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...world is Evangelist Billy Graham's parish. At his insistence the South African government temporarily abrogated its apartheid laws in order to let blacks and whites mix at an international conference in Durban on mission and evangelism. In his keynote address to the 1,500 delegates and observers, Graham last week described the gathering as a watershed: "You will never be the same. South Africa will never be the same." Later, before a Johannesburg rally for 80,000, the sometime White House preacher let off some steam about crime and punishment back home...
...possibility, however remote, of a revolt by South Africa's 16 million repressed blacks. Even an illegal strike by black workers for higher wages can send tremors through the country. Last week South Africa was quaking slightly, after a series of strikes that crippled the port city of Durban...
Among the 50,000 black strikers, the majority of them Zulu tribesmen, were 16,000 Durban municipal employees; their walkout caused litter to pile up in the streets and forced white housewives to perform the unaccustomed task of carting away their own garbage. At nearby Hammarsdale, where 7,00 blacks left their jobs, a crowd of 200 was dispersed by police with tear gas after the demonstrators had brandished clubs and chanted "Usutu!", a traditional Zulu...
White authorities feared that me Durban strikes would spread to other cities and particularly to the economically vital minefields, where the average white worker earns $475 a month and the average black receives $30. "The cry to raise wages is not peculiar to Durban," said Drake Koka, general secretary of the Black Allied Workers Union, calling for a "total overhaul of the South African labor system...
...week, many of the Durban strikers were returning to work, but their protest had left its mark on the country. As the Rand Daily Mail observed: "The Zulus have brought home to employers that they can no longer get away with appallingly low wages...