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Without Commonwealth preference, the sugar industry might lose a market worth $20 million. Prices tumbled on the Johannesburg stock exchange...
Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd's walkout from the Commonwealth sent a tremor through the Union of South Africa. Many of the English-speaking minority felt a sinking sensation as their last link with Britain was severed. Diamond Magnate Harry Oppenheimer called the news "appalling." Said Johannesburg's Englishlanguage Star: "A time of deep sadness for all South Africans except the Afrikaner extremist whose hostility to all things English was not appeased by the break with monarchy." The Cape Times said: "Now we are a lonely little republic at the foot of turbulent Africa...
World's Polecat. Nonwhites reacted delightedly to what they saw as a crushing Verwoerd defeat. On trains and buses carrying them from their "locations" to jobs in Johannesburg, Africans cried to each other. "Marvelous!" "Wonderful!" In house arrest at Groutville, 35 miles from Durban. Tribal Chieftain Albert Luthuli was "overjoyed" to know that "the Commonwealth stands for emancipation of all people everywhere, and especially in a former British colony." An exultant black told a rally, "South Africa has been publicly declared the polecat of the world...
When the guns of South Africa's Nationalist police mowed down hundreds of black "rioters" at Sharpeville last March. Richard Ambrose Reeves. 61. Anglican bishop of Johannesburg, rushed to the scene. He talked to the wounded in their hospital beds. Later he announced his findings: none of the rioters had been armed: many had been shot in the back. Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd's Afrikaner government decided that Bishop Reeves was a threat to South Africa's security. Warned of his impending arrest. the bishop fled to England, started work on a book: Shooting at Sharpeville...
...Miss Gordimer is one of a small number of internationally-recognized South African novelists and short-story writers. Born in Johannesburg, she has lived there all her life, taking the materials for her stories and novels from the geographical environment in which she found herself. As Miss Gordimer recalls it, she grew naturally into her profession. "I've always written," she reminisces with a smile. "At the age of nine or ten I used to write my own newspaper for my own amusement--editorials, sports, society column and all." But her interest in newspaper-writing was short-lived...