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...Botha responded to the furor over the Van den Bergs, who now live in a mixed-race trailer camp, by saying that housing rules would have to be reviewed. That sort of equivocation did not impress voters on either side of the race question. Said Frederik van Zyl Slabbert, chairman of the antiapartheid Progressive Federal Party: "Ambiguous reform will lose support from both the left and the right...
...Bishop Desmond Tutu dismissed the latest proposals as a "crumb" and as "piecemeal reform, grudgingly given." Still, in the South African context, last week's announcements represented some progress. Welcoming the government's shift on its citizenship policy, the leader of the white parliamentary opposition, Dr. Frederik Van Zyl Slabbert, declared, "It signals the end of the apartheid dream but poses the challenge of doing away with the apartheid reality...
...same time the moderate Progressive Federal Party (P.F.P.) attracted voters who regard Botha's cautious moves as a series of improvised compromises that will neither placate blacks nor ultimately prevent armed confrontation with them. P.F.P. Leader Frederick van Zyl Slabbert called Botha "an illusionary figure of reform" and his promises "vague mumbo jumbo." The P.F.P. gained nine seats in the new parliament, bringing its total to 26. They also dealt the Nationalists their worst single blow, defeating Minister of Industries Dawie de Villiers in his Cape Town constituency. It was the first time an incumbent National Party minister...
...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...