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Verwoerd's regime has spent millions of dollars moving Africans out of Johannesburg's squalid shantytown "locations" and into new government housing in townships farther from the city. It has also built hundreds of schools, can point to the fact that the African literacy rate has nearly doubled in the past decade. But, points out a Johannesburg professor, "relative to its resources, South Africa does less for the African than any other country...
Last week, with the furies of both sides boiling high, Ironsi decided to venture out of his Lagos sanctuary to preach national togetherness at a meeting of Northern political bosses in the nearby regional capital of Ibadan. Hardly had he arrived in the sprawling shantytown city than he was taken prisoner by rebellious troops, while other in surrectionists grabbed control of the Lagos airport and the important marketing town of Abeokuta. The capital itself was quiet, although cable and phone connections were cut and strict censorship imposed. Government radio assured the nation that "the situation is under control." There...
Surely the duration will extend beyond Lyndon Johnson's presidency and many , more to come. Through legal action, the road from shantytown to voting booth has been cleared. Now Los Angeles has shown that the road from deprivation to decent schools, jobs and homes, may be even more tortuous and lonely. There are no short cuts, and in the aftermath of violence the people of Watts may begin to grasp that fact. Many did. "I don't want anyone to give me anything," said a Negro laborer. "All I want...
...misery of his own backward land, where full-time jobs are scarce and wage scales a fraction of those in France. Since 1959, nearly 150,000 peasants have emigrated to France-most of them illegally. The majority live in squalor in such growing slum areas as the Melun shantytown on the outskirts of Paris. Faithfully, they send large parts of their paychecks home: last year their remittances added nearly $40 million to Dictator Antonio Salazar's economy...
...migrants simply disappear into Rio's hillside favelas, Caracas' ranchos, Santiago's callampas, the slums that choke every large Latin American city. In a year's time, squatters at the edge of Colombia's port city of Barranquilla turned a bean field into a shantytown of crude huts housing 2,500 people. Lima's slums are growing ten times faster than the city itself; 450,000 live in slums today, compared with 120,000 in 1957. For nearly all, the chances of ever rising out of the slums are slim. The man finds...