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...racism. Although in the election they lost ten of their eleven seats to U.P. candidates pledged to rub them out, the Progressives pulled in 69,000 votes (20,000 more than anticipated) from defecting moderates fed up with the lack of racial alternatives between the two major parties. In Johannesburg and Durban, the Progressives polled heavily, winning one seat and losing four others by fewer than 1,000 votes. Set upon by both the Nationalists and the Progressives, the U.P. now has only a handful of safe seats in the Assembly, may well lose its position as the major opposition...
...Johannesburg's Witwatersrand University, a young South African lecturer in chemistry publicly turned his back on his country. Said David Rosseinsky, 28: "Call it running away if you like, but living in this country with all its political and racial frustrations so affects me that I yearn for release...
...announcement came only two weeks after South Africa had inserted a lavish, 24-page booklet into the Sunday New York Times, advertising its "favorable investment climate" and pointing out the bargains available, since "stocks have reached new highs on every exchange in the free world with one exception, the Johannesburg Stock Exchange...
...police pickup vans. But as the police had hoped, the leaders were forced into such deep concealment that they lost touch with their black following. Thus, when the strike deadline arrived, confused native office boys, waiters and messengers went to their jobs on schedule almost everywhere. One-third of Johannesburg's black work force stayed at home the first day, halting grocers' deliveries and causing white restaurant managers to suffer the indignity of washing their own dishes; but by next morning virtually all the absentees had drifted back to work...
...British Commonwealth, gold-mine shares have dropped 30%; gold and foreign exchange reserves have fallen by half since Sharpeville, forcing the government to slash import licenses by two-thirds. Foreign investment is at a standstill. "Not a cent, penny, franc or pfennig is coming in from abroad," says one Johannesburg businessman. "We're in difficult straits...