S.A. issues attack warning to Mozambique
NZPA-Reuter Johannesburg South Africa will attack Mozambique again if it goes on harbouring guerrillas, according to the Prime Minister, Mr Pieter Botha. “That is all we ask of our neighbours,” he told a public meeting in Nelspruit in the north of the country. “We don’t want their land, we don’t want war, but we won’t allow them to shelter terrorists operating against us.” He said that Mozambique was under Soviet influence and thus: “There are too many arms and too little food. Therefore, Maputo has little future along its chosen path. “It will realise this in time, but if it maintains camps, then we will strike across borders where and whenever we chose,” he said.
In May the South African Air Force struck at alleged African National Congress (A.N.C.) bases near Maputo in retaliation for a car bomb explosion in Pretoria on May 20 which killed 19 people. The A.N.C., the main guerrilla organisation fighting white rule in South Africa, claimed responsibility for the bomb.
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