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Mozambique President Samora Machel has long been one of the most implacable foes of South Africa's apartheid system. Returning the sentiment, South African Foreign Minister Roelof ("Pik") Botha has seldom bothered to hide his hostility toward his country's Marxist, black-ruled neighbor. But when both men finally met in Mozambique's capital of Maputo last week, it was to shake hands and talk peace. After eight hours of discussions, negotiating teams for the two sides emerged to announce that they had agreed to sign a joint security pact...
Machel looks west-and south We are Marxists, but riot in the religious sense of the word," an adviser to Mozambique's President conceded last year. That may be putting it mildly. Last October, during a fence-mending 18-day tour of Western Europe, President Samora Machel, 50, was presented with a medal from Queen Elizabeth, and persuaded the British government to waive his country's payment of a $30 million debt. In Portugal, Mozambique's longtime colonial master and Machel's bitter foe during a ten-year struggle for independence, the former guerrilla commander declared...
...Tanzania last year: "[Economic saboteurs] will have their ill-gotten property confiscated and will be given hoes to work on the land for a very long time." Several hundred suspects are now being held in Tanzanian prisons under the country's Preventive Detention Act. Mozambique's President Samora Machel has publicly berated and fired corrupt government officials, as has Zambia's Kaunda. In Zimbabwe, the four-year-old government of Prime Minister Robert Mugabe has ordered stiff new penalties for corruption, including fines of $5,000 and five years' imprisonment...
Crocker was snubbed at the outset by Mozambique's President Samora Machel who simply refused to meet with him. He spent several days trying to assure black African leaders that there would be no "tilt or endorsement of apartheid," his pains, he then received a less than enthusiastic welcome from the South Africans. An expected meeting with Prime Minister P.W. Botha, for instance, conspicuously failed to materialize. "It doesn't suit us," Botha was quoted as saying about Crocker's solicitous meetings with black African leaders. Thus, on both counts, it seemed to be an inauspicious start...
...case was a major blow for Mugabe, who was playing host last week to visiting Mozambican President Samora Machel. Described by aides as "embarrassed and enraged" at the alleged conduct of a longtime friend and comrade, Mugabe promptly sent word to Parliament that full justice would be done. Whatever the outcome of the judicial pro cess, the case would be sure to confront Mugabe's own leadership with a series of crucial tests and uncertainties...