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...since June, when he returned to Soweto--a black township outside Johannesburg--Qoboza's paper has taken increasingly vocal opposition to the government's policy of racial segregation, although The World has continued to advocate change through nonviolence...
...rejected the Transkei, and, according to Africa magazine, some of them plan to sabotage the new state by methods more forceful than diplomatic boycotts. Whether or not that happens, the Transkei will remain isolated from the mainstream of the black freedom movement in South Africa, a movement that the Soweto riots this summer have shown to be growing steadily. But today's ceremony shows only the degradation some will accept for a semblance of power; it in no way reflects the will of the people of the Transkei, or South Africa...
...always been in the ox-wagon wing of the party. His head told him it was time to be more liberal, but the heart still rules him." A year ago, Vorster was regarded as belonging to the verligte (enlightened, or moderate) wing of the party; but since the Soweto rioting began, the center of the ruling National Party has shown a greater willingness to compromise; Vorster has hardly budged...
Even if the homelands policy works as a device for deflecting future claims by blacks to power in Pretoria, it will do nothing to ameliorate a more immediate problem for the regime: growing anti-white rage among the urban blacks needed to run the South African economy. In Soweto (pop. 1 million), near Johannesburg, less than a third of the blacks' dwellings have electric lights; less than a tenth have running water. In the slum sections, robbery and rape are commonplace; says a woman from the Naledi section of Soweto: "I pray we could have daylight for all 24 hours...
...used to be able to take white friends there," a black reporter told a white colleague recently, "and they would be welcome. But if I smuggled you in now, there would be trouble." Last month, when a white commission went to Soweto to investigate the rioting, its members got some straight talk from Tolica J. Makhaya, the council chairman (or mayor). "You are facing the last generation of blacks who are willing to negotiate," Makhaya declared. "The younger generation is calling us fools because we achieve nothing. You must meet with black leaders the government has detained, and talk with...