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...represented the most brazen of several challenges last week to the Pretoria government. In the coastal city of Port Elizabeth, the Rev. Allan Hendrickse, one of Botha's two nonwhite Cabinet ministers, led a group of 30 | protesters to whites-only King's Beach for a chilly ten-minute "splashabout" in defiance of the law. Proclaimed Hendrickse: "This is God's beach!" In the Transvaal, Ster-Kinekor, South Africa's main distributor of foreign films, said it would stop supplying U.S. productions from Warner Bros. and Columbia Pictures unless whites-only admissions policies were dropped. Ster-Kinekor said...
Such continuing pressure on Pretoria was cold comfort to A.N.C. President Oliver Tambo as he presided over anniversary festivities in Lusaka. There were speeches, rallies and a birthday cake decorated with icing in black, green and gold, the A.N.C.'s colors. But the most remarkable event was Tambo's speech, in which he played down the bloody guerrilla tactics that the A.N.C. has advocated in recent years. Instead, he embarked on a more moderate approach, pledging that "civilians, both black and white," would not be harmed by A.N.C. fighters. He called on whites to "come together in a massive democratic...
Under the guidelines, Pretoria will be able to regulate the movements of students to prevent fraternization with militants, and to close the schools to nonstudent groups. With new authority to disallow politically objectionable classroom materials, the department is certain to shut down, by police action if necessary, "people's education" classes, which had apparently helped provoke Botha's decree...
...part of its crackdown on dissent in the schools, Pretoria last week empowered educational authorities to forbid students to wear shirts bearing unacceptable slogans on school grounds. The new regulations also covered uniforms and any other "article of clothing, case, flag, banner, pennant or poster," making it difficult for youngsters to use other sartorial means to express their views...
...George Venter, personnel manager at Durban Deep, which employs 11,500 at Roodeport. Other miners have not been as lucky as Olebogeng. Faced with more than 700,000 unemployed blacks at home, South Africa is slashing the influx of migrants and hiring more locals. Cutting back jobs is also Pretoria's way of exerting pressure on neighboring black states that have urged tougher economic sanctions against South Africa. Hundreds of miners from Mozambique, for example, will not return...