Allan Hendrickse

One of the two nonwhite members of President Pieter W. Botha's Cabinet resigned Monday, criticizing Botha as unwilling to end South Africa's apartheid system and to adopt fundamental political, economic and social reforms. The Rev.

One of the two nonwhite members of President Pieter W. Botha's Cabinet resigned Monday, criticizing Botha as unwilling to end South Africa's apartheid system and to adopt fundamental political, economic and social reforms. The Rev.

President Pieter W. Botha fired South Africa's only nonwhite Cabinet minister after a six-month probe into corruption in Parliament. Botha announced he was dismissing Amichand Rajbansi, 46, after studying the findings of a judicial inquiry into corruption and graft in the Indian chamber that Rajbansi heads. South Africa's Parliament has separate chambers for whites, Indians and Colored (mixed-race) but excludes the black majority.

The segregated beach where mixed-race parliamentary leader Allan Hendrickse swam in defiance of apartheid two years ago has been opened to all races, an official said Wednesday. Provincial governor Gene Louw announced his decision to desegregate the beach in Port Elizabeth three days after President Pieter W. Botha named him successor to Constitutional Development Minister Chris Heunis. Louw last year overruled a decision by the Port Elizabeth City Council to open its beaches to all races.

Cabinet Minister Allan Hendrickse, the leader of the mixed-race branch of Parliament, led about 100 people of mixed race Sunday into the ocean at a whites-only beach in Port Elizabeth to protest apartheid. Hendrickse arrived at King's Beach, which is reserved for whites, wearing a swimsuit and robe. No white sunbathers were on the beach at the time.

The leader of the mixed-race House of Representatives in South Africa's tricameral Parliament publicly apologized Wednesday to President Pieter W. Botha for swimming at a "whites only" beach this month to protest continued racial segregation. Botha told a news conference later in Cape Town that the apology by the Rev.

Black nationalist leader Nelson R. Mandela met Friday with parliamentary opposition leaders at his home in the black township of Soweto, while more than 1,500 anti-apartheid demonstrators staged a pro-democracy protest in downtown Johannesburg. Officials of the Democratic Party, the main white anti-apartheid party, and the United Democratic Front, an anti-apartheid coalition, joined the leader of Parliament's mixed-race chamber in an hourlong discussion with Mandela.

Nelson R. Mandela flew to Cape Town to meet South African President Frederik W. de Klerk, who blamed the African National Congress for a snub by four black homeland leaders who boycotted talks with him today. Mandela, the ANC deputy president, arrived at De Klerk's Cape Town office this evening with three other ANC leaders for the guerrilla movement's first official talks with the white rulers it has opposed since its foundation in 1912.

President Pieter W. Botha today renewed South Africa's year-old state of emergency for up to another year. "The ordinary laws of the land are still not sufficient to curb the threat" to security and public order, Botha said in an address to a joint meeting of the white, Asian and mixed-race chambers of Parliament. "Taking account of the security of the republic and the maintainance of public order, I have therefore decided to again proclaim a state of emergency throughout the republic," he said.

The Anglo American mining conglomerate today extended a back-to-work deadline for 19,000 black strikers, and the death toll in the 15-day-old walkout rose to six. Early in the day, Anglo said it was firing about 7,000 strikers at the No. 2 and No. 3 shafts of its Western Holdings gold mine in the Orange Free State because they did not return to work by today's deadline.

President Pieter W. Botha, in a sharp rebuff to a mixed-race minister in his Cabinet, declared Saturday that his government would never allow the racial integration of South Africa's residential neighborhoods. Botha, who last week had pledged to step up the pace of reform here, also reaffirmed his insistence that any new political system be based on "group rights," protecting the country's white and other racial minorities, rather than on the principle of one man, one vote.