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...violence that continued to rack the black townships outside Johannesburg last week took no account of the significance of a forthcoming event that could eventually change the complexion of South Africa's policy of racial discrimination. This week in the city of Cape Town, where white settlers first landed 332 years ago, the whites' absolute monopoly on the country's political power will come to a theoretical end. Representatives of South Africa's 2.8 million "coloreds," or people of mixed race, and its 850,000 Indians will formally take their seats in a new tricameral Parliament...
...very day that the country's new constitution went into effect, rioting broke out in several black residential areas outside Johannesburg, the country's largest city. A major site of the trouble was Sharpeville, the township where in 1960 South African police fired machine guns into a crowd of peaceful demonstrators, killing 69 blacks. This time, angry crowds set buildings on fire and threw stones at police in troop carriers, while air force helicopters hovered overhead. After police had moved in with tear gas and attack dogs, they found a scene of death and devastation. Four blacks...
Last week's unrest was not restricted to the black townships. A bomb ripped through the Johannesburg offices of the Department of Internal Affairs, injuring four people. It was the latest in a series of terrorist acts that have afflicted the city since June 15, the eve of the anniversary of the Soweto riots. Two days later another explosion hit an electrical substation 65 miles to the northwest of the city. At almost the same time, police discovered a powerful limpet mine, made of plastic explosives, that had been placed in the building that houses the Rand Supreme Court...
Opposition turned violent near Johannesburg, where more than 100 people were injured as police used tear gas and sjamboks (whips made of hide) against Indian demonstrators. Prime Minister Pieter W. Botha is nonetheless determined to proceed with the three-part Parliament, which will begin deliberations in Cape Town later this month...
...time has not yet come, and may never come for such a team. For the moment, these two will have to suffice, and they will surely not sway the racist government in Johannesburg from what it sees as its appointed course. But their presence sends a clear signal that if their country cannot participate, its native-born athletes can and will, drawing attention to their adopted nations, and to the abhorrent nature of the South African government...