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...agitate a black man who has to live on $14 a week?" Labor Minister Marais Viljoen promised that the government would introduce legislation to "encourage" white employers to make greater use of "works committees" to discuss problems with black employees. In a surprisingly conciliatory statement, Prime Minister John Vorster strongly implied that employers had better cooperate. "They should not view their workers merely as units working so many hours a day," he declared, "but also as human beings with a soul...
...criticism mounted, Prime Minister John Vorster told Parliament: "If the police had not acted in this way, I would have been disappointed in them." His Minister of Police, S. Lourens Muller, declared that the demonstrations were "in line with Communist aims of bringing about a change in the South African way of life." The trouble was really caused, he implied, by students from "Northern Ireland, Britain, Rhodesia, Zambia and Mauritius...
Speaking to a gathering of Afrikaners, Prime Minister John Vorster took the Boerehaat (Boer hate) campaign a step further. "Because of the things that threaten us," he cried, "we need a militant youth." Then he quoted a line from an old Boer war song, "I've always been afraid the English soldiers would catch me," adding: "If there's any catching to be done, we will do it, and the time has now come...
...leaders. At last week's special election in Oudtshoorn, an Afrikaner stronghold 278 miles east of Cape Town, the National Party candidate defeated both his United Party opponent and a right-wing Afrikaner splinter candidate by an unusually wide margin. "An inspiring test of strength," beamed Prime Minister Vorster. Opposition leaders, though, insisted that Oudtshoorn-which is best known in South Africa for the ostriches it raises-was hardly an index of the national mood. "The Afrikaners here will get a shock," said one United Party politician, "when they, like their ostriches, take their heads out of the sand...
...considering even the most minor relaxations, Prime Minister John Vorster must still take into account his Nationalist Party's dwindling but vocal right wing, known as the verkramptes (cramped ones). Vorster, 55, a cautious pragmatist during his five years in office, has already adopted a successful "outward-looking" foreign policy of providing trade and aid to black African states. Last month he declared: "Your government is now entering an era of the most practical politics South Africa has ever known. The time of speeches, blueprints and fancy flights has gone." The statement could have meant anything, but aides insisted...