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...whites whom Nationalist Minister of Justice Charles Swart happens to dislike is voluble little Emil Solomon ("Solly") Sachs, 50, former secretary of Johannesburg's militantly anti-Communist Garment Workers' Union. Solly's principal crime in the minister's eyes is that his union has a mixed membership...
...cash to support the diamond market in a price break. Sir Ernest Oppenheimer's son Harry flew to Williamson's mine in Tanganyika to lure him back. But Williamson, a diamond-hard bargainer, could not be cracked. So tough old Sir Ernest himself took charge. In Johannesburg last week, Sir Ernest announced the result: Williamson had agreed to start selling through the cartel again. The terms of the new agreement were secret, but it was a good bet that Williamson had come out all right...
...Johannesburg, South Africa
Campbell worked on a paper in the wool port town of East London until 1944. A book he wrote on South African war problems (Smuts and Swastika) brought him to the attention of South Africa's leading newspaper, the Johannesburg Star, which hired him as an editorial writer. In April 1950 he began working as a part-time correspondent for TIME, and in April 1951 he became a staff correspondent...
...formal order last week, the government forbade Sachs to hold any public meetings. His reply was to summon his unionists to a fiery protest meeting outside the Johannesburg City Hall. Twelve thousand turned up, bearing banners: "Solly helped us, now let us help him." According to the police, they also brought a car loaded with empty bottles. Soon after Sachs began to speak, police charged forward, armed with revolvers and truncheons. While screaming women battered them with sticks, bottles, and legs torn off tables and chairs, the police dragged Sachs inside the City Hall, barricaded the main door, and then...