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...last week Bok said a personal plea to the University Treasurer from a Black South African leader played a role in the Corporation's decision. According to Bok, a man identified only as Dr. Motlana, a member of the Soweto Committee of 10, urged George Putnam '49 to approve a controversial 1979 Citibank loan...
Putnam told Motlana that he "would be glad to speak up on behalf" of the $250-million loan, part of which was earmarked for construction of a private hospital in Soweto...
...that market forces have diverted distribution of a drug that will cure leprosy to use instead in treating tennis elbow. The jokes range from the incisive to the tasteless, and even the racist and antiSemitic. An Op-Ed column headlined COLORED PEOPLE MUST SUFFER TO PROSPER is signed "Thomas Soweto," deftly mocking the free-market views of Thomas Sowell, a conservative black economist who contends that racism is not the major cause of economic deprivation for blacks. Help-wanted ads have executives soliciting young male proteges and "preteen women...
...banned citizen, Thloloe will not be allowed to travel to Cambridge to accept the non-monetary award from the independent journalist foundation. He is currently living in Soweto and studying by correspondence at the University of South Africa in Pretoria...
...detention in addition to banning, which was ten years old. The two repressive measures have become part of the grim pattern of national life. Over the years, banning and detention have been used to silence more than 1,500 critics of the regime, including 350 people seized during the Soweto riots in 1976 and scores of journalists, clergymen and antiapartheid leaders following the death in custody of Stephen Biko...