Word: johannesburgers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...eleven. He explained it as an attempt "to bring a larger number of legal minds to bear on constitutional problems." Of the five new judges appointed, one has campaigned for the Nationalists in Cape Province and the rest are undistinguished, except in their loyalty to the Strydom regime. In Johannesburg, the Society of Advocates (a bar association) raised its voice in protest: "It is dangerous and unpatriotic to imperil, for the sake of mere political advantage, the great esteem in which our highest court is held." Editorialized the Rand Daily Mail: "History may yet record Monday, April...
...Johannesburg's sprawling slums a native Bible teacher recently quizzed his pupils on St. Stephen. "Who was Christianity's first martyr?" he asked. "Who spoke out against the authorities and defiantly affirmed his faith in God and Christ?" The answer came: "Fod Huddson! Fod Huddson...
...darkness of a South African summer morning last week, thousands of Johannesburg policemen-the whites armed with Sten guns and rifles, the blacks with clubs and spears-filed out of their barracks and drove in 300 trucks to a narrow strip of grassland that separates the white suburb of Westdene from the crowded Negro slum of Sophiatown. The cops marched quietly into the sleeping warren. Every 20 yards a policeman took up station. "We mustn't waken these bloody Kaffirs," warned one officer. "We'll shock them well enough after daylight...
Operation Sophiatown was neither a pogrom nor a Mau Mau roundup. It was the South African government's new, efficient way of enforcing its policy of apartheid (racial segregation). An all-African community with shops, churches and the only swimming pool for African kids in Johannesburg, Sophiatown is one of three "black spots" on the western side of the city, which the government has recently zoned as "predominantly European." For whites and Negroes to live in such close proximity strikes South Africa's Boer Nationalists as improper and possibly sinful...
...Pack. "It is the policy of this government that the native will not own any ground in any European area," announced Native Affairs Minister Verwoerd. He ordered 60,000 people to prepare to leave their homes and move out to new settlements a safe number of antiseptic miles from Johannesburg's whites. The first batch of 150 families got marching orders at 6 p.m. one evening. "Greetings," said the order. "Kindly pack your belongings and be ready to load at 6 a.m." It came three days earlier than expected, and was accompanied by a ban on all public gatherings...