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Something Out There covers the broad swath of Johannesburg suburbs, where two strange things are happening at the same time. One of them makes the headlines. A mysterious creature seems to be roaming over manicured lawns. House pets have been found mauled or killed, swimming pools disturbed by unexplained rustling in surrounding trees. The more serious menace goes unrecognized and unheralded. A seemingly harmless white couple rent a house and are secretly joined there by two black men in a plot to blow up a nearby power station...
These findings were included in the annual report of the South African Institute of Race Relations, a widely respected private organization in Johannesburg. The study revealed the high cost of white supremacy. In 336 industrial disputes last year, 64,469 workers went on strike over low pay and working conditions, resulting in the loss of nearly a million man hours. Every 2.5 minutes, a non-white was arrested for violating pass laws that restrict where blacks may travel. Yet another statistic must have given supporters of apartheid cause for alarm: more people died or were injured from acts of sabotage...
...Zwelakhe Sisulu--political reporter with The Sowetan in Johannesburg, South Africa...
...headline in one Johannesburg paper almost shouted the news: P.W. LEADS SOUTH AFRICA OUT OF ISOLATION...
...announced a lavish scheme to furnish his dirt-poor homeland with an international airport, a harbor and an air force. Such tragicomic aspirations and the tyrannical rule that enforces them have made Sebe's fief something of an embarrassment even to its stepmother. Said the moderate Johannesburg Star: "Ciskei has become a byword for all the worst excesses of banana republics...