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...public meetings for six weeks and rushed through a new law permitting anyone's arrest and imprisonment for twelve days without bail or trial. Police squads were already rounding up all the suspicious-looking natives they could find, soon had more than 5,000 in their net. At Fordsburg, near Johannesburg, 700 arrested Africans were corralled in outdoor cages. To back up the cops, groups of white vigilantes in Cape Town began making forays into colored neighborhoods, hurled stones and gasoline bombs in an effort to intimidate colored families. White clerks and industrial workers were joining pistol-shooting classes...
...stream of well-armed cops, backed by armored cars, moved into the teeming native slums of South Africa's main cities. Army reinforcements stood ready at strategic points. But no trouble came. In Johannesburg's "Freedom Square," a dilapidated vacant lot in the Indian-African slum of Fordsburg, only 4,000 blacks showed up, instead of the 100,000 predicted. In & out among them flitted white Communist agitators, jangling collection boxes and spouting pat phrases about "U.S. imperialism in Asia." Sturdy Dr. Moroka (who is not a Communist) climbed up on a platform built of empty beer boxes...
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