homeland of
Bophuthatswana.V
From time to time, President Botha and his colleagues made vague
promises of domestic reform. In August 1988, Chris Heunis, minister of
constitutional
development and planning, declared that "the road of re-
form we have chosen is irreversible."
In the same month, a government
spokesman said that equal political rights for all was the ultimate aim of
government planning.V
On the vital question of political empowerment,
however, the best the government could offer Africans was thirty out of
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