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Bearing staffs and walking with purpose, 25 South African churchmen of all races, led by Bishop Desmond Tutu, winner of the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize, marched on Johannesburg's police headquarters last week. There they lodged a protest against the government's six-month-long detention of a black priest. A week earlier 239 demonstrators in a similar march in Cape Town had been arrested; this time policemen simply took names and photographs while the clergymen sang hymns...
...Kwanobuhle, an impoverished black settlement of about 50,000, a mob descended upon the home of a black town councilor, hacked the man, his two sons and two employees to death, torched the house, then dragged the charred corpses into the open, where youngsters chanted around them. "Enough!" pleaded Johannesburg's Rand Daily Mail. "This country is tearing itself apart. We are writing our history in blood...
...second of several demonstrations this week protesting Harvard's investments in companies which the business in South Africa, 30 Law School students yesterday marched from campus to Massachusetts Hall, waving banners and chatting. "Derek Bok's" get the word, this is not Johannesburg...
History seemed to be repeating itself, and more bleak ironies were piled high on a country already burdened with too many. Last Thursday marked the 25th anniversary of the massacre at Sharpeville, when police killed 69 blacks in the township 40 miles south of Johannesburg. That watershed conflict was still a vivid memory to many blacks in Langa, another township 25 miles from the southeast coastal city of Port Elizabeth. There, crowds defied a government ban on public gatherings to hold a procession in honor of three blacks who had been killed in clashes with police the previous weekend...
...American companies in South Africa are propping up a racist regime. In downtown Johannesburg, on one street you see a 'whites only' sign, and then on the next a Coke billboard," Ball says...