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...whites might quarrel with the legality of an occasional South African raid on a neighboring country to strike at the black liberation movement, but the majority obviously approved of such actions. The last days of the campaign were marked by violence surrounding a strike by transport workers in the Johannesburg area and protests by black and white students at several universities. In such an atmosphere of unrest, white voters rushed to the parties that seemed to promise them security...
Most surprised and elated of all by the election results were the leaders of the Conservative Party. The Johannesburg regional chairman, Clive Derby- Lewis, said the party would now demand that the government enforce racial segregation in housing and reinstate the pass laws that restricted the migration of blacks to cities. Those laws, which are deeply hated by South African blacks, were repealed a year ago. Conservative Party Leader Andries Treurnicht declared that the election results "put us in a strong position for challenging the government on reform." With the Conservatives making such demands in their new role...
...black-led provincial government in cooperation with KwaZulu Chief Minister Mangosuthu Buthelezi. Worried about the future, large numbers of English-speaking South Africans, who normally are more liberal on racial issues than the Afrikaners, jumped this time from the Progressives to the National Party. Concluded an editorial in the Johannesburg newspaper Business Day: "English voters, sacrificing at last the role of keepers of a liberal flame, chose to liquidate themselves as an identifiable political force...
...only bright spot for liberals in the election returns was the showing of three reform-minded independent candidates. Wynand Malan, who quit the National Party in January to protest the government's slow changes on racial issues, scored an easy victory in Johannesburg's Randburg district. Denis Worrall, South Africa's former Ambassador to Britain, came within just 39 votes of beating Minister of Constitutional Development Chris Heunis, the architect of Botha's reform program and his possible successor, in Heunis' once safe Helderberg district near Cape Town. In the Afrikaner university town of Stellenbosch, another Nationalist defector, Esther Lategan...
Zwelakhe Sisulu, 37, editor of the Johannesburg-based New Nation, was selected Wednesday by a vote of the 20 members of the Nieman Fellow Class...