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...Great Hall at Johannesburg's University of the Witwatersrand (the only place in the city where an opera-sized production could be staged before a mixed audience). King Kong was an instant hit, and played before 120,000 persons-two-thirds of them white-in Johannesburg, Durban, Port Elizabeth, and Cape Town. Then, as now in London, heavyweight Jazz Singer Nathan M'dledle (pronounced Muh-dead-ly) played "the King." His girl was played by Miriam Makeba, whose success in the role catapulted her to solo spots in U.S. nightclubs; she has been replaced in the opera...
...nationwide referendum on the question. But Parliament rang with the hot passions of the Boer War. Nationalist newspapers exhorted Afrikaners to contribute toward a $420,000 fund to carry on the republic campaign. But in Natal, the stronghold of the English-speaking population, thousands of antirepublicans flocked to Durban's electoral offices to check their registrations for the vote expected in October...
...Passes. By week's end, the "locations" at both Cape Town and Durban were cowed. Most workers were back at their jobs, and the hapless blacks who had burned their passes in the first emotional days of violence were lamely queueing up for new ones (at $2.80 apiece) at government offices. Without the hated passbooks, no job was possible, for the authorities were warning white employers of severe penalties for hiring workers without them...
...Beaches. Until the shots ripped into Hendrik Verwoerd's face, many whites could still remain unconcerned. The beaches and cocktail lounges of Durban were crowded with holidaying Transvaalers oblivious of the violence on the city's outskirts, and in bustling Johannesburg, business went on much as usual. But even among the whites, opposition to Verwoerd's policies was growing. For the first time, Afrikaner and English-speaking business groups spoke out. Their objection was simple: the disturbances were jeopardizing the economy. Jan Moolman, chairman of the Wool Board, called on the government to "amend their policies...
Churchmen were in the vanguard of the demands for reform, except for the Afrikaner Dutch Reformed leaders, who remained silent. Durban's Roman Catholic Archbishop Denis Hurley warned bluntly that "Africans are determined to have political participation in their future, and I don't see how white South Africa can face up to it fast enough." The Anglican archbishop of Cape Town, Netherlands-born Joost de Blank, announced that he was sending a representative to Geneva to ask the World Council of Churches to expel the South African Dutch Reformed Church unless it takes a stand against Verwoerd...