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...Nyerere of Tanzania, Seretse Khama of Botswana and Samora Machel of Mozambique warned that unless real progress was made "within weeks, not months," they would remove restraints from black Rhodesian guerrillas anxious to use their territories as a base for operations. Even South Africa's Prime Minister John Vorster, a longtime backer of Smith, urged Salisbury to grant majority rule to Rhodesia's 5.8 million blacks (v. 273,000 whites); the alternative, he said, would be "too ghastly to contemplate...
...forces in Angola surely casts some doubt on American strength and resolve-but how seriously? World reaction is divided, and opinion depends on proximity to the war-torn former Portuguese territory. In Africa, a number of moderate black leaders-as well as South Africa's Prime Minister John Vorster-are clearly anguished. In general, the moderates are less concerned about direct Russian influence and bases in Angola than about the prospect that potential Soviet client states, beefed up with Russian military and economic aid, might be tempted to interfere in the domestic affairs of their neighbors-with or without...
Propaganda Weapon. Prime Minister John Vorster described television as a mixed blessing and warned that "slanted news" would be corrected. Opposition newspapers feared that any abuses might come from the government, which has sole control over the network. "The mere presentation of the world at large is bound to have a far-reaching effect," editorialized the Johannesburg Rand Daily Mail. But so powerful a visual medium, it said, could also become a propaganda weapon "particularly when, as in South Africa, it is so much under the thumb of the political party in power...
...most pressure was put on South Africa. The fact that at least 1,000 South African regulars and mercenaries are fighting alongside UNITA and the F.N.L.A. is the main reason such key countries as Nigeria and Ghana have recognized the M.P.L.A. Washington told Prime Minister John Vorster, in effect, that he was defeating his own purpose by staying involved. In a New Year's message to his country, Vorster appeared to reject the pleas. In fact, he called for a bigger Western involvement in Angola "not only in the diplomatic but in all other fields." Defense Minister Piet...
...BANTUSTAN SYSTEM is maintained by the pass laws, which give the government full control over the movement of the African laborers. Africans who cause too much trouble outside the homeland can simply be "endorsed" out of white areas, and they have no choice but to obey. Vorster told Bantustan chiefs who objected last year to the pass laws that "principle" of the pass law is not negotiable, for they are the most effective method the government has to keep African unrest sub-dued. About 600,000 blacks are now prosecuted annually under the pass laws, receiving ten days...