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...REPORT FROM JOHANNESBURG...
This spring week in Johannesburg the flowering plums were massed with pink after a hard winter. But I found that in South Africa's Golden City you can't have even a haircut without bumping into crime...
Under the Pillows. Johannesburg has always been a rowdy place. It began as a mining camp. But as the city has grown, throwing up tall buildings and sending a tide of suburban homes rolling across the surrounding veld, crime has grown with it. Today, the city's 350,000 whites fear its 500,000 natives; and this fear is reciprocated. Johannesburg is probably the tensest city in the world to live in. Altitude (5,750 feet) and glare (Johannesburg gets more sunshine than the Riviera) increase the tension. The dry air crackles with fear...
...silver & gold Johannesburg hotel room one day last week, ex-Royal Air Force Ace Adolph Gysbert ("Sailor") Malan, 40, presided over the first National Congress of his newly formed War Veterans Action Movement. On the wall behind him hung a tiny stucco dancing girl; in front sat 85 sturdy ex-servicemen, ranging from white-mustached former brasshats to fresh-faced youths...
Last week the veterans quickly buckled down to business. Said Congress Chairman Louis Kaneberman, a Johannesburg lawyer: "Those not with us are against us-there can be no compromise. To the timid we have given courage and inspiration where it was most lacking...