transkei, Kaiser briefly committed the diplomatic farce of breaking off "relations" with the government that had granted Transkei its dubious independence. Last February Transkei-trained commandos were accused by authorities in Ciskei of attempting to assassinate their President, Lennox Sebe. The incident led to a virtual state of war between Pretoria's two pseudostate offspring...