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Soni, as a journalist in Durban, holds an M.A.from the University of Durban Westfall, one of six black universities controlled by the South African government...
...Africa for 80 years, but it has hired most of its 1,326 nonwhite employees (out of a total of 2,961) during the past eight. It has also striven to train and promote nonwhites. Now most of the supervisory jobs at the Mobil refineries in Cape Town and Durban are held by nonwhites...
Complains Ravindra Joshi, secretary of Durban's Institute for Industrial Education, which is pressing for the establishment of black unions: "The real problem is that black workers just don't have any say in their companies...
...Fanon, the black radical writer, that "you are rich because you are white, but you are also white because you are rich." A black beauty queen who won a holiday at a Cape hotel was refused accommodation because the hotel did not have international status. In a reshuffle of Durban's elaborately segregated beaches, Indians took over one formerly white beach but discovered they could not use the restaurant there; its designation had not been changed...
Under cover of darkness last week, South African police loosed the country's most draconian wave of repression in almost two decades. Cruising the predawn streets of ghettos from Durban and Cape Town to Soweto outside Johannesburg, they detained within hours many of the best-known black leaders in the country, more than 50 in all. In addition, under orders issued by Pretoria's Minister of Justice James Kruger, South Africa's largest black newspaper, The World (circ. 146,000), was banned and its editor, Percy Qoboza, jailed without charges...