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South Africa's leading black journalist, Percy Qoboza, 40, recently spent five months in prison for his political convictions; nonetheless, he remains a man of moderation who prefers reconciliation to violence. Although there is growing resentment among radicalized blacks of foreign support for the Pretoria regime. Qoboza argues that the U.S. can still exert helpful pressure on South Africa- primarily through U.S. corporations that do business there - in such a way that his country would not become further isolated and its white population more deeply antagonized. Qoboza, whose crusading black-oriented daily The World was suppressed at the time...
...Percy Qoboza, editor of South Africa's largest black newspaper and a former Nieman fellow, is still in jail in South Africa, Thomson said...
Thomson said Qoboza, who was detained in the same government crackdown in which Woods was banned, is apparently in good physical condition...
There are liberals who fear that the worst is yet to come, and that South Africa may turn into a dictatorship. Many see, in the closing of Qoboza's World, an implicit threat that the adamantly antigovernment English-language press might be the next target. Certainly, if the government now wants to push through newspaper laws that would place publications directly under government scrutiny, there is nothing to stop...
...daily editorials and an occasional op-ed column known as "Percy's Pitch," The World Editor Qoboza has relentlessly attacked racism, the apartheid laws, economic and educational discrimination, abuses of power by the police, the government and its ministers -anything and everything South African that adversely affects the lives of his black readers. The messages that Qoboza has driven home most persistently: blacks must inevitably gain a share in power, and they must find common ground with whites before it is too late. There is a bite to Qoboza's warnings, and sometimes sarcasm. But the voice that...