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...would go for five times that amount on the outskirts of Washington or in New York's Westchester county. The tree-shaded, flower-filled white suburbs are as glistening, and the shopping malls as spectacular, as ever. In the jammed parking lot of Sandton City, a luxury mall outside Johannesburg, the bumper sticker of a cream- colored Mercedes last week carried these words: WHEN THINGS GET TOUGH, THE TOUGH GO SHOPPING...
...least one live-in maid, and, with monthly wages running around $60, many have a cook or gardener as well. The thought of doing without household help seems to panic the whites almost as much as the slogan "One Man, One Vote." The young wife of a lawyer in Johannesburg, who is also the mother of two small children, was recently discussing possible emigration to the U.S. When told what a maid would cost in Washington or New York, she closed the conversation by saying "Then I guess I can't go. I have two maids here...
Still, notes former Johannesburg Mayor Monty Sklaar, "you find a terrible anti-black attitude among the lower-income groups. Part of the problem is that they see blacks as a threat to their jobs, and it's getting worse." Jacob Kruger, the owner of a Port Elizabeth engineering company, says he is optimistic about some of the recent reforms but pessimistic about a hardening white attitude that seems to him to be saying "The West has deserted us, so we'll go it alone and do it our way." Concludes Kruger: "I'm afraid that if this attitude wins...
...control. But the country appeared to be relatively quiet--at least insofar as could be determined by the press, which under the de facto censorship was more or less obliged to take the Botha government's word for it. A series of minor terrorist explosions took place in Durban, Johannesburg and the Eastern Cape, and at week's end police killed four black guerrillas near the Botswana border. Wildcat strikes and worker "stayaways" continued in about 100 supermarkets and other retail stores, underscoring reports that around 180 union officials remained in detention, along with perhaps 1,600 other blacks...
...addition to a CBS cameraman who had already left the country, two more journalists were expelled: Richard Manning, the Newsweek bureau chief in Johannesburg, and Dan Sagir, an Israeli who represented the newspaper Ha'aretz. From Amnesty International, the London-based human rights organization, came reports of three more raids on black churches and the detention of entire congregations. Amnesty International also reported that Zwelakhe Sisulu, a black South African editor and member of a prominent activist family, had been arrested...