Word: soweto
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What Bok and Kahn do not seem to realize is that there is a civil war in progress in South Africa. Continued investment in South Africa is an act of collaboration with the police brutality against children in Soweto and with starvation in the Homelands, without which there would be fewer frightened job-hungry people, and less chance to profit...
...national scale, violence abated slightly, but disturbances boiled up in the huge township of Soweto, outside Johannesburg, as police attempted to get students to return to their classrooms, on one occasion arresting more than 700. Near Cape Town, an angry crowd killed a plainclothesman after he fired at mourners following a funeral. Said General Johan Coetzee, the national police commissioner: "We do not have a state of war or revolution in this country." Still, unrest and violence remain daily features of South Africa's life...
...episodes of unrest by calling out legions of police. After responding to the worldwide condemnation of apartheid by hinting that genuine reform was on the way, it abruptly reversed itself in Botha's blunt reaffirmation of the present system. It fought a school boycott in the black township of Soweto two weeks ago by arresting more than 700 black youngsters, many of them no more than eight or ten years old. Last week, when Anglican Bishop Desmond Tutu's son Trevor, 29, expressed his indignation that a nine-year-old was being brought before a magistrate for participating...
Botha: Sentimental. Oh, I'm far from that. Damn worried is a better adjective for my state right now. A shiver went through me when you mentioned gold a minute ago. With all this angry activity reaching levels of Sharpville in 1960 and Soweto in 1976, that miners strike scheduled for August 25 seems to be a real threat. I mean if all 400,000 Black miners walked out, we'd lose more than half of our exports. And we've only got 275,000 police and military officers. How could they quell a worker uprising much larger than...
...cover and unveil the real reason we're interested in South Africa--a cheaper labor supply than we'll ever find in this grape-infested country. The best thing we can do is wait it out. Remember what that U.S. State Department official said: "Sharpville blew over, and Soweto blew over, and even though this is worse, there's nowhere it can really...