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Meanwhile, a regional court in Krugersdorp, west of Johannesburg, withdrew charges against Winnie Mandela, the wife of jailed Black Leader Nelson Mandela, for violating her banning order, a legal device that places restrictions on her movements. Mandela is currently challenging the validity of the banning order before South Africa's Supreme Court. If the ban is upheld, the charges in the regional court may be reactivated. Even less clear is the disposition of investigations opened into the activities of several journalists. If formal charges are brought, it will be the first time that journalists have been criminally charged since...
...somber granite monument to South Africa's Boer pioneers near Pretoria, at Krugersdorp where the Boers defied the British and re-established their republic, and at other sites across the nation, white Afrikaners gathered to mark the Day of the Covenant, their Thanksgiving. It was on Dec. 16, 1838, that 470 Afrikaner farmers fought off a raid by 15,000 Zulu warriors, killing 3,000 of the attackers without losing any of their own number. On the eve of the battle, the Afrikaners vowed that if God granted them victory they would ever after commemorate...
Last week, in a location at Krugersdorp, a mining town 20 miles from Johannesburg, rumor spread that the pass system would be extended to black women. When a native speaker excitedly called for a strike, smoldering racial resentment burst into flame. Before dawn, picket lines armed with clubs gathered at the location gate, threatening to maul any black who went to work...
Next day at a truce parley, Krugersdorp authorities explained that a new regulation for "voluntary registration of native women" did not mean that they had to carry passes. But in the parley, the aroused strikers did not sit down, in the traditional gesture of humility, when the whites addressed them. It caused one police official to complain: "I have never yet been to a meeting where the natives stand when you speak to them. It's most disrespectful...
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