Word: apartheiders
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Open only to white Afrikaans Christians, the Studentbond, is not recognized by any international student group. It strongly favors the Verwoerd government and adheres unswervingly to the official dogma of apartheid...
Through a long list of repressive legislation the government is systematically crushing dissident oponion. In violation of the rule of law, foes of apartheid can now be jailed indefinitely without trial. Under the Supression of Communism Act opponents, not all of whom are Communists can now be "banned"--a state in which they are confined to their own neighborhood, prohibited from attending meetings, and forbidden to be quoted in the press...
Much of the 82-item agenda consists of housekeeping chores, budget reports, filling administrative vacancies, etc., but many perennially sticky matters lie ahead. African nations will continue to press for punitive action against Portugal (for its policies in Angola and Mozambique) and South Africa (for apartheid). In fact, before the week was out, more than half of the Assembly-the Afro-Asian bloc plus the Communist nations-walked out when South Africa argued against putting apartheid on the agenda...
...ways that South Africa's hapless blacks and coloreds have to express their dismay at apartheid is to boo vigorously the all-white home teams at international sports contests. In 1955 the unpatriotic favoritism of nonwhites at a rugby game with Great Britain at Bloemfontein brought about a racial slugfest that resulted in a ten-year ban on black and colored spectators in that city; five years ago, a similar clash forced officials to halt a South Africa-Britain soccer match in Johannesburg's Rand Stadium...
...joined the air blockade. Fortnight ago S.A.A. inaugurated a carefully prepared, out-of-the-way alternate route around West Africa's bulge, via Brazzaville (which so far has not joined the ban), Luanda, capital of Portuguese Angola, and Las Palmas in the Spanish Canary Islands (see map). The "apartheid route" takes about 900 miles and two hours longer to Europe, costs an estimated $3,000 more to operate each way, so that S.A.A. may well be hard pressed to preserve its share of the lucrative European market as well as last year's handsome $1,500,000 profit...