Word: johannesburger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Johannesburg...
...Sept. 3 issue of TIME was banned in South Africa because of a story by Alexander Campbell, "A Report from Johannesburg, City in Terror . .." It so happens that it was reprinted in the Cape Times in a message from their London correspondent, and my Negro messenger got hold of it and read it. The following conversation ensued...
...behalf of the 8,000,000 Bantu who do not (possibly cannot) read quality magazines, I would like to shout bayete! bayete! to TIME, Sept. 3 for putting its blunt finger on Johannesburg, South Africa's sorest spot...
...Johannesburg's 4,000 policemen do not dare patrol the locations. Instead, they raid them at regular intervals. A police party, strongly armed, will arrive in cars, nearly always late at night. They break into houses at random, demand "passes" (all Negroes must carry passes to prove they are employed by whites), and turn the houses upside down, looking for liquor. The armed police go in constant danger of their lives. A white policeman's wife writes: "It is no joke to lie awake at night and wonder if one's husband will come back safely...
...Malan government having reclassified as "serious" crime such offenses as assaulting the police and "promoting race hostility." Every month 14,000 Negroes are arrested under the pass laws and 15,500 under the liquor laws. On the Gold Reef, there are three murders every two days. Johannesburg, with a total population of 850,000, has twice the number of crimes committed in Greater London with a total population of more than...