MONTHLY REPORT--SWAZILAND BUREAU--OCTOBER 1987

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
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• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: November 3, 1987
• Content Type: MEMO

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EMBASSY OF THE
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
P.O. Box 199
Mbabane, Swaziland
3 November 1987
FBIS 5801-87
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director, Foreign Broadcast Information Service
THROUGH Chief, Operations Group
SUBJECT Monthly Report--Swaziland Bureau--October 1987
Working with data from the July Salary Change Survey, in
October the Department of State approved an increase for the
Embassy's FSN wage scale, retroactive to 19 July. Headquarters was
alerted to this increase and is forwarding data to PMCD to get the
Bureau's FBN wage scale increased.
A. Monitorial/Editorial
1. Fighting between Angolan Government forces and UNITA
rebels continued this month with prolonged and heavy engagements on
the Mavinga front. In a 16 October dispatch from KUP, UNITA
claimed the MPLA had suffered its "worst defeat yet," as ranks of
the 47th Brigade were decimated by one-third in an offensive on the
banks of the Lomba River. The report also noted UNITA's capture of
a SAM-8 anti-aircraft missile and radar system. By 30 October, the
MPLA, according to another KUP report, had abandoned Cassamba,
captured in earlier fighting, and withdrawn to positions just
outside Cuito Cuanavale.
2. In response, the Angolan Ministry of External Relations
issued a "declaration" on 16 October detailing South African
logistical and operational support to UNITA. According to this
statement, the "armed bandits" "fled in disarray" to an area south
of the Lomba River, "where they could count on massive support from
and direct intervention by the racist South African Army."
Concurrently, the Angolan Government stated: "Our forces are not
helped in any way by our allies" and averred that South Africa
advanced claims about Soviet and Cuban military advisers in Angola
as a "pretext to justify its aggression."
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3. South African Defense Minister Magnus Malan, speaking
at the 14 October opening of an Air Force base in the northern
Transvaal, affirmed his country's opposition to "terrorists who are
accommodated and supported" by Mozambique. Malan called on
Mozambican President Joaquim Chissano to do "his share" in
retarding this threat "or else we will have to take steps to ensure
that the terrorists in his country are effectively neutralized."
4. The political rift among South African liberals widened
on 11 October with the formation of the National Democratic
Movement. Wynand Malan, an independent member of parliament who
left the National Party before the May elections, heads the new
group. Progressive Federal Party MP's Peter Gastrow and Pierre
Cronje, along with President's Council member Pieter Schoemann,
announced their decision to cross over to the movement.
Conspicuous by his absence was Denis Worrall, former ambassador to
the United Kingdom, who resigned his post and National Party
membership in an unsuccessful May election bid to win the
Helderberg constituency. Worrall complained that he was "elbowed
out" by Malan in a play for control of the so-called Independent
movement.
5. Zimbabwe held parliamentary elections on 23 and 30
October to fill House of Assembly and Senate seats previously
reserved for whites. ZANU-PF, the ruling party, saw all of its
candidates succeed in their bids for the 20 vacant Assembly seats.
Eleven of the victors are white. ZANU-sponsored candidates also
swept all 10 Senate seats being contested.
B. Communications
1. After a 2-day installation period which occasioned a
circuit outage at the Bureau, on 28 October Pretoria CPU
transferred our primary communications circuits to their new
MegaMux multiplex system. arrangement coincides with a new
hardware configuration
C. Technical
1. Attempts to install the newly-arrived Victor VPC II in
the communications section proved unsuccessful, as the black box
currently in use with the IBM XT was incompatible with Victor
interface. We await the arrival of our new black box.
STAT
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A. Personnel
1. Associate editor) Iwas presented with
the Special Achievement Award for her work on the South African
press review.
2. Editor
Exceptional Accomplishment n connection with her efforts toward
bureau automation.
A. New Embassy GSO Scott Heckman toured the Bureau on 8
October.
B. Embassy CPU Chief Rudy Garcia toured the Bureau on 27
October, especially to get a briefing on the Bureau's primary and
secondary circuits. He offered to help interface with CPU Pretoria
in activating the multiplex system.
Chief, Swaziland Bureau
STAT
STAT
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Swaziland Bureau Production Report for OCTOBER 1987
1. TOTALS FROM ALL SOURCES:
TOTAL.
TOTAL
TOTAL
PUBLISHABLE WORDAGE FILED DURING MONTH:
NON-PUBLISHABLE WORDAGE FILED DURING MONTH:
NUMBER OF PUBLISHABLE ITEMS FILED DURING MONTH:
403740
26380
1042
BROAD-
CASTS
PRESS
AGENCIES
PURL- I -
CATIONS
II.
