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...Roelof ("Pik") Botha at a five-hour meeting in Vienna on Aug. 10; the Minister gave the same message to British and West German representatives. A few U.S. news organizations, including TIME, were given background briefings on the general nature and importance of the upcoming Durban address. Officials in Pretoria emphasized the likelihood that the government would have to pay a political price among its more conservative supporters for the impending announcement. As a National Party strategist put it, "This is going to cost us, and we know...
...concessions, Botha seemed more interested in broadcasting defiance than in stressing the changes that his government would countenance. "I am not prepared to lead white South Africans and other minority groups on a road to abdication and suicide," he declared. He issued a blunt warning to foreign governments pressing Pretoria to change. Said he: "Don't push...
...kind of banter that only the most verkrampte, or hard-line, Afrikaner would find amusing. But when Andries Treurnicht and Jaap Marais, the leaders of two of South Africa's right-wing political parties, shared a platform in Pretoria earlier this year to protest the government's repeal of laws banning interracial sex and marriage, their racist exchanges produced waves of laughter from the conservative audience...
...clashes between police and black protesters may have stopped the flow of violent images from South Africa's battered townships, but it has not stanched the flow of blood. While the average number of deaths each day dropped from 3.4 to fewer than two in the weeks immediately following Pretoria's imposition of media restraints on Nov. 2, the average daily toll last week rose above five. The statistic was a sharp challenge to the government's contention that without television and camera crews present to incite publicity-hungry blacks to violent heroics, the disturbances would quiet down. As unrest...
...victims of urban crime as frequently as whites, also take up residence in these communities, where different races co-exist side by side. In the one where I live, residents have experienced virtually no crime and enjoy the freedom of their streets around the clock. Frederic Marais Pretoria Your generally well-balanced article erred in the juxtaposition of a photo of a particularly lowly shelter with an exclusive suburban mansion: black shelter, white mansion. Life here is just not that simplistic, and it does no one any good to view it in those terms. There are the dreadfully poor...