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SOUTH AFRICA has received a good deal of attention in the western press this year for various moves that seem to be evidence of an approaching end to its policy of apartheid. The role of South African Prime Minister B.J. Vorster in bringing the African leaders of Rhodesia together with representatives of Ian Smith's regime prompted Zambia's president, Kenneth Kaunda, to call him a "voice of reason in Southern Africa," and last week South Africa announced that--at some point in the near future--more jobs will be open to blacks, who are now kept...
...stinkwood. Its purpose was to set a time and place for negotiations that would pave the way for black majority rule. It floundered because Smith and most of his 273,000 fellow white Rhodesians do not want to yield power. In a surprise development, South African Prime Minister John Vorster and Zambian President Kenneth Kaunda arrived at the falls-Vorster to put pressure on the whites and Kaunda on the blacks to reach a compromise. Both men were concerned that otherwise a savage civil war would erupt and spill into their countries. As one summit participant...
Next Move. As he left for a lunch break, Smith told reporters: "All the problems are on the other side." Later he groused: "I believed I was talking to normal people, but these chaps are a little unnormal at the moment." Shortly before midnight a glowering John Vorster stormed out of the railway car and left for home. He was soon followed by Kenneth Kaunda. As the meeting adjourned at midnight, Smith seemed positively elated by the prospect of its failure...
...country much longer. The guerrilla war being waged by impatient blacks is expected to intensify later this year. The black rulers of newly independent Mozambique are in a position to close their ports to Rhodesian trade whenever they choose, and the pressure from South Africa is bound to continue. Vorster, convinced of the need for an accommodation with black Africa, has already removed 2,000 South African paramilitary policemen from Rhodesia. He has also succeeded in persuading South African cigarette-makers to reduce their purchases of Rhodesian tobacco. If he decides to pull out the Alouette helicopters used in Rhodesia...
...Joshua Nkomo, who is known as the most moderate A.N.C. faction leader and the one with the widest political support within Rhodesia. If Smith could work out even a token power-sharing scheme with Nkomo, he just might be able to split the A.N.C. and ease the pressure from Vorster and Kaunda...