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...after an emotional 70-minute meeting last week with Winnie Mandela, wife of Nelson Mandela, the imprisoned South African black activist. Winnie Mandela also admitted to being moved by the American's visit to her red brick home in Soweto, the sprawling black township on the outskirts of Johannesburg. Calling King "a symbol of what my people continue sacrificing for," she added, "We draw a great deal of inspiration from her strength and courage." For King, who was in South Africa for the installation of Desmond Tutu as Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, the highly charged meeting...
...three youths were shot by four men whose car they had tried to force from the highway leading from the township. The unrest forced most people to abide by the work stoppage. In Soweto, road traffic halted and shops remained closed. The Labor Monitoring Group, an independent agency in Johannesburg, reported that 72% of Sowetans who work in manufacturing and 85% employed in the retail sector did not show up for their jobs...
Desmond Tutu, the Nobel Peace-prizewinning bishop of Johannesburg, last week bid an emotional goodbye to his diocese. But before taking over as Archbishop of Cape Town and primate of the Anglican Church for all of southern Africa, he conducted a final service at St. Paul's Church in the black township of Soweto. In his farewell sermon, Tutu declared, "Despite all that the powers of the world may do, we are going to be free...
...significant service to his black countrymen. More than any other South African of his generation, Tutu has dramatized to the world the iniquities of apartheid. Some South African whites complain that he travels too much, saying his role within the country is vastly exaggerated abroad. The Sunday Times of Johannesburg reports that he has taken 22 trips outside South Africa in the past three years...
...recent months, Tutu's speeches have become more and more fatalistic. Just before becoming archbishop, he told TIME's Johannesburg bureau chief, Bruce Nelan, "I think the white ruling class is quite ready to do a Samson on us. That is, they will pull down the pillars, even if it means they perish in the process. They are really scared that we are going to treat them as they treated...