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...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...
...those who think they already know Real apartheid, Swanson reminds us, is not the almost comical institution of separate shop doorways for Black and white customers, but Black unemployment rates that virtually preclude a Black consumer class altogether. Not the lack of swimming pools in the Black ghetto of Soweto, but a "homelands" policy that ensures a mass migratory labor system ripe for exploitation. Real apartheid is the Black miner who works hundreds of miles from his family, the "Coloured" woman who is forcibly evicted from neighborhood by the so-called Department of Community Development, the white farmer...
America is awakening to its complicity in the crime which is apartheid. It would be a travesty if Harvard, America's oldest and most prestigious university, continued to sleep. Harvard must go beyond tokenism; it must reject passivity. The bloodshed at Sharpeville, Crossroads and Soweto is too high a price to pay for an education. Harvard and other universities must cut their ties to South Africa; they must put people ahead of profit, that which is right ahead of that which is convenient. I join the call for total divestiture...