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Dressed in the yellow T shirt of the United Democratic Front, a rapidly growing antiapartheid movement, Zindzi Mandela, 25, at the side of Johannesburg's Anglican Bishop Desmond Tutu, stood silently for a moment in Soweto's Jabulani Stadium. Then she began to read to the 9,000 people gathered before her a message prepared by her father, Nelson Mandela, in his prison cell. "I cannot and will not give any undertaking at a time when I and you, the people, are not free," Mandela, South Africa's best-known black activist, said in his statement. "Only free...
...violence continued through last week, largely concentrated in Soweto, the sprawling, densely populated township eight miles south of Johannesburg that was the center of racial unrest in 1976. A worried government put a ban into effect in 21 black urban areas on all indoor meetings called to criticize or even discuss government policy; outdoor meetings on such subjects have long been banned. Nonetheless, a large crowd gathered at Soweto's Regina Mundi Church for a prayer meeting to commemorate the death of Steven Biko, a black student leader who died in a South African prison seven years ago. Police...
...case of the 1976 rioting in Soweto and other black areas, in which about 500 people were killed, the immediate cause of last week's troubles was not explicitly racial. The government had recently announced an increase in rents and electricity rates in the black townships, enraging local residents, who complain that they are already hard pressed. But other, more specifically political motives may also have been involved. In Evaton township, for instance, 45 Indian shops and houses were burned to the ground, leading to speculation that blacks were furious about Indian participation in the recent parliamentary elections...
...unrest was not restricted to the black townships. A bomb ripped through the Johannesburg offices of the Department of Internal Affairs, injuring four people. It was the latest in a series of terrorist acts that have afflicted the city since June 15, the eve of the anniversary of the Soweto riots. Two days later another explosion hit an electrical substation 65 miles to the northwest of the city. At almost the same time, police discovered a powerful limpet mine, made of plastic explosives, that had been placed in the building that houses the Rand Supreme Court in downtown Johannesburg. Bomb...
...freedom. The blunt soldier does not mix easily in the brave new world of international alliances and monetary congresses. His former colleagues shunt Zwedu toward oblivion, using the lure of well-heeled debauchery. In A City of the Dead, a City of the Living, a black couple in Soweto take in a visitor who may have been involved in the terrorist bombing of a police station. He and the husband talk politics; the wife, increasingly unsettled for reasons of her own, reports the guest to the white authorities...