Word: africanization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Upon hearing that a South African paper had published a sensational exposé of conditions in the country's prisons, the London Sunday Times sent a cable to its Johannesburg stringer asking for details. "I dare not risk prosecution and gaoling by cabling this story," answered Stringer Benjamin Pogrund. He had reason for his fears. He had written the story in the first place for the nation's most outspoken newspaper, the Rand Daily Mail. And Prime Minister Verwoerd's police were already making trouble...
Pogrund's exposé was based on the experience of South African Art Teacher Robert Harold Strachan, 39, who had served a three-year sentence for political conspiracy, and was so sickened by what he saw that he went to the Rand Daily Mail to tell all. Editor Laurence Gandar (TIME, Jan. 8), checked carefully, put Pogrund to work, then published Strachan's appalling story of filth and disease, of beatings and other tortures suffered mainly by blacks in South Africa's prisons...
...London Daily Mail that took the hint. Its editors simply tracked down a Londoner with a subscription to the South African paper and lifted the story, then splashed it across the front page. Editorialized the London paper: "Now Gandar awaits the knock on the door in the darkness at noon which is moving across South Africa. For this is the testing time for those journalists and editors in that country who have risked jail and intimidation to keep their press free...
Reaction to the princely philippic from Black Africa was equally sour. Murmured Kenya's External Affairs Minister Joseph Murumbi: "It is hard to imagine how the Duke of Edinburgh, who has never been exposed to the hard realities of colonialism, could speak authoritatively on Rhodesia." Added the East African Standard, for good measure: "Who does Prince Philip think he is-Prince Albert...
Another organization which might be susceptible to charges of discrimination is the Association of African and Afro-American Students, which is composed exclusively of Negroes...