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After decades of debate over the potentially corrupting influences of television, South Africa last week was - in the words of one Johannesburg columnist - "dragged, kicking and screaming, into the TV age." More than a million view ers, mostly whites who paid up to $1,200 for color sets, watched the...
It is just such painstaking possession of his materials that earned Sendak his reputation. In 20 years, he has illustrated and/or written more than 70 books. He has won every important children's book prize in the U.S. In 1970, he became the first American illustrator ever to be...
Such verligte (Afrikaans for enlightened) policies will have to spread much more widely, however, if the country's 15 million blacks are ever to become economically equal to its 3.8 million whites. Average salaries for nonwhites have risen 30.5% in the past three years, v. a 17.5% increase for...
Surprisingly enough, South Africa is keeping lines open to Zambia, despite the conflict, for its own pragmatic reason. South Africa does $65 million annually in trade with Zambia (mostly in heavy mining machinery). Last month some South African businessmen, with full government knowledge, shipped vital replacement machinery directly to Zambia...
Barnard's South African colleagues lost no time in criticizing him for even attempting the procedure. One, quoted in the influential Afrikaans newspaper Die Burger, implied that Barnard had engaged in outright experimentation; another argued that the operation had offered Herbert no real hope for a return to normality...