Word: kimberley
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Karen Muir, 15, who has the Olympian misfortune to reside in Kimberley, South Africa. "I don't know much about politics," she said quietly, "but I am disappointed the Olympic committee allowed politics to enter sports." Then she showed the world what it will miss in October by breaking the listed world records in the 100-meter backstroke (1 min. 6.9 sec.) and 200-meter backstroke...
That great big hole in the ground near Kimberley gives Harry Oppenheimer, 58, chairman of the board of De Beers Consolidated Mines, Ltd., a leeway of personal expression unknown to most South Africans. Taking on the additional job of chancellor of multiracial Cape Town University, which numbers 266 blacks and Coloreds among its 6,392 students, the powerful diamond king coolly defended "the right of the university to run its own affairs"-despite the Vorster government's intensified campaign to force apartheid in all campus extracurricular activities. Said Oppenheimer: "What is the use of a civilization...
...industrious land. The General Motors plant at Port Elizabeth last month turned out its 750,000th car. Diamonds pour out of the big holes of De Beers near Kimberley. The busy gold mines of the Witwatersrand (Ridge of White Waters) and the Orange Free State turn out 73% of the world's supply. Not far away, in the middle of the great Vaal River coal fields, the government-owned SASOL plant turns coal into oil, the only major product in which South Africa is not self-sufficient; 18 companies are now exploring for oil in Zululand and the Karroo...
What drove Bishop Crowther into open battle was the lot of 1,000 Bantus from a native community called Holpan near Kimberley. Last month they were thrown out of their shanties and moved by government trucks to a barren waste in the Mamuthla Reserve, 25 miles to the north. Their offense was refusal to move into new government housing, where the rent of $5.60 a month was a third, the Bantus claimed, of what they could hope to earn. Visiting the compound, Bishop Crowther found most of the natives without food; some had not eaten in four days...
...Back in Kimberley, the bishop said that he felt "ashamed to be associated by accident of race with those responsible for this disregard for humanity." He thereupon organized a relief drive to which whites and half-castes contributed. Government officials declared that the Bantus had "forfeited the right to sympathy" by their intransigence, denied that they needed any food, lifted Crowther's permit to enter the area. Afrikaans papers began hinting that the bishop had undertaken the food drive to "embarrass" the government. As the holder of a U.S. passport, Crowther is subject to expulsion any time the government...