Word: africanization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Helen Suzman is the only member of the South African Parliament who has consistently opposed the government's apartheid policies. After 15 years in Parliament, she has amassed an impressive record of runins with the Afrikaners and remains the only visible liberal hold-out against one of the world's most reactionary regimes...
...Suzman also discounts the posibility of violent overthrow from within. The security laws are so strict that they make the organization of an African uprising impossible. This discouraging analysis, however, does not mean that Mrs. Suzman forecasts no change for the future. Instead she predicts that while it may take a great deal of time, a certain amount of integration will be forced on the Afrikaners by economic necessity. When the Africans start moving into lower level professional jobs, it is her hope that there will be some political concessions as well...
...bills which Mrs. Suzman has most adamently opposed are the pass laws or in fllux laws which require an African to carry travel papers in order to go as far as, for example, from Wellesley to Cambridge. The objectives of these laws are not only to make it difficult for Africans to move about and organize a resistance to apartheid, but also to turn them into a migratory labor force. The laws make it impossible for a Black to bring his family into the city area, even if he has come to work there. They also prohibit the Africans from...
...results of the pass laws is that they have led to wide arrests of 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...
Offering Advice. The delegates served notice that secessionists will not be tolerated in the African countries, thus condemning by inference the rebel Biafrans of Nigeria; they also made plans to send a six-member delegation to Nigeria to offer advice on ways to end the civil war. Kenyan, Ethiopian and Somalian diplomats took the occasion to arrange talks for next month aimed at ending the revolt of Somali tribesmen in Kenya and Ethiopia. While Haile Selassie urged an armed assault on the white-supremacist government of Rhodesia, the delegates more realistically decided only to increase their financial support for bands...