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...also be black v. black. All over the land, and most particularly in the ramshackle black suburbs that now ring the great white cities, tribal jealousies fester. In native townships bearing such names as Zondi, Moroka and Shantytown-from which some 94,000 native workers stream each day into Johannesburg to work for the white man-Basutos, Bechuanas, Xhosas and Zulus live more or less segregated from one another under a government policy designed to preserve tribal instincts and to maintain the fiction that all native labor is transient and will some day return to the bush...
Just as angry was BOAC's Managing Director Basil Smallpeice, who let Bristol have it on the chin. When Bristol's short-range Britannia 102s finally went into service from London to Johannesburg last February, said Smallpeice, they were 19 months late, which held down BOAC's net profit in fiscal 1956 to $850,000. Yet the 102's tendency to ice at high altitudes has still not been licked. During 1956, Bristol tried to correct the icing, which caused dangerous flameouts. Finally, it devised a still not entirely satisfactory solution: a platinum glow plug "pilot...
...South Africa read from his pulpit a letter from his controlling bishop urging him to defy church apartheid, and proposing to establish a fund to support people prosecuted under the act. "If Verwoerd were so foolhardy now as to try to implement his church clause," said the conservative Johannesburg Star, "he would make an eternal martyr of the first person arrested, set the Anglican church in revolt, and probably spark off a series of events that would convulse the entire country." But that was not all. The Presbyterian Church declared church segrega tion "morally indefensible," the Baptists announced their conviction...
Weary and footsore, the Negro workers of Johannesburg climbed aboard the buses to ride to their jobs for the first time in twelve weeks. Their boycott had been a muted and melancholy protest against a one penny rise in fare (TIME. Feb. 25). Their inadequate diet made it hard for them to walk the 20 miles a day and also work a full shift; their low incomes left many without proper shoes or raincoats for the long trudge, yet 145,000 Negroes had honored the boycott in a demonstration of unity such as South Africa had never seen before...
...commuting from the segregated locations outside the city, would continue to ride for the old price by the simple process of paying fourpence for coupons exchangeable for a fivepenny bus ticket. The difference would be taken care of by a special fund raised by the employers and merchants of Johannesburg, who cared far less for the principles involved than for the man-hours and sales they were losing in the dispute...