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Prospects are not bright for a rational, peaceful solution to the problem of South Africa. Black Africa is determined that majority rule must come to the country. Sooner or later, South Africa will face guerrilla pressure, although its armed forces could easily cope with the early stages of subversion. But...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: The Defiant White Tribe | 11/21/1977 | See Source »

Proud Afrikaner though he is, Van Tonder is scornful of South African policies. "It's a police state," he says. "It's putting my culture into a straitjacket." Van Tonder, who has now joined the right-wing Herstigle Nasionale Partie and is standing as one of their candidates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: White Roots: Seeds of Grievance | 11/21/1977 | See Source »

Makavejev's films are a combination of art and politics, tragedy and comedy, theory and practice, rational and irrational, fiction and documentary. It is as if he is not satisfied with showing his subject from any one point of view. He's always shifting tenses, much like American novelist John...

Author: By Talli S. Nauman, | Title: Dusan Makavejev: A Film-maker Teaches Film | 11/14/1977 | See Source »

Decisions that would affect the majority were widely discussed by all living within the framework of the tribe. This form of traditional authority developed to what we all know in Africa as Chieftaincy. Thus it is possible to see that although such an institution was still primitive, a close study...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Africa: A Continent of Poverty | 11/8/1977 | See Source »

Once more, how could any rational mind accept the similarity between Begin and the PLO covenant? The latter's constitution expressly states the destruction of the State of Israel as its first and foremost aim. In his most nationalistic speeches Begin has never expressed the determination to exterminate the Palestinian...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Shahak and His Claims | 11/1/1977 | See Source »

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