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...Alan Paton, South African author, at Harvard University rapping clergymen for their silence on the subject of apartheid: "It's about time that missionary activity be directed to the white people...
...Their leaders, for the most part today, are in prison, in detention or in hiding. They have few spokesmen. Despite the current wave of arrests and bannings, tangible evidence of the power of the state, riots and strikes will probably go on. South Africa's best-known writer, Alan Paton (Cry, the Beloved Country), has described the black-white confrontation as "a nightmare of noncompromising power creating a noncompromising opposition." In Soweto, a former engineering student says defiantly, "They create the fury, then they suppress it. They feel they have controlled the situation by detaining our leaders, but we feel...
...ironic that this government should be so sensitive to any suggestion that its regime is in any way related to that of the Nazis," Paton said...
...rule of law has been severely eroded since 1961 in South Africa and I don't see much hope for an evolutionary solutions," South African novelist and political activist Alan Paton said last night in his third and final William Belden Noble Lecture...
...Paton spoke on the continual erosion of civil liberties and human rights in South Africa, specifically criticizing the nation's repressive police tactics...