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...year ago, on June 16, the fury and frustration of South Africa's blacks exploded in rioting at Soweto, the huge (estimated population: 1.2 million) amalgam of segregated townships on the outskirts of Johannesburg. The violence -and counterviolence by South African security forces-spread to other black ghettos. By the time the "disturbances" subsided in December, 618 had died, nearly half the number of lives lost in Ulster's eight years of bloody civil strife...
...Soweto (an acronym for southwest townships) remembered its grim anniversary last week in a solemn moratorium that its residents, with calculated irony, called "Black Christmas." There was a two-day general strike by African workers and packed church services fiercely punctuated with raised black-power salutes. Hymns of liberation like Senzenina (What Have We Done?) were sung about Azania-the name that black nationalists use for South Africa. Black sports and entertainment events were canceled. Even Soweto's 400 illegal drinking shebeens were closed. White and African police gathered in force outside the wire fences that border the township...
...white immigration gain (mostly from Western Europe and from elsewhere in Africa) dropped sharply last year, from 27,000 in the first six months to 17,000 in the six months following the Soweto riots. Citing "unfavorable political developments in southern Africa," the government of Prime Minister John Vorster last month an nounced a tough new budget, with $640 million in new taxes (out of $8.9 bil lion) and record-breaking defense costs. A White Paper on defense, issued during the current session of parliament, calls for an expansion of the armed forces, an extension of the draft for white...
...past year has been deeply troubling for South Africa. The rioting that began last June in Johannesburg's black ghetto of Soweto (pop. 1.2 million) and quickly spread to other black townships around the country has taken 500 lives so far-and sputters on. Guerrilla raids continue in the northern portion of Namibia, which South Africa has administered (as South West Africa) since 1920. Under international pressure, South Africa is now trying to set Namibia free, but only under a moderate government that would cause the South Africans no trouble. The hitch is that the only Namibian political group...
...conversion. (Shades of Chuck Colson!) Then golf star Gary Player's "recent brush with death" when he was almost struck by lightning on a South African golf course. (Presumably he avoided other unimportant violence in the area, which the space-conscious Enquirer issue fails to mention: like terrorist violence, Soweto riots, and other events irrelevant to our lives.) There are other goodies too: deaths by freezing, psychic phenomena, and this week's cure for cancer...