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...townships to cover the unrest, many have poured their energies into chasing down rumors. Word had it last week that Nelson Mandela, the imprisoned leader of the outlawed African National Congress who has been serving a life sentence since 1964, might soon be released and deported to Lusaka, Zambia, where the A.N.C. has its headquarters. The reports were fueled largely by the fact that the 67-year-old Mandela, who underwent prostate surgery four weeks ago, had not yet been returned from a hospital in Cape Town to his cell in Pollsmoor Prison. State President P.W. Botha tried to dispel...
...Foreign Minister Roelof Botha denounced the A.N.C.'s unprecedented deployment of mines on roads. He said investigators had discovered "tracks" leading to the Zimbabwe border and warned that South African troops would pursue the saboteurs into Zimbabwe if the attacks continued. The Foreign Ministers of Angola, Botswana, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe, meeting in Harare, Zimbabwe, denied that A.N.C. guerrillas maintained bases in their countries and protested Botha's threat "in the strongest possible terms." NORTHERN IRELAND Anger in Parliament...
...tones as they continued last week to shower opprobrium on the Botha regime. At the United Nations' 40th anniversary celebration, high officials from at least a dozen nations stood to denounce the Pretoria government and demand measures against it. "If you don't apply sanctions," President Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia warned the leaders of developed nations with investments in South Africa, "hundreds of thousands of people will die and the investments will go up in flames...
...government had more stern words when seven clergymen of various races from the Dutch Reformed Church proposed to travel to Lusaka, the capital of Zambia, to meet with the outlawed African National Congress. Botha responded with anger. "The government has expressed its strong viewpoint on discussions with the A.N.C., which is a murderous organization," a spokesman for his office said. The government had raised a furor a week earlier when it seized the passports of eight Afrikaner students who had scheduled a trip to Lusaka, and it was widely expected that some similar action would be taken against the seven...
Ever since Mandela's arrest in 1962 on charges of attempted sabotage and treason, his former deputy, Oliver Tambo, now 68, has run the A.N.C. from exile, currently in Lusaka, the capital of Zambia. The A.N.C. has received support from the Soviet Union, as well as some Western nations, and is increasingly co operating with the also banned South African Communist Party. The alliance has made it convenient for the Pretoria government to describe the township unrest as Communist inspired. Over the years, the A.N.C. has trained guerrilla fighters at camps in various black African countries and staged a number...