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...years, has become an underground credo in South Africa ever since it was smuggled out of the Robben Island prison. Last week Mandela's grim prophecy seemed to be coming true even sooner and more viciously than expected. In both black and "colored" (mixed-race) townships-first in Soweto and then in Elsies River near Cape Town-crowds of rioting youths clashed with police on three successive nights. Barrages of stone throwing were answered with baton charges, volleys of tear gas and gunfire. At least 40 people were shot dead by police, and hundreds more were injured. The spasm...
...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...
...bloody clash was the latest and most violent to arise from six weeks of school boycotts and demonstrations protesting the blatant racial discrimination of South Africa's educational system. The volatile conflict was hauntingly reminiscent of the black school protests that had exploded in Soweto four years ago-except that this time the movement was led by coloreds. Responding to the boycott, the authorities last week arrested more than 248 people-including black Anglican Bishop Desmond Tutu and 52 other religious leaders who had joined him in a peaceful protest march in Johannesburg...