the "Transvaal Post', summed up the reaction of most black South Africans to the current scandal:
CUVCEHEHCHI Mulder's resignation leaves me cold', he said — - a reference to the Justice Minister's response to the murder of Steve Biko.
Nevermeless. ne sor is an eye-opener. A judicial inquiry has revealed that nearl I/m of state funds had gone to finance ап аррагенну мосрепасне ргоgovernment newspaper.
The money was laundered through a Swiss bank account in of exchange control legislation.
John Vorster, then Prime Minister and now President, and Hendrick Van Den Bergh, then head of the secret police, both approved the ASTANC HICHEL.
The former Minister Information, Connie Mulder, and former head Department of Information, *Dr Eschel Roodie, were involved in the project. Both have resigned in the course of the scandal. CHAMPDOWN But the uncovered in the course of a judicial investigation of lesser misappropriations of funds in the Information Department.
But Prime Botha stepped in to stop inquiry and replace it with two LICW strict secrecy.
The clampdown means that thescandal can be stopped from spreading. Thosesections of the Nationalist establishment not yet contaminated will probably stay clean for the time being.
But the damage has been done. When an Afrikaner judge the denounces Cabinet and the State President it is difficult to brush the affair off as a communist plot.
But it is tempting to feel that Mulder's sin was less that he plotted than that he was caught. Although Wab supporters may have scruples about the scruples don't count for much in ruling Minister Pieter stability - of the the apparatus is likely to be seen as the greater priority. meeting in The English-speaking oppo sition and their multinational neckers are aiso ceoentert oi the stability of the state, so they too are likely to opt for the quiet life rather than press home a temporary political advantage.
relied upon ministers consistently regime are the black themselves.
BOYCHECHE methods used, opposition groups. class politics and the governing suffrage nights.
oppose the MASSCS Things like election resulls mean mine to te bracks, wao are of course not allowed to paracipate in tem. so mos watch with studied disinterest Nationalists and the various They note, for example, that these white oppositionists often don't even support universal and that their main backer is Harry Oppenheimer of the Anglo-American Corpor ation in whosegoldand diamond mines hundreds of thousands of blacks sweat out their days and In these circumstances such indifference is not surprising. MULDER: his sin was to get caught.