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...Search. In Johannesburg, South Africa, Bachelor John Henry King, 105, met and proposed to Widow Fannie Excell, 87, commented: "At last I have found the right woman...
South Africa's white supremacy government prepared yesterday to end all bus service to several Johannesburg Negro townships by tonight. More than 40,000 nonwhites appeared determined to defy demands that they end their 52-days-old mass boycott of the city's transportation system, while armed police stood by amid rumors of big demonstrations in Negro areas...
Apartheid's ultimate goal is the complete separation of the African and European ways of life, from the ground up. In education this implies strict segregation. The only remaining nonsegregated universities are at Capetown and Witwatersrand (Johannesburg). At these "open" universities, blacks and whites mix freely and accrue mutual benefits in understanding each other's needs and problems. There have been no racial tensions in Capetown or Witwatersrand, nor have either whites or blacks expressed desires for segregation...
Conducted, like its Montgomery counterpart, in a scrupulous spirit of nonviolence, the boycott was taken up on other Johannesburg bus lines, spread to Pretoria and to Port Elizabeth. If Bloemfontein joins in as expected, the number of won't-riders will soon be more than...
...buses rolled passengerless along streets clogged with trudging Negroes, sympathetic white motorists of Johannesburg began more and more to stop and offer lifts. Strydom's police set up roadblocks to harass the drivers, checking and rechecking licenses and registrations, whipping out tape measures to see if the law providing a 15-in. space for each passenger was being observed, citing every letter of the law to delay the car-lift. In the cities themselves, police searched Negro hotels and the servant quarters of white homes to smoke out workers staying overnight without police passes. Railroads refused...