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...than U.S. firms about following the equal- employment practices spelled out in the Sullivan Principles, which most American firms support. Black leaders also fear that corporate contributions to housing and education programs may fade. The pullout also threatens the future of Pace College, a technical school in the black Soweto township that is funded by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce of South Africa. Boycotts by student militants forced the school to close last week, but Chamber President Kenneth Mason hopes to see it reopen in January. He warns, though, that a continued exodus of American companies could keep the college...
...A.N.C. Helms contended that the evidence shows A.N.C. leadership to be "fully penetrated and dominated by members of the S.A.C.P." As the group's exile continued into the 1970s, its influence among South African blacks declined somewhat. But that changed after a mass uprising in the black township of Soweto near Johannesburg in 1976. An estimated 4,000 young blacks fled the country to avoid detention, and most of them joined the A.N.C. The result was an infusion of new blood and fighting spirit. Well before Tambo's recent declaration of a people's war, A.N.C. guerrillas armed with Soviet...
...moved Coretta Scott King, widow of Martin Luther King Jr., after an emotional 70-minute meeting last week with Winnie Mandela, wife of Nelson Mandela, the imprisoned South African black activist. Winnie Mandela also admitted to being moved by the American's visit to her red brick home in Soweto, the sprawling black township on the outskirts of Johannesburg. Calling King "a symbol of what my people continue sacrificing for," she added, "We draw a great deal of inspiration from her strength and courage." For King, who was in South Africa for the installation of Desmond Tutu as Anglican Archbishop...
...Peace-prizewinning bishop of Johannesburg, last week bid an emotional goodbye to his diocese. But before taking over as Archbishop of Cape Town and primate of the Anglican Church for all of southern Africa, he conducted a final service at St. Paul's Church in the black township of Soweto. In his farewell sermon, Tutu declared, "Despite all that the powers of the world may do, we are going to be free...
Tutu becomes archbishop amid a flood of violence in Soweto...