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...morning last week Sam Morotola, the president of the local antiapartheid students' congress, was awakened by gunshots outside his small home in Atteridgeville, a black township near Pretoria. Seconds later, a marauder hurled a hand grenade at his house, blowing a hole in one wall. Morotola, who had been sleeping in a room in another part of the house, escaped harm, but his 18-year-old cousin was injured in the blast...
...killed him because he was "responsible for some of the youths' deaths in the township . . . for some of us missing our (school) examinations." At the beginning of this month, vigilantes in Winterveld bombed the houses of four activists who had organized a protest meeting in that tiny town near Pretoria in the independent homeland of Bophuthatswana. In the Pretoria area alone, 56 antiapartheid activists have been the targets of attacks during the past ten months. Says Nicholas Haysom, a lecturer at the University of the Witwatersrand and author of a new book on the growing phenomenon: "Vigilante activity has been...
FINALLY, DIVESTMENT is more than just an issue of morality and community at Harvard; it is still of vital importance for bringing pressure to bear on the racist regime in Pretoria. While forces within South Africa are still the primary agents of change, the government of President P.W. Botha has made significant reforms in response to international pressure, most recently announcing the demise of the hated pass laws. The role of international pressure has been crucial both in instigating such reforms and in preventing a more violent backlash against progressive forces within South Africa...
...fact, there is little reliable information of this sort. The Pretoria government has made it a capital offense for any South African to publically support divestment, corporate disinvestment or any economic sanctions against the country. So foreigners must rely on hints from Blacks leaders that the people they claim they represent support the withdrawl of foreign corporations...
Disinvestment has inherent risks for South Africa, and it might do nothing but make Pretoria even more economically independent, resistant to change, and angry about Western interference. Indeed, freedom for Blacks is only one of the many possible outcomes of U.S. disinvestment. Does the average Black understand these risks...