THE VISIT by South African prime minister PW Botha which starts on Saturday is an insult to black people in Britain and world-wide. It is symbolic of the desire of the Thatcher Reagan and his friends in the United States, to bring South Africa back into the fold of international respectability.
During the next few days Tory leaders will huff and puff about tell upposition to apartheid, but claim that oly be achieved by tak- reforms' ing to the leaders. This line is just a smokescreen for the rea attitude of the Tories and their friends towards the South African regime one of support and cooperation.
In the first place South Resistered as a newspaper with ine post OTICe Published hr Carding: nterprises. TO Box oo. LonGeR NI Printed By East End Offset (TU) Ltd. London E2. NO-TO government, and of Africa is regarded as vitalWestern ortiance important the from a military point view.
Despite the formal ban on arms sales to South Africa, this is regularly breached with a nod and a wink from the British government. Huge Rritish -11 -vestments in South Africa reap fat profits British monopolies banks.
The hypocrisy of the Tories' arguments about reforming' apartheid exposed daily by events in South Africa itself. Far •LIC position of blacks in that country getbetter, it is getting rapidly worse.
The policy of transporting millions of black peoPands is being speeded up- outback 'homeMore than 4 million people will be transported under the 'Surplus People' project, while only useful" DIaCK workers will be allowed to live in the bulk of the country reserved for whites.
That is the reality of apartheid white supremacy being deepened and strengthened under Botha, while he is feted and praised by the governments of the 'free South Africa, far from being treated as a respectable part of the international community should be treated as what it is - a racist regime based on institutionalised thuggery.
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