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...public disturbances or police actions in declared emergency areas. Print journalists have been required to have police escorts in turbulent townships. Despite the restraints, reporters have managed at times to slip undetected into restricted areas. But when racial violence erupted last week in Alexandra, a black township near Johannesburg, the police and army clamped down on both print and broadcast journalists with new ferocity...
Several factors seemed to be behind the crackdown. To begin with, Alexandra lies just six miles north of downtown Johannesburg, where most news organizations are headquartered, giving reporters easy access to the story. Officials did not want Alexandra swarming with journalists who would upset the picture of relative calm that for no apparent reason other than simple exhaustion on the part of protesters, seems to have settled over South Africa in recent weeks. Moreover, the mile-square township is hemmed in on three sides by light industrial complexes and on the fourth by white suburbs. The outbreak of violence...
Meanwhile, a regional court in Krugersdorp, west of Johannesburg, withdrew charges against Winnie Mandela, the wife of jailed Black Leader Nelson Mandela, for violating her banning order, a legal device that places restrictions on her movements. Mandela is currently challenging the validity of the banning order before South Africa's Supreme Court. If the ban is upheld, the charges in the regional court may be reactivated. Even less clear is the disposition of investigations opened into the activities of several journalists. If formal charges are brought, it will be the first time that journalists have been criminally charged since...
They point to traces of the movement which periodically appeared this fall--an October rally against divestment, a lecture by Johannesburg Bishop Desmond M. Tutu, attempts by Southern African Solidarity Committee (SASC) members to meet with Bok and members of the Corporation, and the much publicized SASC report on the university's South Africa internship program...
Science Education Project, Johannesburg:Internship--candidates to be involved in helpingupgrade secondary school science curriculum...