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Most of the 2.5 million coloreds live in the western Cape Province; there are also small pockets near Durban, Natal and Johannesburg. They generally speak Afrikaans, the language of the Dutch settlers. They have better employment opportunities-and are usually paid more-than blacks, particularly in the Cape, where many...
Amid the evasions, rationalizations and semantic games, some very real change is occurring, even though many white Africans still oppose even the small concessions the government has made. "Change" itself, like "progress," is a dirty word, regarded as a code term for subversion. The euphemism to be used is "movement...
The cause of the black-on-black mayhem was a drive by young black students to expand further the power they have wielded in the ghettos since last June, when the bloodiest racial demonstrations in South African history shook the country. Back then it was Soweto, the huge (pop. 1.2...
In fact, Vorster seems to have decided to sacrifice the Smith regime in Rhodesia and accept independence for Namibia in a gamble that these moves will buy time for him to put into effect Pretoria's own strategy for survival. This does not involve greater integration of the blacks in...
If black unrest continues to mount, as seems likely, the Vorster regime could face problems within its own constituency. White business, deep in recession, depends heavily on black labor (90% of total employment in both agriculture and mining, 68% in service industries). But because of the slump, black unemployment is...