Word: tswana
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...same evening, Botha appeared on television channels that broadcast in the Sotho, Tswana, Xhosa and Zulu languages and told their predominantly black viewers, "The time has come for us South Africans to join together to negotiate the structures that we want." From its headquarters in neighboring Zambia, however, the A.N.C. dismissed Botha's overtures, which it said demonstrated that he was "committed to the maintenance of white-minority domination...
...occupy only about 15% of the land. Moreover, the lines have been carefully drawn to leave most of South Africa's industrial areas and its diamond and gold mines in the hands of the 4.5 million whites. The three homelands that have already declared their "independence" - Transkei, Bophutha Tswana and Venda-are still wards of Pretoria, dependent on South Africa for more than two-thirds of their income...