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South African-born, Soweto-reared Photographer Peter Magubane returned to work last week after spending seven days in a hospital recovering from buckshot wounds received when he was caught in police crossfire at a funeral near Johannesburg. Says Magubane: "I'm fine now, but I'm a bit worried about the metal detectors at the airport when I leave. I'm still carrying 17 lead pellets in my feet and backside...
...Reporter Peter Hawthorne, who has covered South Africa for TIME since 1965, was first exposed to the country's turbulence in 1960, when he walked the silent streets of Sharpeville hours after 69 blacks were killed by police gunfire. He covered the 1976 riots in Soweto, and in the past several weeks has again dodged township mobs, and a few rocks. But the danger does not deter Hawthorne. "The story is its own magnet," he says. "There are real people living here, black and white, and they have no choice but to coexist in peace or die together...
Johannesburg Bureau Chief Bruce Nelan took up his post only two months ago. As part of his orientation he traveled to Cape Town to meet with the leaders of the new tricameral Parliament. In addition, he, Hawthorne and Photographer Peter Jordan drove through the mountains and valleys of KwaZulu, or Zululand, in the eastern part of the country, to interview its chief minister, Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi. Nelan also spoke with government officials in Johannesburg and Pretoria, the administrative capital...
...felt most keenly by the young. They hold the police in contempt; in Soweto they jokingly refer to patrolling police vehicles as "Zola Budd" and "Mary Decker," who competed at the Los Angeles Olympics, depending on which vehicle arrives first at the scene of a disturbance. Says Photographer Peter Magubane, who was raised in Soweto and has covered its life since the early 1960s: "Things are getting tougher, more clinical. If there is a protest march or a funeral procession, you will find buckets of water placed at every house along the way. That's in case there is tear...
When a draft agreement containing these radical reforms was presented to the union's leaders in early July, they found it too much to swallow in one gulp. Peter Kelly, head of U.A.W. Local 160, in Warren, Mich., said that the plan "could lead to the demise of the U. A. W union movement as we know it." He complained that the proposal would destroy the seniority system, in which the best jobs go to workers with the longest service. Kelly pointed out that while job security would be guaranteed for 80% of Saturn's workers, the remaining 20% could...