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...carefully calculated. It was timed to capitalize on a still booming economy and was aimed at strengthening his hand against the recalcitrant right wing of his own National Party. Botha has never received a popular mandate; he was elected by his party in 1978 after Prime Minister Balthazar Johannes Vorster resigned during the Information Department's "Muldergate" scandal. He has since shaken the Afrikaner establishment by challenging white South Africans to "adapt or die," and calling for dismantling of the petty apartheid laws and regulations that enforce racial separation. One reform, for instance, would allow hotels, bars and restaurants...
...John" in that conversation was Balthazar Johannes Vorster, 63, Prime Minister of South Africa for twelve years and its President for the past nine months. The speaker was General Hendrik Van den Bergh, former head of the Bureau of State Security (BOSS); his testimony is included in the third and unsparing final report of a commission appointed to investigate corruption and legal irregularities in the government of John Vorster, who in 1977 led his National Party to the greatest electoral victory in its history...
Last week, after the release of the latest report on South Africa's "Muldergate" scandal, Vorster abruptly resigned as his country's head of state, his long political career ending in disgrace. Vorster's last official act as President was to receive the report that described his humiliation and led directly to his resignation...
...most important finding of the commission, headed by Supreme Court Justice Rudolph Erasmus, was that Vorster was fully aware of a covert operation by his former Minister of Information, Cornelius Mulder, to spend tens of millions of dollars in an illegal and secret effort to influence the news media. Retracting its own preliminary report that had exonerated Vorster, the commission concluded that he had lied in sworn testimony concerning his role in the whole affair. One witness testified that he had once asked Vorster whether the government itself was being blackmailed by Eschel Rhoodie, one of Mulder...
Engelhard said in 1967 that "the policy of South Africa as expressed by the new prime minister (John Vorster) is as much in the interests of South Africa as anything I can think of or suggest. I am not a South African, but there is nothing I would do better or differently...