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...fuel storage tanks at South Africa's SASOL coal liquefaction plant, the most spectacular guerrilla attack ever staged in the country, with damage estimated at $7.2 million. Shabangu had thrown a grenade into the home of a black policeman in the sprawling black township of Soweto, near Johannesburg. Tsotsobe had been involved in an armed assault on a Johannesburg police station and in several bombings. As the authorities made clear during the trial, the three men were only part of an increasingly warlike campaign against the government: there have been 38 ANC attacks in South Africa this year...
...American involvement in Viet Nam and reported on Iran from the overthrow of the Shah until the arrival of Ayatullah Khomeini. Before moving to Miami to take charge of TIME's new Caribbean bureau last fall, he served for 3½ years as bureau chief in Johannesburg, a base from which he covered the painful birth of Zimbabwe as a nation. While he traced the subtle web of oppression in Argentine life, McWhirter's most poignant revelations came from Jewish émigrés who survived Nazi concentration camps only to have relatives join "the disappeared ones...
Oppenheimer and his wife Bridget live in a style befitting their wealth. Home is a colonial mansion surrounded by formal gardens in a northern suburb of Johannesburg. Decorations include paintings by Chagall, Goya, Renoir and Picasso, and bookshelves are lined with first editions of Lord Byron and other poets. Oppenheimer owns a stud farm where he raises prize race horses, and a 900-acre game preserve in eastern Transvaal...
From the outset, however, the celebrations ran afoul of the country's bitter, racially divided heritage. At Johannesburg's University of the Witwatersrand, black and white students boycotted classes to protest the festival and set off three days of demonstrations, flag burnings and brawls. On the outskirts of the city, police fired tear gas and waded into crowds of demonstrators with dogs and sjamboks, quirts traditionally used by Afrikaner farmers and originally made of rhino hide. Soon more than 50 organizations with a total membership in the millions were formally boycotting the festivities. Declared an ad hoc committee...
Just before the nation's schoolchildren were let out for a five-day holiday to join in the festivities, the resentment turned into outright violence. Sections of railroad were blown up by terrorist bombs outside Johannesburg and Durban. In East London, black nationalist guerrillas lobbed a hand grenade into a police station and raked the building with automatic-rifle fire. Two days later, other saboteurs set off an explosive device at a South African Defense Force recruiting center in Durban...