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...alleged misdeeds center on a secret multimillion-dollar slush fund operated by the Department of Information when Mulder was Minister of the Interior and Information under former Prime Minister John Vorster. According to Mostert's report, some of the funds, intended for a covert campaign to secure favorable coverage for South African policies in the foreign and domestic press, were diverted to dubious business ventures and the personal pleasures of departmental officials. The main schemers were identified as the brothers Eschel and Deneys Rhoodie, who until a few months ago served as Secretary and Deputy Secretary, respectively...
Last month, however, retiring South African Prime Minister John Vorster abruptly reneged on the deal. In a move plainly calculated to guarantee a pro-South African regime in Namibia, Vorster announced that Pretoria would forge ahead with an "internal settlement." Last week, top foreign-policy makers of the Big Five, headed by Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, called on Vorster's hard-lining successor, Pieter W. Botha, with a harsh message: either go along with the West's independence plan or face U.N.-imposed* economic sanctions...
...policy of South Africa as expressed by the new Prime Minister [John Vorster] is as much in the interests of South Africa as anything I can think of or suggest. I am not a South African, but there is nothing I would do better or differently." --U.S. multinational businessman Charles W. Engelhard...
There was no doubt that Pik Botha was the public favorite. An opinion poll of South African whites the week before the caucus had shown him leading by 83% over the other two candidates. He was also reputedly Vorster's choice for Prime Minister. But Pik's popularity -and his junior status as a minister appointed only 18 months ago-rankled his colleagues. In the end, he was forced to drop out, after receiving only 22 votes on the first ballot...
...have no illusions whatsoever." Aloof, autocratic and given to occasional outbursts of temper, Botha is essentially a party man, who rose through the ranks as leader of the relatively small western Cape, still the historically sacred region of Afrikaner origins. He is not the patient negotiator that Vorster was. But he has proved to be a shrewd organizer. After becoming Defense Minister in 1966, he characteristically turned the ministry into a personal fief. At the same time he systematically built up an awesome military machine...