Word: africanization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...chocolate-skinned Robert Sobukwe, 38, head of the black nationalist Pan-African Congress, was sentenced to three years in jail for "incitement to riot." As his release date drew near last week, Sobukwe, a slim onetime university lecturer, was hustled from the maximum-security prison in Pretoria to a bleak detention camp on Robben Island in Table Bay, six miles from Cape Town. There he learned, just the day before he was to receive freedom, that South Africa's Parliament had rammed through a new security act empowering Justice Minister Johannes Vorster to keep political prisoners in custody indefinitely...
...government of Prime Minister Verwoerd last week reduced still further the shrinking circle of liberty in South Africa. With only one dissenting vote, the South African Parliament enacted a sweeping No-Trial Bill, empowering the Minister of Justice to hold whomever he chooses incommunicado and without trial for 90 days. Under this "law," which virtually destroys the rule of law in South Africa, the Government can renew the detention period endlessly...
...establishing apartheid the government has silenced all African dissidents through banning, exile, and house arrest. Last year it began earnestly to apply similar restrictions to its white opponents, jailing the radicals and intimidating the liberals. Through these measures the government enlarged the scope of apartheid: the system now clearly poisons the white community as it imprisons the non-whites. The Verwoerd regime has again validated the dictum that the rights of some cannot be destroyed without imperiling the rights...
...have tried to forstall it. Their inaction contrasts unfavorably with the recent outspokenness of the British ambassador in South Africa and the "winds of change" warning delivered by Prime Minister MacMillan in Capetown three years ago. The British Labor party has gone still further, advocating a boycott of South African goods...
Soon the only peaceful solution to South Africa's problems may be partitioning the country into two states similar in concept to India and Pakistan. Partition, though, is far less likely than a major conflict between the races in which the independent African states will join the fight against the whites. Intervention in this malestrom would present far more perils to the United States than intervening through a boycott does...