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...only a small courtesy, but it changed the young man's life. One day in a black shantytown near Johannesburg, South Africa, Primary Schoolteacher Desmond Mpilo Tutu saw a white man respectfully tip his hat to a black woman. Tutu had never seen a white make such a gesture. The woman was Tutu's mother; the white was the Rev. Trevor Huddleston, now an Anglican bishop. The priest subsequently befriended the young black, and after Tutu was hospitalized in 1953 for tuberculosis, Huddleston visited him daily for 20 months. Tutu, profoundly impressed, followed his white friend into...
...South Africa's new constitution went into effect and Prime Minister P. (for Pieter) W. Botha, 68, was chosen as the country's powerful new Executive President. Rioting swept the black town ships in an area known as the Vaal triangle, to the south and east of Johannesburg, resulting in the deaths of at least 31 people. While the unrest was sparked by rent increases of 15% to 20% for government-owned housing, at the root of the rebellious mood was the fact that the country's 23 million blacks, who make up about...
...violence continued through last week, largely concentrated in Soweto, the sprawling, densely populated township eight miles south of Johannesburg that was the center of racial unrest in 1976. A worried government put a ban into effect in 21 black urban areas on all indoor meetings called to criticize or even discuss government policy; outdoor meetings on such subjects have long been banned. Nonetheless, a large crowd gathered at Soweto's Regina Mundi Church for a prayer meeting to commemorate the death of Steven Biko, a black student leader who died in a South African prison seven years ago. Police...
Despite the severity of the detention laws, much of the abrasiveness of petty apartheid is gradually disappearing from city life, in part because of criticism from Western countries and in part, perhaps, because the rules of social apartheid are just too complicated and arbitrary to enforce. In Johannesburg today, a black couple, visiting from the "independent" homeland of Bophuthatswana, can be seen drinking tea in the lounge of the Carlton Hotel. Restaurants, hotels, shops and offices have become largely multiracial in character. Black traffic cops give out tickets to white motorists. At lunchtime, black secretaries share hot dogs and Cokes...
...market. Because of the need for skilled workers, the exclusion of blacks from certain jobs in private industry has largely ended. Black unions have been legalized. Most, though not all, companies have a policy of equal pay for equal work. However, what is true in cities like Johannesburg is not necessarily true in more conservative areas. Petty apartheid still flourishes in the rural bastions of the Afrikaners and in the English redoubts around Durban, where rules governing whites-only beaches remain intact...