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...John's College, Johannesburg:Internship--English language teaching for theirBlack pupils...
...Namibia and are associated with a company that engages in illegal mining activities and has been internationally condemned--by the United Nations and the Catholic Church, among others--for a variety of workplace and business practices. The final two internships are with the racist government-run school system in Johannesburg...
...bloodshed, the unrest inside South Africa continued in fresh spasms of violence. Two white policemen were hacked and bludgeoned to death by a crowd of about 500 blacks when they tried to break up an unauthorized union meeting near Westonaria, a gold-mining complex 25 miles west of Johannesburg. Official reports said a shoot-out occurred between police reinforcements and blacks who grabbed the dead officers' weapons. Seven blacks were killed and at least 40 others wounded in the melee. The violence marked the first time that white police officers have been killed since the current wave of nationwide unrest...
Grinning broadly, their fists clenched in the air, six United Democratic Front leaders were greeted with cheers and shouts by the crowd that had gathered at Johannesburg's Central Methodist Church. As the leaders were embraced by Nobel Laureate Bishop Desmond Tutu, six other U.D.F. members received a similar reception 300 miles away in the coastal city of Durban. The occasion: the unexpected dismissal of treason charges against the twelve by the South African government. Though four of the 16 people on trial still face charges, the collapse of the case against most of them was a rare victory...
Today Gillette is a monstrous international conglomerate with plants from Johannesburg to Munich. The company does over $2 billion dollars of business every year, selling products that range from luxury fountain pens to ladies deodorant. Fully one third of the corporation's business, however, remains in the bedrock blades and razors division: the action end of the shaving process accounts for one third of Gillette's total sales and two thirds of its profit. The company dominates the U.S. shaving market supplying 60 percent of the country's blades and 70 percent of its razors--that's 1.3 billion blade...