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Blood River makes no attempt to whitewash the repressive regimes in Pretoria. But it is one of the few volumes that attempt to understand the descendants of settlers who were themselves the despised and disenfranchised people of the veld. American Journalist Barbara Villet, whose photographer husband grew up in a suburb of Cape Town, starts her journey in modern South Africa, then begins "trekking away from time" back to the 17th century, when a group of Dutch Calvinists sets out for Cape Town. The tiny white minority see themselves as a new chosen people, driven by religious fervor and economic...
...Reagan Administration, already linked to the South African government, may be about to ally itself openly with the regime against the ANC. In September, CIA chief William Casey met with South African leaders in Pretoria, where he was urged to help them force neighboring countries such as Mozambique and Angola to end their support for the ANC. The recent U.S.-backed billion-dollar loan to South African will help it enforce a hastily planned series of internal repression policies...
...decision ignores South Africa's unique position in the world community. In 1974, the United Nations General Assembly voted Pretoria out of that body to protest apartheid and the illegal occupation of neighboring Namibia. While other totalitarian states can count on sympathy from at least a few other nations, South Africa is almost totally ostracized...
...percent of the population, own 86 percent of the land and exclude Blacks from voting and most public places. What is less obvious at first glance is that it takes a reasonably sound economy to maintain repression at home and oppression abroad. The IMI money will indeed help Pretoria correct its payment deficit That in turn will allow the white minority to "keep Blacks in their place" and continue a massive arms build-up that will insure dominance over Namibia...
...Reagan Administration is willing to ignore all this in order to court Pretoria. South Africa's abundant natural resources and key strategic position on the African continent suffice to give what appears to be national interest preeminence over morals. But all Washington will succeed in doing is propping up for a while longer a university condemned regime that must eventually fall. Such a policy merits only contempt...