Word: africa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first formulated her own conclusions about the government's apartheid policies when she lectured on economic development at Witwatersrand University. Making a study of the benefits of using non-white labor for professional jobs, Mrs. Suzman concluded that the recognition of South Africa as a multi-racial society was a necessity for the future development of the country's modern industry...
...exactly optimistic about the immediate future for South Africa, Mrs. Suzman thinks that it will be a long time until any fundamental changes of the apartheid policies will take effect. Any pressure from outside the country, she continues would be abortive; a blockade would only draw the forces of reaction further into their ramparts. Furthermore, because of increased trade there is no doubt that they could survive economically, she argues...
...which the Liberal Party advocates. The Liberal Party, more radical than the Progressive, has no representation in Parliament and has had several of its members arrested on subversive charges. The result of the one-man-one-vote policy would be too violent to be in the interests of South Africa, Mrs. Suzman contends...
...most dangerous trends in South Africa is the tendancy among Afrikaners to believe that other parts of the world are beginning to "come around" and, if not hold their racist views, at least understand them. Every time there is a race riot in the U.S., they feel that there is a new group of white Americans who have been forced into seeing the logic of apartheid. Commenting on the Black Muslims in the U.S., Mrs. Suzman said that it is interesting to see the many elements they have in common with the Afrikaner; they both call for racial division...
...Blacks for comparatively trivial misdemeanors like being in the wrong part of town without a pass. They also allow the white police to stop any African at will and demand his papers. The jail population is somewhere near 75,000, and there were 123 people executed in South Africa last year...