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Until last spring, South Africa's Nationalist government considered Anglican Bishop of Johannesburg Richard Ambrose Reeves just another irritating and ineffective critic. But when the police guns mowed down hundreds of unarmed blacks at Sharpeville in March, Bishop Reeves rushed to the hospital to interview the wounded and inspect the dead, publicly announced he had evidence that many had been shot in the back, even accused the cops of using dumdum bullets. The government decided that Bishop Reeves had 'become a threat to its security. Tipped off that his arrest was imminent, the bishop slipped away to England...
...born in Norwich, was appointed to the Johannesburg...
...thousands of placards simply inscribed "no." But Verwoerd's main worry is the threat of widespread defections among his own 1.7 million Afrikaners, many of whom showed signs of losing enthusiasm for their long-proclaimed desire to break South Africa's ties with the British crown. In Johannesburg the Rand Daily Mail's poll of 100 people named Van der Merwe (the Afrikaner equivalent of Jones or Smith) found only 33 in favor of a republic, 20 opposed and the rest undecided...
Economic troubles have something to do with Afrikaner hesitation. The Sharpeville massacre of 72 South African blacks last March and the international revulsion that followed sent shares on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange plummeting $1.2 billion as foreign investors withdrew their money. Afrikaner farmers and businessmen are feeling the pinch of the $23 million in exports that South Africa is expected to lose this year as a result of the boycott of South African goods by Ghana. Malaya, the West Indies and others. And all South African businessmen are haunted by the fear that if Verwoerd proclaims a republic, other Commonwealth...
...flaming Congo, Johannesburg Correspondent Lee Griggs questioned Premier Patrice Lumumba just before he left...