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...from the coup d'état in Lisbon last April and the subsequent decision by the new Portuguese government to grant independence to Mozambique next year and to Angola not long thereafter. Faced with the loss of the Portuguese colonies as buffer states, South African Prime Minister John Vorster pressed forward with a plan to achieve a détente between black-and white-ruled Africa. In this effort he was joined, though with quite different motives, by one of black Africa's most responsible leaders, Zambian President Kenneth Kaunda...
Last October Kaunda sent a truce offer to Pretoria. His terms: that Vorster pressure Smith into holding a new constitutional conference aimed at obtaining African majority rule in Rhodesia; and that South Africa itself accept majority (meaning black) rule in South West Africa (Namibia), the U.N. territory South Africa has run since 1920. Kaunda wants aid and more trade with South Africa, and wants South African grain not only for Zambia but for other Central African states that currently suffer from a serious food shortage...
...retains U.N. membership, but its delegation will not be permitted to take seats, speak, make proposals or vote. Although the ruling extends only through the current session, which ends Dec. 17, South Africa's opponents have threatened to repeat the move in future sessions unless Prime Minister John Vorster's government agrees to relinquish its control over Namibia (South West Africa), end its military support of Rhodesia's white supremacist government, and abandon its own apartheid policies. Vorster has indicated his willingness to accommodate world opinion on all three issues. "If South Africa is given the chance...
Botha's remarkably open-minded speech was an indication of South Africa's worries about its future among Africa's increasingly nationalistic black states. The day before the ambassador made his hour-long speech at the U.N., Prime Minister John Vorster told the South African Senate that the price of racial confrontation was "too high for southern Africa to pay." He appealed for cooperation among countries of the area, and offered financial as well as technical aid to any African nation that requested it. Vorster's proposal evoked a favorable response from Zambian President Kenneth Kaunda...
...slight change of policy on the issue of South-West Africa. South Africa has administered the area under a League of Nations mandate since 1920, but the U.N. revoked the mandate in 1966, renamed the area Namibia, and is training nationals in exile for eventual independence. Until last week Vorster had maintained that self-determination for the region would take another ten years. Now Botha concedes that "this stage may be reached considerably sooner...