With the verve and vigor they usually reserve for their favorite rugby matches, South Africa's white politicians last week set off on a three-month- long election campaign. On May 6, almost two years before the next constitutionally mandated election, the country's 3 million white voters will go to the polls to elect a new all-white legislature. Although it will not be a referendum on any specific issue or program, State President P.W. Botha is, in effect, asking for a vote of confidence on his hard-line responses to black activists at home and economic sanctions from abroad.
As Botha and his governing...
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