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...Northern Rhodesia, our Johannesburg Correspondent Edward Hughes was heading home last week after bouncing some 5,000 miles through Mozambique, the Rhodesias and into the Belgian Congo in a battered Mercury. He stopped off in Lusaka (pop. 60,000) to listen to the black natives' saucepan radio and visit the unique Central African Broadcasting Station (see RADIO & TV). Then he rolled in a cloud of dust 530 miles along the corrugated dirt track, called the Great North Road, to Chinsali, a district commissioner's headquarters. There he switched to a bicycle and pedaled down a goat path through...
...eventual goal is to shuffle them into separate communities. Last month, as offi cials began enforcement of a 1950 law forbidding members of one race to move into quarters formerly occupied by another race, the first of what may be thousands of little neighborhood tragedies unfolded in a Johannesburg court...
Broken Window. The bewildered victim was Fred Nicholas, a swarthy little cabinetmaker who moved into the predominantly poor-white Bertrams district of Johannesburg shortly after the law was passed. Dark as he was (he explained that his father was of Portuguese origin), he had long passed as white and been so classified. His wife worked with other white women at a nearby factory, one of his sons went to the all-white Athlone high school. But one day Nicholas quarreled with John Fillis, a colored school master who lived around the corner...
...enclaves formed by the British protectorates of Bechuanaland, Basutoland and Swaziland, a fate that the natives of those protectorates strongly resist. To clear the black areas, thousands of white farmers would have to be moved from their farms and settled in white areas. If the black men still preferred Johannesburg to the bush, they could be forced into the national homes only with troops-an action that might well start off rebellion. A major problem is cost. The commission figured the price would be $300 million in the first ten years. Even this sum would not build many roads, railways...
...last to get in under the wire was six-year-old Ahmed Hassan, who had been left behind with grandparents in Bombay after his parents visited India three years ago. Traveling alone, little Ahmed managed to get a seat on one of the last planes leaving Nairobi for Johannesburg. Failing that, he would have been barred from his parents' home permanently. In the future not even a baby born to a South African Asian while traveling abroad will be allowed to enter its mother's country, and a South African Asian marrying abroad will be unable to bring...