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Meanwhile, Japan plunged into the sanctions debate. During a one-hour meeting in Tokyo between South African Foreign Minister Roelof ("Pik") Botha and his Japanese counterpart, Tadashi Kuranari, Botha was told that Japan, one of South Africa's main trading partners, may apply punitive new sanctions unless Pretoria moves quickly to end apartheid...
...Supreme Court of Natal struck at key provisions of the nationwide state of emergency that is * now entering its fourth month. The court voided a measure empowering the police commissioner to prohibit any activity that he thought might endanger public order. It was under this provision that Pretoria announced its ban on mass funerals. Although the ruling applies only to the province of Natal, lawyers in the Transvaal are now pondering whether they could win a similar judgment, which would permit future gatherings to be held in Soweto...
...some $11.4 billion in state funds invested in companies that do business in South Africa. Though as many as 119 universities, 19 other states and scores of cities have opted for or leaned toward divestiture, California's is by far the largest portfolio to be steered away from Pretoria...
...June, when the Pretoria government declared the national state of emergency, white officials predicted that the bloodshed that had wracked the country sporadically for almost two years would soon end. But last week's violence in Soweto appeared to demonstrate instead that the situation is taking a new and even more dangerous turn. It has deep roots in the townships where many of South Africa's 24 million blacks live, increasingly angry and frustrated not only at a repressive white government but at any of their neighbors who seem to tolerate...
...South Africans. At the same time, UNITA, the U.S.-backed guerrilla movement that seeks to topple the Angolan regime, claimed responsibility for the attacks. The Reagan Administration laid the aggression to South Africa. "We do not condone any South African raid into Angola," said a State Department spokesman. In Pretoria, South African officials denied that any of their troops were involved but did not respond to the U.S. scolding. They preferred to let the spotlight remain on Durban, where Botha's performance, after all, was just what many white South Africans had wanted to hear...