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...Botha was responsible for enforcing the education, housing and labor laws that cover the country's blacks. He was a main target of black wrath during last year's violent riots and in the current strike of teachers and students that has paralyzed the school system in Soweto...
...result of injuries he received while in detention (TIME, Sept. 26), blacks and whites alike demanded the resignation of Justice Minister James Kruger for his callous handling of the case. At the same time, black unrest was fusing into a sustained campaign of resistance. In Johannesburg's Soweto ghetto, only 1,000 of 27,000 post-primary students and half their teachers showed up to register for the new school year; the dissidents are protesting the inferior system of "Bantu education...
...eulogies continued throughout the country, police shot and killed a 15-year-old black youth and wounded a teen-age girl at memorial services in Soweto. On Sunday Biko was given a hero's burial at his home village of King William's Town; black and white dignitaries were present to pay final tribute...
Vorster well knows that the pressure for change is growing, particularly in South Africa's business community. Since the Soweto riots of June 1976, the country's credit position has been badly hurt-losing some $115 million monthly on short-term capital accounts. As a result of deepening recession, black unemployment ranges up to 40%, and some 200,000 eligible black workers are out of jobs in Johannesburg alone. The government has discouraged business investment by scare talk of "total war" and an "economy of survival." One survey of white Johannesburg university students showed that 72% of them...
...July 16, 1977, Harvard University awarded an honorary degree to Albert Gordon '23, chairman of the board of directors of Kidder Peabody. It was exactly one year after South Africa's township exploded in rage against the racist apartheid system. Since the strikes in Soweto began, thousands of protesters have been killed, wounded or jailed without trial by South Africa's white minority government. But big U.S. companies like Kidder Peabody have refused to end their involvement in South Africa. Harvard's links to U.S. corporations tie the University to oppression in South Africa--a tie symbolized by Gordon...