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...uncertain. By the end of 1978, when black governments are supposed to be in place in both Zimbabwe and Namibia, South Africa will be surrounded by black-ruled independent states, whose politics and willingness to coexist with white power in Pretoria are still to be determined. How much can Vorster salvage of the South African way of life? The right to remain in Africa, certainly: all parties acknowledge that, with their 300-year tradition in southern Africa, the Afrikaners and their latter-day countrymen, the English-speaking South Africans, have as much right to the land as the Bantu peoples...
...Vorster also preserve apartheid ? or "plural democracy," as some of his colleagues have taken to calling it? Over the long run, can he preserve minority rule? That seems unlikely: it would be, in fact, an open invitation to interference from his neighbors or from any foreign power that happened to fancy a little low-risk mischiefmaking. Geopolitical predictions in Africa have always been risky; now the realities have all but reached the Cape of Good Hope. If, by the end of 1978, Vorster has failed to make a significant step toward ending his country's discrimination against...
...entitled to wonder if Prime Minister Vorster, in his conversation with Secretary Kissinger, has suggested giving America back to the Indians. Or if he has mentioned that Americans, in the past, dealt very efficiently with the native population in order to ensure that majority rule on their part would never become a problem...
...event, Smith's decision marked one of the more impressive feats of U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who had laid the groundwork this summer during two meetings in Europe with South Africa's Prime Minister John Vorster. Under the plan, the Rhodesian regime agreed to set up an interim government to pave the way for majority rule. It will include a council of state headed by a white, possibly Smith himself, and a council of ministers to be led by a black "First Minister." In return for accepting the plan, the Rhodesian whites were promised that steps...
Late Sunday evening, Smith left for home, saying he would "report favorably" on the plan Kissinger had outlined. The Secretary stayed on with Vorster for another two hours, shifting the subject to Namibia (South West Africa), the onetime League of Nations mandate that South Africa has ruled since 1920. Some important details on Namibia remained unsettled, but Kissinger still hopes to find a way to bring the South West African Peoples' Organization (SWAPO), a leading political movement, into the territory's constitutional conference, thereby ending SWAPO's guerrilla activity before Namibia becomes independent...