Noisy debate on Mandela
NZPA-Reuter Cape Town The South African Prime Minister (Mr Pieter Botha) has made it clear the Government will not consider releasing the black nationalist leader, Nelson Mandela, from jail.
Mr Botha has clashed sharply .with white university students over a campaign to free Mandela, aged 61, who is serving a life sentence on Robben Island. He was jailed in 1964 on charges of plotting violent revolution. i
| “If we release Mandela we • will free an arch-Marxist • who belongs to an organisaition which is working from outside South Africa to loverthrow the State,” Mr [Botha said during a noisy, question-and-answer session, attended by about 1200 students at the University of Stellenbosch. The Prime Minister was cheered, hissed, and booed several times during .the session by the clearly-divided [gathering. '
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