Word: soweto
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Last week that shadow lengthened when the state closed down the country's two leading black newspapers, the Post (Transvaal), which has a circulation of 113,932, and the Sunday Post (circ. 124,000). Published by the white-owned Argus Co., the two newspapers are widely read in Soweto and other black townships near Johannesburg. The papers were said by Minister of Justice J.J. Coetzee to be "creating a revolutionary climate in South Africa...
...young people will always aspire to live and work in affluent urban centers of white South Africa. While he hopes to see a broad, peacefully negotiated pact that will bring blacks into the South African power structure, he is not optimistic. The violence that has scarred urban ghettos like Soweto, he believes, could spread to the homelands...
...rise, starting with raids on isolated police stations last year and culminating in this month's nighttime bombings of three refineries hi the country's strategic SASOL petroleum complex, causing $7.5 million in damage. The sense of bitterness has palpably intensified. Says a young black in Soweto: "No one is now pretending that our complaint is only against the teaching of Afrikaans in our schools, as it was in 1976. Our complaint is against the whole system...
Four years ago, the worst rioting was concentrated in Soweto, the huge black township outside Johannesburg, and in other black communities near the major cities. This time, Soweto seemed merely to be the fuse. The police were fearful that a new explosion might erupt on June 16, the anniversary of the 1976 riots-which has become a day for black mourning and political demonstrations-and the government banned all ceremonies. Inevitably, that action provoked blacks into acts of defiance. Buses were overturned, shops burned and cars stoned in the black townships. Seven thousand black workers went on strike in Port...
...crackdown in Cape Town and Soweto was harsh even by South African standards. But the ruling white "tribe," the Afrikaners, has long been preoccupied with the problems of surviving at the tip of a hostile continent, and today it is more nervous than ever. The neighboring state of Rhodesia has become black-ruled Zimbabwe, and the South African-administered territory of Namibia (South West Africa) is in transition toward some form of black majority rule. Gerrit Viljoen, 53, who is both head of the Broederbond, the powerful and secretive society of ranking Afrikanerdom, and Pretoria's administrator general...