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Shortly after dawn one day last week in Pretoria, hundreds of South African women began to gather beneath the office windows of Prime Minister Johannes G. Strydom. Some were white, some were brown, most were black. Many wore the green-black-and-gold colors of the African National Congress, and many wore tribal regalia; many had traveled hundreds of miles by rickety bus across South Africa's dust-swept veld to get there, lunch baskets in their hands and babies strapped to their backs. All the women bore personal petitions to Strydom. Focus of their protest: the government...
...more mystical each year. Its 650 millions are not united by allegiance to the Crown (India and Pakistan refuse it), or by common culture, or by language, religion or policy. The nine Commonwealth Prime Ministers gathered in London last week ranged from South Africa's racist Johannes Strydom, a Boer who dislikes the British influence almost as much as he dislikes Indians, to India's Jawaharlal Nehru, who is heard in such surroundings with some deference but little affection. They did not talk in council about matters that touched some of them most, e.g., Kashmir...
...Town (pop. 385,000) is an island of tolerance. In the city's buses white and black ride together. There is no segregation at city hall concerts or at public libraries. Of the 45 city councilmen, six are nonwhite. Last year, at the direction of Nationalist Prime Minister Strydom, the provincial government passed a law giving the local governor power to impose apartheid on reluctant urban communities and bill them for its cost. Cape Town ignored the ordinance...
...rare smile lit the stony face of South Africa's Nationalist Prime Minister Johannes Strydom last week. After five years of relentless campaigning, this taut, thin-lipped, back-country lawyer and ostrich farmer had won the parliamentary fight to establish white supremacy in a land of 2,600,000 whites and 10,000,000 nonwhites. Its Upper House now packed with 41 new, Strydom-created Senators to furnish the necessary votes, Parliament bowled heavily through a final joint session to change an "entrenched clause" in the 1909 South African constitution and strike the last 45,000 Colored (mixed blood...
...Cape Town residence of the Prime Minister. Around 9 of the summer's evening, a caravan of 130 cars, filled with 156 Nationalist parliamentarians and wives, drove slowly up to the great house whose grounds overlook two oceans. "We have come to sing," announced a spokesman. Mrs. Strydom invited the crowd inside, ordered the kitchen blacks to prepare coffee and Boerebiskuit (Afrikaans for shortbread) for all. As the Prime Minister came into the hall a moment later, the visitors broke into old Boer war songs-the Volksliederen of the Transvaal and the Orange Free State. Then the Senate...