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...same evening, Botha appeared on television channels that broadcast in the Sotho, Tswana, Xhosa and Zulu languages and told their predominantly black viewers, "The time has come for us South Africans to join together to negotiate the structures that we want." From its headquarters in neighboring Zambia, however, the A.N.C. dismissed Botha's overtures, which it said demonstrated that he was "committed to the maintenance of white-minority domination...
...country's more moderate black leaders, dismissed the Port Elizabeth speech as "bitterly disappointing." Dr. Nthato Motlana, a senior civic leader in Soweto, South Africa's largest black township, branded Botha's remarks an "absolute waste of time." Leaders of the outlawed African National Congress, delivering their assessment from Zambia, called the proposals "meaningless amendments of the apartheid system," while the Sowetan, South Africa's largest black daily, editorialized: "The unified South Africa only reflects another glorified system of homelands . . . (Apartheid) cannot be dressed up in false colors. We are not that stupid...
...raid struck a blow at the precarious detente that exists between white- ruled South Africa and six neighboring black-governed countries: Angola, Botswana, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Earlier in the week, the leaders of those so-called frontline states had issued a joint statement urging increased international pressure against Pretoria's apartheid policies, including the use of economic sanctions. The leaders admitted that they were concerned about the potentially disastrous impact of such sanctions on their own economies, which depend heavily on South Africa's. Nonetheless, they said they saw no other way of bringing about peaceful change...
Finally, late last week, several leading South African businessmen flew to neighboring Zambia for a six-hour meeting with the exiled leaders of the African National Congress, the oldest black South African political organization, which is outlawed at home. The businessmen, led by Gavin Relly, head of the giant Anglo American Corporation, were undeterred by Botha's warning that such a meeting would be "a disloyal act," and afterward pronounced it a success...
Kenneth Kaunda, 61, who has been President of Zambia since his country's independence in 1964, is one of black Africa's elder statesmen. Though not a Marxist, he is a firmly committed nationalist who supported the independence struggles in Angola, Mozambique and Zimbabwe. Kaunda is, however, also a devout Christian who believes that "when the good Lord said 'Love thy neighbor as thyself,' he didn't mention color." He has met with South African leaders in an effort to bring about an end to apartheid. TIME Diplomatic Correspondent William Stewart recently visited the Zambian capital of Lusaka to talk...