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Brandeis University students yesterday erected a shantytown and said they would live in the plywood shacks until the Waltham school agrees to divest of its South Africa linked investments...
Later in the week, at least 42 people were killed outside Durban in yet another resurgence of fighting between Zulu and Pondo tribesmen. Thousands more were left homeless as fire spread through the shantytown where the Pondos live. Since Christmas, more than 100 people have died in clashes between the groups over jobs and housing. Police officials arrested 480 people after the latest outbreak and seized truckloads of weapons, including spears and homemade guns...
Last summer, University officials tore down "Shantytown", a mock structure erected as a "symbolic expression of the divestment movement." Johnston said that activists are currently taking Cornell to court, claiming that the university's action is a violation of their free-speech rights...
...riot last month at Crossroads, a wretched black squatters' camp on the sand dunes outside Cape Town, resulted in the deaths of 18 blacks and injuries to 250 others. It also brought calls from many in South Africa's shocked tricameral Parliament for a plan to allow the shantytown's 60,000 inhabitants to stay on permanently. Last week Gerrit Viljoen, South Africa's Minister of Cooperation and Development, conceded. He was prepared, he said, to allow "upgrading and development" of the area to provide adequate housing for those qualifying, based on the length of their residence and permanent employment...
...industrial mishaps around the world, some with immediate fatal results, others with lingering, long-term consequences. Last week in Taiwan, leaking methane gas in a coal shaft triggered an explosion that killed 33 miners. Two weeks earlier, a liquefied-natural-gas explosion claimed 452 lives near a Mexico City shantytown. As the list of such man-made tragedies grows, concern is rising everywhere that industrial safety standards are often higher in the U.S. than in developing countries, and that some U.S. firms may have opened plants abroad to take advantage of the disparity. Indeed, the accident in India touched...