The World - News from Nov. 12, 1985
South Africa warned that it is considering contingency plans to expel about 1.5 million foreign black workers in reprisal for international economic sanctions. In turn, the nation’s black miners’ union threatened a retaliatory strike. Declaring that “charity begins at home,” Manpower Minister P.T.C. du Plessis said the migrant workers from such neighboring black nations as Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Botswana may have to be sent home if sanctions force more South Africans out of work by crimping the overall economy.
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