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...confounded, but ultimately pleased to have shaken his hand. As one government official observed at a state banquet in Banda's honor, 'Suddenly South Africa isn't the same any more.' " For South Africa, the Banda visit was a milestone in Prime Minister Balthazar Johannes Vorster's "outward-looking" policy of seeking rapprochement with Black Africa. For Dr. Banda, who is sometimes called "Africa's odd man out," the trip enhanced his chance of receiving a $17 million loan for a new airport...
...Vorster & Co. argue that under separate racial development the inhabitants of South West Africa, particularly the nonwhites, have never had it so good. Since 1964, when the program was initiated. South Africa has spent more than $200 million, much of it on Ovamboland, near the Angola border. During that time, the Ovambos have increased the number of teachers from 550 to 1,200, of schools from 130 to 220, and of pupils from 25,000 to 60,000 (nearly 60% of the school-age population). They have also acquired a $2.8 million hospital, and will soon receive $84 million...
...even to destroy great empires." But when the walk on the moon by Astronauts Armstrong and Aldrin was witnessed by most of the world on television in 1969, South Africa's populace began demanding a look at TV sets of their own. Last week Premier John Vorster's government finally approved, in principle, a new plan that will bring TV to South Africa in about four years...
Bitter Pill. The police raids constituted the latest, most serious development in an increasingly bitter confrontation between some South African churchmen and the racist government of Premier Johannes Vorster. While Vorster has repeatedly warned clerics to stay out of "politics," clergymen, especially a number of outspoken Anglicans, have steadfastly refused to ignore apartheid. Two events late last year exacerbated the conflict. After the World Council of Churches voted a $200,000 grant to "antiracist" liberation groups in Africa and elsewhere (TIME, Oct. 5), W.C.C. member churches refused to accede to Vorster's demand that they quit the organization. Then...
Ramsey had hoped, perhaps naively, to soften apartheid attitudes on his visit, but a 40-minute meeting with South African Prime Minister B.J. Vorster to discuss the subject was openly "frosty," witnesses reported. Ramsey made no secret of his own opinion. Apartheid, he told one multiracial audience, is "a hindrance to the church's task of preaching the Gospel...