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...that blacks be given the right to join unions and be paid the same wages as whites. Equal pay for equal work has been adopted by the city of Port Elizabeth, the Standard Bank and Barclay's Bank of London, and Polaroid. The idea has become, as the Johannesburg Star recently put it, "as fashionable as hot pants." But in many areas, it will take a long time to close the economic gap. White factory hands earn six times as much as blacks doing comparable work, white miners 17 times as much, and white teachers make more...
...Americans who are being expelled, including three Methodist missionaries and a Roman Catholic priest. But deportation is only one of the government tactics. Last week, South Africa's leading black clergyman, the Right Rev. Alpheus Zulu, Anglican Bishop of Zululand, was arrested at a church center outside Johannesburg and questioned at a police station for hours. He was finally charged with failure to have with him the passbook required of all blacks, but refused to pay a $7 fine and instead demanded the right to appear in court. Bishop Zulu, one of six presidents of the World Council...
...felt that they could combine Christianity with apartheid," notes Roman Catholic Archbishop Denis Hurley of Durban. "But as some Christians become more sensitive to the basic incompatibility between the two, they will force other white Christians to decide where they stand." That may already be happening. One group of Johannesburg Catholics petitioned their bishop for "clear direction . . . before Christian witness is silenced forever...
...South Africa. After a 16-day, 3,000-mile journey in the apartheid state, the head of the Anglican Communion was scarcely optimistic. "It would be premature to say that I believe that wrong was going to prevail," said the Most Rev. and Rt. Hon. Arthur Michael Ramsey in Johannesburg last week. But he saw only two alternatives: "Either violent revolution or a real change in which Christian people can play a part...
...What in God's name does the World Council of Churches think it is doing?" demanded the Johannesburg Star. The easiest part of the answer: it is giving $200,000 to "antiracist" organizations. The hard part: much of the money goes to black African liberation movements (some Communist supported) involved in various stages of violent subversion against white minority regimes in South Africa, Rhodesia, and the Portuguese colonies...