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...routine by-election in Germiston, a working-class suburb of Johannesburg, should have been a shoo-in for Prime Minister Pieter W. Botha's National Party. Instead, Flip van der Walt, 63, barely won, carrying the district by a mere 308 of the 9,111 ballots cast. The vote reflects deep, corrosive divisions among South African whites over the country's future direction. The Rand Daily Mail judged the outcome the nation's "biggest electoral shock since 1948," when the National Party swept to power under the banner of white supremacy...
...started in the first round of the South African P.G.A. tournament at Germiston, when both Sewgolum and South Africa's U.S. Open Champion Gary Player drew heavy galleries of whites and nonwhites. Police tried to chase off the nonwhites but got nowhere. So, as the second round opened the next day, the government hauled out its trusty racial iron and took a hefty swing. Police enforced tighter separation of the crowds, posted two agents with Sewgolum to keep the whites at a safe distance, and summarily banned Sewgolum from any further tournaments after the South African P.G.A., including...
SOUTH AFRICA New Recruit A curly-haired British South African, awkward on his crutches after an automobile accident that shattered his right leg, hopped out of a green car one day last week at the entrance to Germiston Negro location, a sprawl of tin huts 15 miles east of Johannesburg. He was the first white recruit-and quite a catch-for the Passive Resistance campaign, organized by blacks, half-whites and browns against Prime Minister Daniel Malan's racial segregation laws...
...Young in Heart. In Meridian, Miss., citizens turned out to welcome George L. Howe, 94, as he passed through town on a cross-country bicycle tour. In Germiston, South Africa, Peter Pringle, 118, explained why he had shaved off his beard: it made him "feel too old." In Bristol, England, Ada Ramsbotham took the occasion of her 104th birthday to reveal the secret of her longevity: "I never had a husband...