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...TRAITOR'S HEART by Rian Malan; Atlantic Monthly; 349 pages...
...Traitor's Heart, Rian Malan, a young white South African journalist, has one major subject: Rian Malan. His intense and angry memoir offers a series of South African impressions: the author as exiled hippie in America; the author as pariah in his native land; blacks under fire, with a prominent & figure of the author...
...years the South African government has been at war with the 900 antidraft activists of the End Conscription Campaign. Defense Minister Magnus Malan calls them "anti-South African." The police have repeatedly raided the campaign's 40 offices and campus branches, and jailed 96 of the group's members without charge. Last week Pretoria fired its latest, and most devastating, salvo. Minister of Law and Order Adriaan Vlok banned the group from "continuing any activities or acts...
...said was an A.N.C. guerrilla transit facility, situated twelve miles inside Botswana. South African forces staged a postmidnight raid on the house, shot to death four people asleep inside, including at least two Botswanan women, and escaped by helicopter after fire bombing the target. Said Defense Minister General Magnus Malan: "It is the policy of the South African government to combat terror wherever it may occur...
...these so-called gray areas is taking place in violation of the Group Areas Act, which completed the process of assigning every square foot of South Africa to residential use by one of the four racial groups and, when passed in 1950, was hailed by Prime Minister Daniel F. Malan as the "essence of apartheid." Though the present government of State President P.W. Botha insists that the law remain on the books, authorities do virtually nothing to enforce...