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...three representatives, Peter Hunter, Fanyana Mazibuko, and Ezekiel Mphahlele, are university professors in South Africa and members of the Educational Opportunity Committee (EOC) in Johannesburg, Lawrence F. Stevens '65, secretary of the Advisory Committee on Sharenolder Responsibility (ACSR), said yesterday...
Even the best intentions on the guerrillas' side could not hide misgivings among their own senior military commanders. Several officers admitted they were having problems persuading the rank and file to accept the cease-fire order. One top ZANLA officer who returned to Rhodesia last week told TIME Johannesburg Bureau Chief William McWhirter. "Our boys live in the field. You have to get to them. The leaders and the boys have to meet face to face. The war has created a lot of doubts and fear in everybody's mind. We are concerned that the British want...
Instead of concentrating their organizing efforts on black academics, intellectuals or the young, as they have in the past, the leaders of black activist groups in Port Elizabeth and Soweto, the black township outside Johannesburg, are now focusing on factory workers. Because black labor is essential to South Africa's economy, strikes by blacks constitute a potentially powerful weapon. Though Thozamile Botha, who heads the Port Elizabeth Black Civic Organization (PEBCO), concedes that Ford is perhaps the "best" employer of blacks in the country, he has been prodding its management to respond to a long list of demands...
...What's the word? Johannesburg!" no longer fills our ears...
...first interview with an American publication since becoming Prime Minister a little over a year ago, Botha last week outlined his reforms to TIME Johannesburg Bureau Chief William McWhirter. Seated behind a desk decorated with a statue of an early pioneer, the unsmiling Nationalist leader made clear that South Africa's reforms will in no way affect the principle of white sovereignty in a white state. Excerpts from the 90-min. talk...