III.
INPUT OF REGULAR COVERAGE: 5715.00
(minutes or issues per week) min.
OUTPUT FROM ALL SOURCES:
(publishable words per month)
6090.00
min.
138.00
issues
ANGOLA
Luanda Domestic Service in
Portuguese
BOTSWANA
Gaborone Domestic Service in
English
Gaborone BOTSWANA DAILY NEWS in
English
CLANDESTINE
(Clandestine) Voice of Resistance of the
Black Cockerel in
Portuguese to Angola
(Clandestine) KUP in
French to Southern and Central
Africa
(Clandestine) Radio Truth in
English to Zimbabwe
(Clandestine) Voice of Truth in
Portuguese to Angola
(Clandestine) KUP in
Portuguese to Southern and Central
Africa
(Clandestine) KUP in
English to Southern and Central
Africa
LESOTHO
Maseru Domestic Service in
English
370
2170
0
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BROAD- PRESS PUBLI-
CASTS AGENCIES CATIONS
Maseru Domestic Service in
seSotho
MAI._AW I
Blantyre Domestic Service in
English
Blantyre DAILY TIMES in
English
MOZAMBIQUE
Maputo Domestic Service in
Portuguese
Maputo in
English to Southern Africa
Maputo NOTICIAS in
Portuguese
Maputo TEMPO in
Portuguese
Beira DIARIO DE MOCAMBIQUE in
Portuguese
NAMIBIA
Windhoek DIE REPUBLIKEIN in
Afrikaans
Windhoek DIE SUIDWESTER in
Afrikaans
Windhoek THE WINDHOEK ADVERTISER in
English
Windhoek WINDHOEK THE NAMIBIAN in
English
SENEGAL
Dakar PANA in
English
Dakar PANA in
French
SOUTH AFRICA
Johannesburg International Service in
5660
English
Johannesburg Domestic Service in
1570
Afri kaans
Johannesburg
Domestic Service in
24590
English
Johannesburg
Television in
16490
Afri kaans
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BROAD- PRESS PUBLI-
CASTS AGENCIES CATIONS
Johannesburg Television in
English
Umtata Capital Radio in
English
Johannesburg SAPA in
English
Cape Town CAPE TIMES in
1290
English
Durban ILANGA in
700
Zul u
Johannesburg
BEELD in
700
Afri k:aans
Johannesburg
English
Johannesburg
English
Johannesburg
BUSINESS DAY in
CITY PRESS in
O'SECULO in
1390
0
Portuguese
Johannesburg RAPPORT in
0
Afrikaans
Johannesburg
SOWETAN in
2930
English
Johannesburg
SUNDAY STAR in
4400
English
Johannesburg
SUNDAY TIMES
1380
English
Johannesburg
THE CITIZEN in
1130
English
Johannesburg
THE NEW NATION in
2480
English
Johannesburg
THE STAR in
6570
English
Johannesburg
WEEKLY MAIL in
8210
English
Pretoria DIE TRANSVALER in
Afrikaans
RSA Editorial Press Review of
Afrikaans and
English Papers
SWAZILAND
Mbabane Domestic Service in
English
Mbabane Domestic Service in
si Swati
Mbabane Television in
English
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BROAD- PRESS PUBLI-
CASTS AGENCIES CATIONS
Mbabane Television in
si Swat i
Mbabane THE SWAZI NEWS in
English
Mbabane THE SWAZI OBSERVER in
English
Mbabane THE TIMES OF SWAZILAND in
English
UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS
Moscow in
Ndebele to Zimbabwe
Moscow in
Zulu to Southern Africa
Moscow in
English to Zimbabwe
Moscow in
Afrikaans to Southern Africa
UNITED KINGDOM
London BBC World Service in
English
ZAMBIA
Lusaka Radio Freedom in
Zulu to Southern Africa
Lusaka Domestic Service in
English
Lusaka Radio Freedom in
English
Lusaka Voice of Namibia
English
Lusaka SUNDAY TIMES OF ZAMBIA in
English
Lusaka TIMES OF ZAMBIA in
English
ZIMBABWE
Harare Domestic Service in
English
Harare Domestic Service in
Ndebele
Harare Voice of Namibia in
English
Harare THE FINANCIAL GAZETTE in
English
0
7330
0
9850
0
0
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BROAD- PRESS PUBLI-
CASTS AGENCIES CATIONS
Harare THE HERALD in
English
Harare THE SUNDAY MAIL in
English
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