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...latest hit record blaring from every loudspeaker in the Negro music shops of Johannesburg is Azikwela! (We will not ride!). There is a meaning to the music. For the past six weeks Johannesburg's Negroes have chosen to walk to work (often as far as ten miles) rather than ride the buses which carried them to their jobs each day. The issue is not, as in Montgomery, Ala., one of mixed seating: white riders are not even allowed on these work buses. Originally azikwela was a simple protest against a one-penny rise in the bus fare...
...humdrum boyhood in the forest-encircled town of Kalmar, Sweden. After cheating his way through school, and with an engineer's diploma in his pocket, Ivar began ricocheting around the globe. He did wiring jobs on Manhattan's Plaza and St. Regis Hotels, operated a restaurant -in Johannesburg. Back in Stockholm in 1908, he co-founded the building firm of Kreuger & Toll. Then he took over his family's three match factories, was shortly gobbling up competitors and building his giant Swedish match combine...
SOUTH AFRICA Caged Men It was no wonder that the white citizens of Johannesburg were jittery. A man might ignore the 93° heat and the potentially explosive bus boycott that Johannesburg Negroes had organized in protest against a fare rise. No one, however, could ignore the tension which emanated from the city drill hall, where 156 South Africans last week faced a court on charges of high treason-a trial which the London Economist likened to Hitler's notorious Reichstag fire trial...
Prometheus roamed the savannas during the early Ice Age a million or so years ago, and anthropologists believe he may have been one of the first "protomen." His most ardent biographer is Anatomist Raymond Arthur Dart of Johannesburg, who has constructed a vivid picture of his ways from the man-ape fragments thus far dug up. In a report released by the Smithsonian Institution, Dr. Dart adds a few more imaginative strokes to his Promethean portrait...
...bedside of her sick child. A British-born Methodist minister was arrested in his rectory at 4 a.m. Professor Zachariah Matthews, onetime Henry W. Luce Professor of World Christianity at Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary, was another of those rounded up, packed into police vans and jailed in Johannesburg in the dark of the night...