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...included 23 whites, 105 Negroes, 21 Asians and seven mixed-blood "coloreds." They were clergymen, doctors, lawyers, educators and trade unionists, and their real offense was not treason as it is understood in Anglo-Saxon law but bitter opposition to the apartheid racist policies of Premier Johannes Strydom. Under South Africa's Suppression of Communism Act. anyone who aims at "the encouragement of feelings of hostility between European and non-European" can be declared a Communist-and therefore, presumptively, a traitor...
Like the vague charge of "vagrancy" in the hands of a determined U.S. cop, South Africa's Suppression of Communism Act provides Premier Johannes Strydom with a handy gimmick for arresting anybody he deems undesirable. The difference is that a hoodlum pulled in by a U.S. cop can usually get free in the morning...
...last week, using the Suppression of Communism Act as their excuse, the special security police charged with imposing Strydom's will on his country swooped down on scores of homes throughout the cities of South Africa and arrested 140 people: clergymen, trade unionists, doctors, lawyers and private citizens. The one "crime" they had in common was bitter opposition to the apartheid racist policies of the Strydom regime...
Last week, in line with racist Premier Strydom's new native policy, the Negro basketmakers of Korsten. now numbering more than 1,300, were told to pack up and go home by Oct. 12. The government's reason: the basketmakers are self-sufficient, will not join South Africa's low-paid labor force. All expenses of the move (at least $20,000), said the government order, must be borne by the basketweavers themselves, and anyone refusing to go will have his assets seized and be put to work until he has earned enough to pay his fare...
...delegation got as far as Strydom's secretary, only to be told that the Prime Minister was out. The delegation dumped their petitions on the secretary's desk and returned to tell the crowd what had happened. From the audience came cries of "Shame!" The leaders then called for 30 minutes of silence as a nonviolent protest. Obediently the women rose, and raised their hands, thumbs turned upward in the salute of the National Congress...