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...another railroad clash, in Germiston east of Johannesburg, police killed three more union demonstrators. The police said they were attacked by workers wielding knives and throwing stones; union leaders insisted the police had stormed into the crowd with whips...
...Soweto, anonymous pamphlets called for a three-day general work stoppage to protest municipal police actions against rent-strikers. Thousands stayed home from jobs and school, some out of fear. Black militants stoned buses until all bus and taxi service between Soweto and Johannesburg temporarily shut down...
...violence was not limited to Johannesburg. In Umlazi, a black township outside the Indian Ocean port of Durban, riot police hunting suspected terrorists surrounded a house and ordered the occupants to leave the building. One man came out shooting, officials said, but police gunfire drove him back inside. Another man opened fire from a window and was shot dead. Police flung hand grenades into the house and set it afire. Inside the ruins they found two corpses and a cache of AK-47 assault rifles...
...housewife living near Johannesburg who did not want her name used: "If the leaders tell us that blacks can live next door, what can I do? If they are clean and not noisy, I won't object. But I hope my children finish school before the blacks are allowed...
...segregation laws of the 1950s, was the fantasy that South Africa's blacks could be legally assigned to ten autonomous tribal homelands and then admitted to white South Africa only as migrant workers, not citizens. The realities of urbanization mock that fantasy, and anyone wandering around Cape Town or Johannesburg today can see blacks sitting next to whites in restaurants or lining up in the same banking queue to be served by a black teller. Nobody is surprised to observe a black traffic policeman ticketing a white who ran a stop sign, or even a black-and-white couple holding...