Bishop's passport will be withdrawn Botha

• Bishop Tutu THE South African Prime Minister, Mr Pieter Botha, has threatened to withdraw the passport of Bishop Desmond Tutu for a second time because of his public criticism of apartheid while overseas.
Bishop Tutu, the Anglican general secretary of the South African Council of Churches, has strongly attacked his country's authorities on his culrrent visit to the United States and Britain. His efforts to persuade the British and American governments to apply more political, diplomatic arid economic pressure on South Africa have provoked anger among whites there.
Mr Botha was asked at an election campaign meeting last Friday why the bishop was allowed to go overseas and criticise apartheid. He replied: "As far as I am concerned his passport will be withdrawn when he returns."
Bishop Tutu was quoted in the United States as saying that foreign investors "must know that they are investing to buttress one of the most vicious systems since Nazism." He said in London on Monday that he could not advocate economic sanctions because if he did he would face charges of "economic sabotage", an offence which carries a minimum sentence of five years' imprisonment.
The bishop will not have been surprised by Mr Botha's threat. His passport was only returned to him in January after it had been confiscated for a year because he refused to retract statements he made in Copenhagen in 1977. Then he had urged the Danish government to stop buying South African coal.
He stressed this week that he was firmly committed to change "by reasonably peaceful means"; it was strange that someone seeking change through nonviolence should be threatened penalised by the loss of his passport. he said.