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...Johannesburg Stock Exchange, prices plunged to the lowest level in years, lower even than they were after the Sharpville native massacre. Wary foreign investors are pulling their money out of South Africa. Some English-speaking South African whites are emigrating to more hospitable political climes. "I cannot bear to be here while Africans are not free," explained one emigrant, among 150 embarking for Australia and New Zealand last week, "and I could not bear to be here when they...
Even Verwoerd's own National Party supporters are having their doubts. Cape Town's Nationalist newspaper. Die Burger, has recently veered away from Verwoerd's extremism, argues that coloreds should be represented in Parliament by coloreds. The party's paper in Johannesburg, Die Transvaler, warned fortnight ago that South Africa must change its views about racial questions "or prepare for catastrophe...
...South African family, after emigrating to Melbourne, was appalled to learn how expensive Australian white nannies and maids are, packed up and went back to Johannesburg...
...from Franklin Roosevelt, Martin Luther. John Milton and Thomas Jefferson as the "sort of statements that Communists make." All in all, their testimony piled up to 7,000,000 words, and the defendants logged 20,500 miles commuting on what they dubbed the "treason bus" from their homes in Johannesburg to the courthouse in the smaller city of Pretoria (where the trial was held to avoid demonstrations...
...verdict touched off a jubilant demonstration outside the court and a night of carousing in Johannesburg's black quarters. Many a white man was relieved to discover that, however fanatically the legislature had backed the apartheid doctrine of Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd and apartheid's underlying axiom that white men are inherently superior to black men, South Africa's judges retained a dedication to law and the belief that all men are equal under...