The World - News from Feb. 21, 1986
President Pieter W. Botha of South Africa refused to meet with black Anglican Bishop Desmond Tutu and other anti-apartheid clergymen about turmoil in black townships. Tutu and the others flew into Cape Town expecting to talk with Botha about recent bloodshed in Alexandra, a black suburb of Johannesburg, where at least 23 blacks have died. They said they understood that Botha had agreed to the meeting, but when they arrived, they were told that other commitments kept him from seeing them. They met instead with a deputy Cabinet minister.
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