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...serious brain drain. The most popular destination is Britain, where many have relatives. The runner-up is Australia, to which the South Africans have been flocking in such numbers that they have been dubbed the "new boat people." Quite a few who arrived in South Africa from white-ruled Rhodesia have decided to go back, even though the country has since become black-ruled Zimbabwe. At the time of Zimbabwe's independence, fewer than 100,000 members of a white community that had once numbered 277,000 remained, but 30,000 have since returned...
...stronger than the Reagan Administration's. Despite rising public outrage at South Africa, as evidenced by a large demonstration in London last Saturday, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher contends that such measures would be as ineffectual as those taken in the 1960s and '70s against the white rebel government in Rhodesia. She believes that they would hurt black South Africans, not to mention the independent black states to the north (see box), long before they would have any real impact on apartheid. Thatcher is also obviously concerned about Britain's estimated $8 billion direct investment in South Africa, the largest...
About 40 delegates to the Harvard National Model United Nations Conference currently meeting in Boston yesterday walked out of a keynote speech by Ian D. Smith, the former prime minister of Rhodesia, protesting his presence at the event...
Smith was the last man to govern Rhodesia under white minority rule before the country became Zimbabwe in 1979. He fought a civil war for a decade before acceding to Black rule and overseeing the transfer of power to current Prime Minister Robert Mugabe...
...have been told several times that it is we (black Africans) who will suffer most if sanctions are imposed. Nobody knows that better than I do, nobody. I've gone through it, my people and I, as a result of the British-proposed sanctions at the United Nations (against Rhodesia in the 1960s). But an explosion is about to take place in South Africa, and when it does, it will destroy everything in its wake. So whether there is an explosion or whether there are sanctions, we are involved. As a matter of both principle and self-interest, we want...