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Doughty Helen. Verwoerd has never been stronger, in fact. Swallowing his old hatred of British South Africans, he has ventured into such English-speaking bastions as Durban to woo support for his policies, and his theme that all whites must unite behind him or be dispossessed by the Bantu usually gets a standing ovation and cries of "Hear, hear!" In Parliament, the once powerful United Party has been reduced to 39 seats. As an opposition party, Verwoerd once described it as "nothingness-both topless and bottomless." He is not far off. Its leader, Sir De Villiers Graaff, offers vague motions...
...part, Kennedy shook every hand in sight-white, black and brown (and on one occasion scared the daylights out of a black who thought the big bwana was going to hit him). In Durban, Kennedy stood atop a car and sang We Shall Overcome with his audience. In Groutville, he visited Albert Luthuli, the Nobel Peace Prize winner and leader of the proscribed African National Congress. At Cape Town University, standing next to the symbolic empty chair that Ian Robertson could not occupy, Kennedy told his racially mixed audience: "We must recognize the full human equality of all our people...
Fischer was no sooner sentenced than thousands of poster-waving university Students (WHERE HAVE ALL THE FREEDOMS GONE?) took to the streets in Durban, Johannesburg, Cape Town and Grahamstown, protesting still another example of South African justice. The recipient this time was Ian Robertson, 21-year-old president of the 20,000-member National Union of South African Students, who was suddenly put under a five-year ban that prohibits him from joining in N.U.S.A.S. activities, leaving the Cape Town municipal area and teaching, once he gets his law degree. Robertson's apparent crime was to invite Senator Bobby...
...finally docked in the Portuguese port of Beira, terminus of an oil pipeline to Rhodesia. There, separated from the end of the pipeline by only 30 ft., it waited. Several hundred miles to the south its sister ship Manuela set a course out of the South African port of Durban-destination unknown...
Slowly, the British were making their point that shipping oil to Rhodesia is a risky operation. Serving notice that Britain meant to use its U.N.-granted powers, the British frigate Berwick had intercepted the Manuela 150 miles from Beira and diverted it to Durban. Though Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd has repeatedly vowed that he would not honor the British embargo, he had some second thoughts about permitting the Manuela to unload its oil for transshipment overland to Rhodesia-a highly expensive method for the Rhodesians but better than nothing. South Africa finally promised Britain that it would ban the Manuela...