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...South Africa into a republic. He, like almost everyone else, expected a majority of South African voters on Oct. 5 to endorse his plans to depose Queen Elizabeth II as titular chief of state. But last week, as Verwoerd's Afrikaner-dominated Na tional Party convened in dusty Bloemfontein under the proposed republican flag (with an R for Republiek in place of the Union Jack), his chances of winning a solid victory in the referendum were looking much less bright...
Shivering under the biting wind that whistled through Bloemfontein's sports stadium, more than 30,000 South Africans watched the husky, white-haired man with two fresh scars on his face and neck hold aloft a small white dove. "This is our messenger of good will," he cried. But, as the crowd sat in stunned silence, the bird fell to earth with a small, feathery thud, declining to fly. With such inauspicious symbolism did South Africa's Prime Minister Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd return last week to public life, two months after an assassin's attempt...
...herd Africans into eight little "Bantustans" (TIME, June 1) ringing a paternalistic, all-white South Africa. But right-wingers in the opposition United Party, out of power since 1948, decided to out-apartheid the Nationalists in the next elections. They rammed through the party's convention at Bloemfontein fortnight ago a resolution against the Bantustan program-on the ground that it would reduce the size of white South Africa. Outraged, eleven liberal members of Parliament quit the United Party and announced that they would form their own Progressive Party...
Conducted, like its Montgomery counterpart, in a scrupulous spirit of nonviolence, the boycott was taken up on other Johannesburg bus lines, spread to Pretoria and to Port Elizabeth. If Bloemfontein joins in as expected, the number of won't-riders will soon be more than...
...quite unlikely that he would have left Harvard if the Bloemfontein station had not been given up for reasons of economy, and he was unquestionably disappointed at the decision. He regrets going, saying wistfully, "you don't leave a university and friends after a long time, quite as easily as it seems," and it's more than likely that he may be around Cambridge on his periodic leaves from the Australian post...