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...dealing with the threat of intensified military and economic harassment, Rhodesia can expect little help from South Africa, which is aware of the pragmatic necessity of reckoning with the new black states. Prune Minister John Vorster has repeatedly implied that he would prefer a stable black government in Rhodesia to an unstable white...
...refused to support last month's abortive revolt by right-wing white settlers against Mozambique's black government and quietly restrained mercenaries from going there. Vorster pointedly offered only temporary refuge to fleeing Mozambique whites, most of whom will not be allowed to resettle in South Africa...
...least know who is telling them what, so that if they're interested, they can go and check the guy out after the film. If this were a film about South Africa, it would make a big difference if one speaker was Helen Suzman and another Prime Minister Vorster. Political personalities like Kenan and Harkavi are not just ordinary Israelis. They both have very heavy political and ideological stakes in what happens in Israel. Why aren't we at least given a clue as to what interests they may be trying to promote...
Though the Progressives' gains marked a slight shift away from racism, it was not nearly enough to inhibit Vorster's plans to continue segregating most of South Africa's blacks in crowded Bantustans. The dreary settlements have little hope of achieving economic independence. Black tribal land was originally promised in 1936, but much acreage still has not been turned over. Even if it were, black chiefs say, the total area would still be inadequate. Vorster claims that he cannot grant more land because the 1936 act ties his hands. "Nonsense," retorts Gatsha Buthelezi, 45, chief minister...
...were so depressed by the results that they said South Africans had opted for a "one-party state." Their reaction, however, may have been at least partly inspired by the embarrassment they suffered at the hands of both the bold Progressives, who stole the opposition's thunder, and Vorster, who showed unseemly scorn for their party on election day. Happening upon the Prime Minister at a polling booth, Vorster's United Party opponent, Elias Olivier, approached him with a greeting. In response, the jut-jawed apostle of kragdadigheid jeered: "Go play marbles, young man"-and he refused even...