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Death and destruction. Looting and violence. Repression and response. The convulsions of a divided country's worst crisis in more than two decades intensified in South Africa last week. As the state of emergency continued in the black townships of the Johannesburg area and the eastern Cape, rioting erupted in townships surrounding the port city of Durban in Natal province, taking an additional 54 lives. But as the week ended, the country was alive with speculation that the white minority government of State President P.W. Botha was on the verge of making concessions that might, for the first time, affect...
...Harmony Gold and Gold Fields to life insurer Sanlam and Alexander Forbes Financial Services to banking giants ABSA and Standard Bank. The men are also buying playthings. Motsepe owns the Mamelodi Sundowns, one of South Africa's most successful soccer teams. Sexwale, who bought the Oude Kelder winery outside Cape Town in 2002, sponsors the national soccer league and is financing a South African entry on the A1 Grand Prix circuit. Later this year, he will appear in a South African version of The Apprentice, in the Donald Trump role...
Asked what South Africa requires today, Cape Businessman Jannie Momberg replies, "It may sound crazy, but what we need for the next ten years is enlightened dictatorship. Not for the black population, but for the whites. I think we're going to have to force through certain things against the whites for the sake of the country." If he were the President, says Momberg, "I'd bring Chief Buthelezi into my Cabinet. I'd scrap the bloody three-way Parliament and bring the whites, the Indians and the coloreds into one body, and then I'd look for a federal...
Since blacks are not allowed to vote, nobody knows for certain how popular the A.N.C. is among them, but it is generally assumed that the organization enjoys considerable strength with young activists in the Johannesburg and Eastern Cape townships. Four years ago, a poll by the English-language Johannesburg Star indicated that 40% of blacks in the major cities would vote for the A.N.C. and 76% considered Mandela the most popular political leader. A survey last March by City Press, a black newspaper in Johannesburg, also put Mandela...
DIED. Joseph C. ("Mickey") Shaughnessy, 64, comic actor whose instantly identifiable mug betokened deftly played stereotypes, usually a sailor, a thug or an Irishman, in 40 movies, including From Here to Eternity (1953), Jailhouse Rock and Don 't Go Near the Water (both 1957); of lung cancer; in Cape May Court House...