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...hire immediately 200 new workers for the launch of an upcoming model. But that often radically changes later. In Port Elizabeth, which once styled itself the "Detroit of South Africa," employment nose- dived in 1985 when Ford sold its majority share to local owners, who then shifted operations to Pretoria. Last week many Port Elizabethans doubted GM's assurances that no jobs will be lost when the automaker leaves. Like American workers whose firms have been swallowed up in mergers, white South Africans have reason to view disinvestment with concern...
Anti-South African activists around the world were quick to accuse Pretoria. In Johannesburg police fired tear gas into a crowd of 250 students, most of them black, who blamed their government for Machel's death. Zambian President Kenneth Kaunda broke into tears when he heard the news and declared, "I accuse the South Africans openly of involvement until they are proved innocent." In Zimbabwe, thousands of youths stormed through downtown Harare, attacking whites on the streets, smashing windows and besieging South African, Malawian and U.S. offices. The worst damage was at the South African Airways ticket center, whose staff...
...from Portugal in 1975, had almost personally been holding Mozambique together in recent years. Once a doctrinaire Marxist, he showed more flexibility as his troubles built up. He signed an accord in 1984 with South Africa under which Mozambique promised to expel African National Congress guerrillas, who are fighting Pretoria, in return for South Africa's pledge to stop supporting Renamo. Lately Machel had strayed from Communist orthodoxy and turned to the West for new investment...
...theUniversity's treasurer said at press conferenceearlier this month. Harvard does not considerdivestment of South Africa-linked investments asthe goal of its policy. It will keep such holdingsas long as the companies meet certain standards inthe treatment of Black workers and if they don'tsell strategic goods to the Pretoria government...
...killed 69 unarmed blacks attending a political protest in Sharpeville, a black township 35 miles from Johannesburg. Shortly thereafter, leadership of the organization passed to two of the organization's young comers, Mandela and Tambo, who were law partners and longtime congress members. The A.N.C. was banned by the Pretoria government and began carrying out armed attacks from underground. Mandela and most other A.N.C. leaders were eventually captured and sentenced to life imprisonment for sabotage. Tambo escaped because he had been sent abroad to open a headquarters and search for funds...