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...proposal does not resolve whether to formally acknowledge organizations with national affiliations, such as fraternities, as well as specifically whether to acknowledge racial and religious fraternities. Under the current system, neither type of group is permitted to register...
Thus last week the most densely populated areas of stricken and divided South Africa fell under an iron-like state of emergency. The crackdown by the Botha government came after ten months of black protest against apartheid, the country's rigidly enforced structure of racial separation, and followed earlier, ineffective repressions by the government. Almost 500 people, practically all of them black, died during that extended and bloody period of confrontation, some at the hands of fellow blacks, the majority as the result of police action to put down the unrest. Botha's proclamation of the emergency was intended...
...national leadership, becoming Prime Minister in 1978 and State President under a new constitution in 1984, Botha was regarded by South African standards as something of a reformer. He had inherited the apartheid system as defined by the late Hendrik Verwoerd, an elaborate concept that provided not only for racial segregation but for the creation of a group of separate tribal "homelands," in which all of the country's blacks would eventually have theoretical citizenship, even though most would continue to live where they always had, in the black townships of white-ruled South Africa. By this curious...
...always in South Africa, the contrasts are so great that generalizations are difficult. Over the past generation, the thinking of many whites has changed, and along with it their society. Today there is a small but noticeable measure of racial integration in sports, churches, shops and offices, as well as bars, restaurants, hotels and theaters. Rapid industrialization during the past two decades has brought blacks four or five times the pay they received a few years ago, though they still average only about 19% of what whites earn. That is not true, however, of black employees of dozens of major...
...concerned about unrest between black tribal groups, erosion of their own political position, and the plans of Prime Minister Robert Mugabe to turn the country into a one-party state. The creation of South African parliamentary chambers for colored and Indian representation, not to mention the repeal of the racial sex laws, may not amount to much in terms of political power for nonwhites, but the Botha reforms have helped convince the right wing that the President is not sufficiently aware of die svart gevaar (the black peril). Some political observers believe that in the next general election...