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...defiance was spreading. More than 1,200 black students challenged a ban on unauthorized assemblies to attend a memorial service for Biko at the black University of Fort Hare. They were arrested en masse without incident. Other protest meetings were scheduled for this week. In the black township of Soweto, where 24,000 high school pupils have been protesting discriminatory education by refusing to register for the coming term, one student said of Biko's death: "The sorrow is still with us. The anger will come later...
...often so placid that one can scarcely link them with that other, menacing force. Partly that is because black life is hidden and to a great extent silent. And yet slowly, slowly, the two black images are converging. To the whites' shocked disbelief, this happened during the bloody Soweto riots a year ago, when ordinary blacks suddenly turned into embodiments of rage...
...young high school students who have virtually taken over the black protest movement, and who were the leaders of the Soweto riots, sound very different (see story page 28). They have a new feeling of power, and they are disillusioned with their parents' efforts to bring about peaceful change and gradual concessions from the government. Most of the young are convinced that this approach has failed. There is much rhetoric about having nothing to live for, but something...
...African economy. No such strike has happened, because black workers are afraid of reprisals and because they cannot afford a strike, living as they do mostly just above poverty. The government may well keep the lid on for many more years or even decades. As one white editor says, "Soweto riots could just become an annual event." And yet the present situation-a continuing white sense of living under siege, a continuing black fever of resentment-cannot go on indefinitely without serious damage to the country. Fear would spread like slow poison (and, among other things, would deter investment from...
...move, they risk still more. Even if they manage to delay the inevitable for a generation or more, they will simply transfer the burden to their offspring. They may buy time for themselves, but they will doom their own children to the terrible battle with the children of Soweto...