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...seem more appropriate to a Dutch baker than a gruff police chief, Kruger last week extensively discussed details of the Biko case for the first time. Showing no outward emotion, the 59-year-old official patiently fielded questions in his wood-paneled Pretoria office during an interview with TIME Johannesburg Bureau Chief William McWhirter. Excerpts from their talk...
...movement, died as a result of injuries he received while in detention (TIME, Sept. 26), blacks and whites alike demanded the resignation of Justice Minister James Kruger for his callous handling of the case. At the same time, black unrest was fusing into a sustained campaign of resistance. In Johannesburg's Soweto ghetto, only 1,000 of 27,000 post-primary students and half their teachers showed up to register for the new school year; the dissidents are protesting the inferior system of "Bantu education...
South Africa's blacks lost a leader, but gained a martyr. Protests over Biko's death were widespread, this time among whites as well as blacks. At a rally inside the Johannesburg city hall, 2,000 members of the opposition Progressive Federal Party called for Kruger's ouster and repeal of the internal security laws. Kowie Marais, a prominent former judge and onetime member of the National Party, declared that Biko's death had made him a "complete and unequivocal enemy of the security legislation in South Africa." Even the pro-government weekly Rapport editorialized that...
...Soweto riots of June 1976, the country's credit position has been badly hurt-losing some $115 million monthly on short-term capital accounts. As a result of deepening recession, black unemployment ranges up to 40%, and some 200,000 eligible black workers are out of jobs in Johannesburg alone. The government has discouraged business investment by scare talk of "total war" and an "economy of survival." One survey of white Johannesburg university students showed that 72% of them wanted to emigrate...
Most of the 2.5 million coloreds live in the western Cape Province; there are also small pockets near Durban, Natal and Johannesburg. They generally speak Afrikaans, the language of the Dutch settlers. They have better employment opportunities-and are usually paid more-than blacks, particularly in the Cape, where many hold skilled or semiskilled jobs that would be reserved for whites in Johannesburg. But like blacks, and Asians, they are subject to rigid apartheid laws that designate where they may live, what public facilities they may use and that, of course, forbid them to marry whites...