Word: persons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...isolated and ostracized will mean loneliness. Loneliness is an enemy of a person and of a nation. It makes you do funny things, stupid things-this we will have to guard against. But we can hibernate-and fairly long too. All of us, black and white, will suffer. But we will not be the only ones...
...isolation is a CUrSe-and banning is the most insidious punishment in South Africa. Reserved for an elite 150 or so of the government's political enemies, it amounts to an emotionally destructive public Coventry. For five years, Woods may not meet with more than one other person at a time except for members of his family; he may not write for publication or be quoted-he has become, as a result, a public nonperson. Although forbidden by South African law to quote Woods on any subject or even echo his thoughts, TIME Johannesburg Bureau Chief William McWhirter...
...fateful end to a special friendship between a white and a black. Donald Woods, a fifth-generation English-speaking South African and editor of the feisty East London Daily Dispatch (circ. 30,000), is now a "banned person, as was his friend Steve Biko, who died in jail two months ago. It was in fact, Woods' crusade over the mystery surrounding Bik'o's death that probably led to his banning in the government's massive wave of detentions and crackdowns...
...therefore forbidden to play a chess match in East London's sister city, Port Elizabeth If he and his wife go to a restaurant, a friend may stop to say hello but may not sit down: that would constitute a meeting with more than one person since his wife is considered another person when friends are present...
...decisions. Woods is already treated as though he suffers some undiagnosed illness. Friends become nervous about how to approach him or what to say. People ask how he is, with the concern they would show for a patient who is in the hospital. "Donald" is discussed in the third person, sometimes even in the past tense. A friend's affectionate newspaper piece about him in the Rand Daily Mail read more like an obituary than a feature. a man There is appear something comfortable and malevolent in useless, a unable system to that affect his makes own fate...