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...biggest land developers, currently worth $70 million; by Anna Lee Iva Schlesinger, 42, a New Yorker he married during a World War II stint as a U.S. Air Force bombardier; on uncontested grounds of adultery; after 22 years of marriage, including eight years of separation, and two children; in Pretoria, South Africa...
...seemed destined for great things. The son of a former judge-president of the Orange Free State, Fischer studied at the best schools, went on to Oxford as a Rhodes scholar, displayed a keen mind and a deep social conscience. Last week, Fischer stood in the dock of the Pretoria Palace of Justice, charged with 15 counts of Communist activity and conspiring to commit sabotage, fraud and forgery under South Africa's Suppression of Communism...
...were Nelson Mandela, 45, the "Black Pimpernel," who led South Africa's Special Branch cops a merry chase before his capture two years ago, and Walter Sisulu, 52, bearded official of the banned African National Congress. For more than nine months, a stream of 186 witnesses passed through Pretoria's red brick Palace of Justice, documenting in 2,550,000 words of testimony the government's charges that Umkonto had planned a systematic, 18-month campaign of sabotage aimed at undermining apartheid...
...will have to live for it in jail. After the sentencing, a crowd held in check by police dogs and armed cops gathered outside the Palace of Justice to watch the prisoners being led away. Two Black Marias purred through the square, then accelerated swiftly toward Pretoria Central Jail. From there, the black and "colored" prisoners would be ferried to Robben Island, a former leper colony off the Cape of Good Hope, while the white man would stay in a white prison. As the trucks pulled away, white, black and brown arms flashed briefly behind the bars in the clench...
...NUSAS does not include the four Afrikaans-speaking universities of Stellenbosch, Pretoria, Orange Free State, and Potchefstroom. These schools broke away in the 1930s to form their own organization--the Afrikaanse Studentbond...