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...Soweto four years ago-except that this time the movement was led by coloreds. Responding to the boycott, the authorities last week arrested more than 248 people-including black Anglican Bishop Desmond Tutu and 52 other religious leaders who had joined him in a peaceful protest march in Johannesburg...
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...ABLE TO KEEP up an oppressive system you have to plug up the loopholes," Aggrey Klaaste, Nieman Fellow says. As news editor of one of South Africa's three Black papers, the Johannesburg Post, Klaaste's job is finding the holes the government hasn't closed. With the barrage of legislation restricting press freedom, it is a difficult and dangerous assignment. For Klaaste it has also become a mission...
...party won only 20 parliamentary seats, against Mugabe's 57. Though he immediately agreed to join forces with Mugabe in a coalition government, Nkomo turned down an offer of the figurehead presidency.* "I didn't think I was ready to neutralize my life," he explained to TIME Johannesburg Bureau Chief William McWhirter. When Mugabe decided to retain the strategic Defense portfolio for himself, Nkomo demanded control over the police. Mugabe finally agreed and gave Nkomo the Ministry of Home Affairs, with authority over the country's 8,000-man police force. Three other ministries and two deputy...
...spent much of the past seven years fighting the guerrillas, agreed to preside over the crucial task of integrating the armies of Mugabe and Joshua Nkomo into the regular Rhodesian security forces. Last week General Walls outlined his commitment to this assignment in an interview with TIME Johannesburg Bureau Chief William McWhirter. Excerpts...