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...ease. "I miss the chickens that used to play on the ground at home," said Ntomb'khona Dlamini, 17, the tiniest cast member at less than 5 ft. Her television is turned to MTV, where the rockers gyrate in Day-Glo. Daughter of an evangelical preacher in Umlazi, outside Durban, she sang in a choir with her sister and four brothers. "In South Africa I didn't know Broadway was so famous," she sighs. "I didn't know it was the end of the world...
...Seidman '78, an Overseer and formerpresident of the Crimson, is writing adissertation in sociology at the University ofCalifornia at Berkeley, comparing labor movementsin South Africa and Brazil. She is grateful toGarth, Megan and Gavin for pointing outHuntington's contributions in South Africa.PhotoThemba NkosiSouth African workers in Durban in December,1985 celebrating the creation of a new democraticmovement, the Congress of South African TradeUnions...
...violence was not limited to Johannesburg. In Umlazi, a black township outside the Indian Ocean port of Durban, riot police hunting suspected terrorists surrounded a house and ordered the occupants to leave the building. One man came out shooting, officials said, but police gunfire drove him back inside. Another man opened fire from a window and was shot dead. Police flung hand grenades into the house and set it afire. Inside the ruins they found two corpses and a cache of AK-47 assault rifles...
Murphy talked with a broad range of educators and Black political leaders in Capetown, Durban and Johannesburg about the proposals, he said. In addition, he spoke with white educators, including faculty at Stellenbosh University, an Afrikaans school in Capetown...
...sprawling black township outside Johannesburg, on New Year's Day. Steve Kgame, a well-known community leader in the Soweto-Witwatersrand area who has faced demands from radicals to quit his local government post, was in serious condition last week with gunshot wounds in the head and chest. Near Durban, two officials of Inkatha, a political organization made up mainly of members of the Zulu tribe, died earlier this month after fire bombs struck their homes. Outside Port Elizabeth, a vengeful mob last week murdered two youths in the Kwanobuhle township. Nearly 80 gold miners have been killed during...