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Last week, on the Durban-Johannesburg highway, Nelson Mandela's car was stopped by a police roadblock. Acting on an informer's tip, the cops had finally got their...
...Boston group, the World Affairs Council, withdrew from its position as co-sponsor and sent out letters of protest to the participating schools. According to Richard A. Durban '63, president of the Harvard Council, two schools then sent in notices cancelling their participation, but after further communications with Durban's group, agreed to continue to participate...
According to a dispatch in yesterday's New York Times, Peter de Lissovoy '64 and a South African journalist were charged with entering the Durban reserve without a permit. They had entered the reserve to take Albert John Luthuli, a Nobel peace prize winner, to his home...
...Pretoria. She was a clerk, he a local merchant who came in on official business. Soon they were going out to movies together; finally, they drove up to Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia, and got married. But three weeks after the couple returned to South Africa and set up housekeeping in Durban, two detectives knocked at the door and took them off to the police station. Reason: Charlotte Bloem, 22, was white, and Syrub Singh, 28, was an Indian...
...Syrub Singh, the Indian, and his new white wife Charlotte, who had taken the Hindu faith, stood proudly in the dock last week in Durban's regional court. The prosecutor sought to prove that the Singhs' marriage did not exist since South Africa's Mixed Marriages Act rendered it automatically invalid. Thus, he argued, the "unmarried" couple, by living together, had violated the Immorality Act. The defense attorney retorted that the Singhs were indeed legally married since South Africa's legislation could hardly apply in Southern Rhodesia, where the wedding took place. As they awaited...