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...past year has been deeply troubling for South Africa. The rioting that began last June in Johannesburg's black ghetto of Soweto (pop. 1.2 million) and quickly spread to other black townships around the country has taken 500 lives so far-and sputters on. Guerrilla raids continue in the northern portion of Namibia, which South Africa has administered (as South West Africa) since 1920. Under international pressure, South Africa is now trying to set Namibia free, but only under a moderate government that would cause the South Africans no trouble. The hitch is that the only Namibian political group...
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...young demonstrators in last year's riots in Soweto and other black townships, which left 500 dead. Blacks able to afford a good education have been pressing to enter the nation's 169 private schools. Says one colored girl in a newly integrated convent school in Johannesburg: "I feel I'm really getting an education now. Going to school before was just an exercise...
...Methodists (2.1 million) have also announced plans to integrate their four schools. The powerful Dutch Reformed Church (3.5 million) remains strongly segregationist, however. The churches that are moving toward integration have won voluble backing in the more liberal newspapers. "For God's sake leave them alone!" trumpeted one, Johannesburg's Sunday Express...
...objection to Ipi-Tombi might be that it seems rather closer to Shubert Alley than to the tribal life and customs of the Zulus. The story line is simplicity itself. A young man (Daniel Pule) who lives in the village of Tsomo is drawn to the big city (presumably Johannesburg) in the hope of earning more money for his wife (Linda Tshabalala) and family. He finds urban life unappetizing and dehumanizing and returns to his hometown. That a simple, unspoiled child of nature can be corrupted by urban industrial life is a longstanding cliché of Western civilization. The simplicity...