Word: robben
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...leader of the bantustan Kwazulu. Nominally he has a lot of supporters, but I think his position is eroding every day. He's in the position [Bishop Abel] Muzerewa was in Rhodesia a year ago. Open that society up, and let them all talk freely--let Mandela come off Robben Island prison tomorrow and say that Buthelezi is a no-no, which he would--and Buthelezi's support would melt like the snow in summer...
...them when you say, 'I can't give you any names.' They send fact-finding missions to South Africa, and they come back and say, 'The blacks we spoke to don't want withdrawal.' Naturally, the blacks they speak to don't want withdrawal, unless they swim to Robben Island and get through the prison bars and interview the real leaders...
...African leaders. Among them: Andreas Shipanga, a former SWAPO Information Officer released from a Tanzanian prison, who formed the SWAPO Democrats in opposition to Nujoma last month, and Herman Toivo Ya Toivo, one of SWAPO's founders, who has been in the South African maximum security prison on Robben Island for the past ten years. Toivo, popular with the Ovambo tribesmen who constitute the bulk of SWAPO membership; is no friend of Nujoma's. "His big problem is that he is no longer a major force within the country," says Shipanga. "He has been too long...
...businessmen. The prospect at the university level is that a comfortably tenured faculty, whose work is not subject to any kind of review, will stay on forever, regardless of competence. This change could not come at a worse time, since the number of teaching jobs is shrinking. Says Robben W. Fleming, president of the University of Michigan: "We're creating a missing generation that doesn't have a chance in the academic world. The department heads say they are not going to have many openings for the next ten years. That's disastrous. They need stimulating young people to challenge...
...astonishing that the South African government has allowed the two plays to tour, not only in South Africa itself, but also throughout the world, when it has at its disposal the convenient Robben Island of a traditionally unscrupled police force. Even if South Africa has been in recent years forced by economic and guerrilla pressure to edge toward a far-off detente with Black Africa, its lenience here suggests that the government, at least, does not consider the political message overbearing. The two plays may suffer from a sense of unsubtle didacticism, but an audience that expects an angry expression...