Word: slabbert
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...eyes of reformers, however, Botha's government has been long on proposals and short on action. "It's the same old story of promises, promises, promises," said Opposition Leader Frederik van Zyl Slabbert last week. "History is not written about politicians' good intentions." As it is, the Botha government it self has managed to undermine many of its stated good intentions. The future success of its liberalizing policies, for example, is said to rest with a new 60-member President's Council, which is supposed to initiate the constitutional changes that may lead to parliamentary representation...
...three-year house arrests) of three prominent black journalists, and the creation of a parliamentary commission to investigate the press. The latest crackdown provoked an immediate outcry. "An invitation to confrontation and disaster," said South Africa Society of Journalists President John Allen. Added Opposition Leader Dr. Fredrik Van Zyl Slabbert: "The reality of black feelings, demands, aspirations and reaction will not disappear because people cannot read about them. They will simply be communicated underground." Even the staunchly pro-National Party Die Transvaler objected...