Word: bophuthatswana
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...blacks working at the Impala mines in Bophuthatswana, which produce about 25% of the world's platinum, seemed a natural constituency for the National Union of Mineworkers. But last week 23,000 of those miners found themselves more in need of a job than a union. The General Mining Union Corp. had fired them in the largest mass dismissal in South Africa's history...
...union said it hoped to persuade the company to change its mind. But unemployment in Bophuthatswana, a nominally independent homeland, is high. The South African Chamber of Mines, which recruits workers throughout the region, already has 400,000 job applications on file. NORTHERN IRELAND Protestants Vent Their Rage...
...government also renewed its promise to end a controversial program that has forcibly relocated some 3.5 million blacks to the homelands in the past 25 years. For the moment, the 8 million blacks who live in the four homelands that have accepted independent status from Pretoria--Transkei, Venda, Bophuthatswana and Ciskei--will still be considered foreign nationals. They are expected to receive dual citizenship by the end of the year. Other blacks living in rural areas are basically free to seek jobs in cities whenever they choose, although they remain barred from residing in areas reserved for whites. That worries...
...before. His native South Africa once banned gambling but allowed it in tribal areas carved out by the apartheid-era white government for blacks to inhabit. Kerzner, who began his career as an accountant, opened the first hotel-casino in 1977 in Mmabatho, the capital of the homeland of Bophuthatswana, about 150 miles from Johannesburg. That year he began planning what would become the opulent Sun City resort-casino-entertainment-theme-park complex. When it opened in 1979, Sun City--with four hotels, a 6,000-seat arena and a 46-acre manmade lake for water sports--became a favored...
...state," says national police commissioner Jackie Selebi, "but we take any threat to peace seriously." It is possible that some of the extremists in the Farmers' Force may have broken away from the Afrikaner Resistance Movement (AWB), which attempted a coup in the apartheid-created black homeland state of Bophuthatswana in March 1994. The rebellion was put down and the whites were ignominiously routed as the country moved to majority black rule in May. The AWB tried to keep the spark of militancy alive, but in time became just another ugly, lost cause. Its leader, Eugene Terre'-Blanche, a choleric...