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...BRUUN-MEYER Johannesburg...
Mandela became a disguise artist: dressed as a garage worker, he once wheeled a spare tire down the main street of Johannesburg under the nose of the cops. On another occasion, when he wanted to retrieve some documents from his Johannesburg office, Mandela dressed himself as a Zulu janitor in the traditional blue jumper and shorts, stuck huge earrings through his ear lobes, grabbed a broom and walked through the police cordon outside his office. Once inside, he tucked the papers under his shirt and calmly walked...
Last week, on the Durban-Johannesburg highway, Nelson Mandela's car was stopped by a police roadblock. Acting on an informer's tip, the cops had finally got their...
...exchange, stocks have been depressed for months because of the government's stringent credit restrictions aimed at easing the balance-of-payments deficit. And South Africa has so isolated its economy from the rest of the world that there has been hardly a ripple of reaction on the Johannesburg exchange to Wall Street's recent ups and downs. But gold stocks have begun to rise again because speculators remain unconvinced by President Kennedy's dramatic denial that the U.S. would devalue its dollar by raising the price of bullion...
...South African newspaper offices, desk men have begun keeping the list next to their style books and headline charts. Reporting the trial of Union Leader Leon Levy, charged with attending a meeting, the Johannesburg Star said, "Magistrate H. J. Bosnian asked, 'How do you plead?' Levy: (He did plead but his words cannot be published...