Word: swaziland
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...been resettled over the past 20 years. Of the 450,000 blacks who toil in South Africa's gold mines, 163,000 come from the impoverished homelands, where work is scarce and the pay pitiful. An additional 195,000 come from the neighboring countries of Mozambique, Malawi, Lesotho and Swaziland, where jobs are equally rare. Leaving their families behind, the miners spend most of the year living in cramped dormitories and working for wages that average $50 a week. Come mid-December, tens of thousands stream out of the camps and head home for the holidays, jamming bus stations, train...
...Pretoria government's retrenchment against change. Last Thursday the government announced new press restrictions that destroyed any pretense of a free press, and on Friday the police carried out a self-proclaimed "swoop," rounding up not only opposition activists, but also reporters and even two Swiss citizens in neighboring Swaziland...
...really seemed too much of a coincidence. On Oct. 6, six South African soldiers were injured by a land mine near the spot where the borders of South Africa, Mozambique and Swaziland converge. General Magnus Malan, South Africa's Defense Minister, quickly issued a stern message to Mozambican President Samora Machel. "Terror feeds on itself," said Malan. "It eventually turns on its hosts." Just ten days after that menacing admonition, a plane carrying Machel, 53, strayed over the South African border near the site of the land-mine explosion and crashed, killing the President and 33 others...
...government of State President P.W. Botha has ordered reprisal raids into countries that harbor guerrillas; negotiated security arrangements with Mozambique and Swaziland, designed to clear out A.N.C. fighters; and even stage-managed a coup in Lesotho, aimed at dislodging A.N.C. bases. After a series of raids last May, the President told Parliament, "South Africa has the capacity and the will to break the A.N.C. I give fair warning that we fully intend doing...
...much of the world, Tutu, 54, symbolizes the battle against apartheid. From his new position, he will be the spiritual leader of 1.3 million South Africans, both black and white, and 700,000 more Anglicans in neighboring Botswana, Mozambique, Namibia, Swaziland and Lesotho. With that larger pulpit, he is likely to become even more controversial...