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Since then, however, the government in Pretoria has significantly tightened the enforcement of apartheid laws and repressed any signs of dissent. In 1966, the IDAF was banned and has been forced to smuggle aid into the country through what Gomes calls "cloak and dagger means...
...success is measured solely in terms of getting U.S. companies to withdraw from South Africa or to stop selling strategic goods to Pretoria, the anti-investment activists have not fared well. Fewer than five companies have credited the debate with playing a role in their decision to sell off operations in the country, and few companies have gone beyond the U.S. Commerce Department restrictions on sales to the South African government. Moreover, available evidence suggests that the debate has not limited business's decisions to expand in the region. In the 15 years from 1966 to 1981, for example...
...foray lasted only a few minutes, but Pretoria claimed that more than 60 people were killed, including 41 members of the outlawed African National Congress (A.N.C.), the black nationalist movement that last week belatedly admitted responsibility for the Pretoria bombing. Mozambique officials, however, reported that only six died in the raid over Maputo, five of them civilians. Correspondents who flew into Mozambique to view the aftermath of the air strike generally agreed. But they also came across black South African refugees, some of whom were apparently A.N.C. members. Said one angry survivor: "They shot us in South Africa, and they...
...South Africa, the raid marked the first time its Impalas had been used to raid suspected A.N.C. strongholds. For the A.N.C., the Pretoria bomb blast that provoked the raid seemed to signal the start of an ugly new phase in its struggle against apartheid, South Africa's official policy of racial discrimination...
...more than 80 acts of sabotage since 1981, the A.N.C. has caused millions of dollars in damage but only eight deaths. The Pretoria bombing, however, which took place in a crowded commercial district at the end of the workday, seemed designed to cause as many casualties as possible. "The Southern Africa conflict has just moved up a ratchet," said Peter Vale of the respected South African Institute of International Affairs in Johannesburg. Said the Rev. Desmond Tutu, the black Anglican bishop of Johannesburg: "One act merely provokes another, and we are probably getting into a spiral of violence we cannot...