Word: natality
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...general of the South African Council of Churches: "He is talking about applying an inhuman system more humanely. Things are changing, but there has been no fundamental change." Black leaders and even the country's white legal Establishment were shocked last week when a judge in the sleepy Natal town of Pietermaritzburg handed down a death sentence to James Mange, a militant, charged with plotting an attack on a police station. Mange was only the second person convicted of treason in South Africa since 1914; he was the first to be condemned in a case in which there...
...Willie and Joe cartoons. For at bottom, she views the housewife as society's thankless foot soldier, engaged in countless small battles to preserve the family's besieged traditions and values. Despite her lightness and the overcuteness of her titles (I Lost Everything in the Post-Natal Depression, The Grass Is Always Greener over the Septic Tank), she can flash genuine annoyance at the many cons directed at her harried legions...
...increase of 17. The moderately liberal Progressive Federal Party, supported by many English-speaking South Africans, doubled its previous support (to 16.7% of the vote), but elected only 17 members to the new Parliament. The other two English opposition groups, the conservative South African Party (three seats) and the Natal-based New Republic Party (ten seats) were virtually wiped out. So was a right-wing Afrikaner splinter group, the Herstigte Nasionale Party, which won no seats...
...might after a suitably triumphant electoral victory release most of the detainees and reduce the threat to the nation's press. (Last week, in a little-noticed token of liberalization, the government reversed a decision that would have excluded black and Indian students from the mostly white Natal medical school.) But blacks and their white supporters would still have the memory of a vivid lesson-that the government has the legal authority to crush dissent any time it pleases...
...include South Africa's 8,000 or so Chinese who are, curiously, treated almost as honorary whites under the apartheid laws. The first Asians were imported in 1860 to work as indentured laborers on the sugar estates then being started in the fertile coastal regions of Natal. Some who had come over as traders eventually started small shops or became market gardeners and hawkers. Many have branched out into the manufacturing industries, mostly in textiles and clothing, rice processing and sugar milling. Like the coloreds, South African Asians have their own schools, including the University of Natal (Westville...