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...policy works as a device for deflecting future claims by blacks to power in Pretoria, it will do nothing to ameliorate a more immediate problem for the regime: growing anti-white rage among the urban blacks needed to run the South African economy. In Soweto (pop. 1 million), near Johannesburg, less than a third of the blacks' dwellings have electric lights; less than a tenth have running water. In the slum sections, robbery and rape are commonplace; says a woman from the Naledi section of Soweto: "I pray we could have daylight for all 24 hours; people die here when...
...carry a passbook at all times) as "unjust humiliation." In the meantime, however, South Africans have taken out more than 200,000 new firearms licenses in the past year, bringing the total to nearly 1.2 million for the 4.3 million whites. "If I had them," boasts a Johannesburg gunsmith, "I could sell 1,000 pistols today...
...pending transition of power in Salisbury raises profound questions about the future of South Africa, where unrest in the black urban townships has continued sporadically since June; last week racial violence spread to downtown Johannesburg for the first time. In Rhodesia, the immediate question is whether the rival black factions can get together to help form a government. At present there are at least six candidates for the leadership of an independent Zimbabwe, as African nationalists have long called Rhodesia. Among these, the best known-and probably the most moderate-is Joshua Nkomo, 59, who negotiated inconclusively with Smith...
...black honor guard, were on hand to greet Henry Kissinger as he arrived in the South African capital of Pretoria late last week on the third stop of his latest effort at shuttle diplomacy. All week long sporadic rioting had continued in the nonwhite townships around Johannesburg and Cape Town, and a department store in downtown Johannesburg was fire-bombed-the first such act of urban terrorism in the country's history. Shortly before Kissinger's blue and white 707 touched down, police fired at demonstrators in Johannesburg's Soweto township, killing six students and wounding...
...crowd of 700 students. In Manenburg, mobs stoned police and threatened to attack nearby white areas; the cops responded with rifle and shotgun fire, killing at least 14. All told, more than 325 people have been killed throughout the country since violence broke out at Soweto township near Johannesburg last June 16. Of these, all but two were black or colored...