Word: qoboza
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Dates: during 1976-1976
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When the police entered Qoboza's home--the police told reporters that the raid took place around 5 a.m., but Qoboza's wife Anne claimed that the time was closer to 3:30 a.m.--they searched his house for books banned from the country by the South African government...
Among the books examined were textbooks Qoboza used while attending courses during his stay at Harvard, his wife told a Reuters reporter...
James C. Thomson, curator of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism, said yesterday that Qoboza's detention will cause shock and outrage among his many friends and admirers in the American press community, in universities and in government circles...
Pogrund was unavailable yesterday for comment about Qoboza's arrest...
Nieman Curator Thomson, who has followed events in South Africa closely since his visit there last year, yesterday agreed with Boraine's evaluation of Qoboza's arrest. He called it "a serious escalation of the government's effort to intimidate the press...