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SOUTH AFRICA Of course he wore it in the rainbow nation! It may be summer there, but the sweater for all seasons reappeared on Jan. 11 for a visit with President Thabo Mbeki in Pretoria...
...public-safety amendment to widen the extensive powers of the police in controlling political unrest. The new measure will give Law-and-Order Minister Louis Le Grange the authority, currently reserved for the President, to declare a state of emergency in troubled areas. At the same time, Pretoria has promised to ease construction regulations and make more land available for black housing...
...government decreed that the United Democratic Front, a multiracial antiapartheid group with perhaps 2 million supporters, will henceforth be barred from receiving overseas aid. Pretoria accuses the U.D.F., whose leading members include Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Imprisoned African Nationalist Nelson Mandela, of being a mouthpiece for the African National Congress and the South African Communist Party, both of which are banned. In fact, the U.D.F. has become the recognized platform for a wide range of black and liberal-white opinions. About half its present funds, which cover the legal costs of hundreds of officials and supporters...
...Pretoria also squared off against Mozambique, South Africa's Marxist neighbor to the northeast, which it accuses of harboring A.N.C. guerrillas. Mozambique, in turn, blames South Africa for supporting terrorist activity against its government. Last week Pretoria announced that no more permits would be issued for Mozambican migrants to work in South Africa, and that permits for the 95,000 Mozambicans employed there would not be renewed when they expired. That could prove a serious blow to Mozambique's poverty-stricken economy; remittances from these workers are an important source of revenue...
...Botha government may focus additional wrath on the white dissenters in its midst. According to the magazine Financial Mail, Finance Minister Barend du Plessis recently told its Washington correspondent that "when the time comes," Pretoria will "know what to do" with South African businessmen who have been strenuously pressing for racial reform...