Word: suzman
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...RICHARD SUZMAN '64, a South African, attended Witwatersrand University in Johannesburg before transferring to Harvard. This summer he attended the congress of the National Union of South African Students...
...others, especially the younger, university-educated group, apartheid smells too much like Nazism. In the 1961 general election, Jews voted massively against the National Party, and the lone anti-apartheid crusader in the 160-member Assembly today is the pert, irrepressible Jewish wife of a Johannesburg physician, Mrs. Helen Suzman...
Only one member of the all-white Parliament voted against the bill. Amid government jeers, the lone Progressive Party representative, brunette Helen Suzman, warned that black nationalism as well as white nationalism feeds "on this type of kragdadigheid [toughness]." Although Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd and Vorster describe the menace facing South Africa as "Communism," the bill is clearly aimed at two African nationalist groups calling themselves Poqo and Spear of the Nation. Poqo (pronounced Paw-kaw and meaning "for ourselves alone" in the Xhosa tongue) patterns itself after the dreaded Mau Mau, which terrorized Kenya in the 1950s. It first...
Perhaps the best article (this reviewer too has fallen prey to academic equivocation) in the current issue is "South African Jewry in Crisis" by Richard Suzman. Suzman, a junior in Social Relations, is, we are told, a transfer student from Witwatersrand University in Johannesburg. In an extremely lucid and understated style Suzman describes the plight of South African Jews caught up in the turbulent and often violent politics of that land...
...last twelve years by Israel's votes in the United Nations and Jewish participation in "left wing opposition" to the Verwoerd regime. However, even the alternative of opposition politics will soon be eliminated. "There will be a terrible era of bloodshed in which neither side can win." Suzman writes, "and the country will polarize into White and Black, with room for nobody in the middle." Since "even now many Africans will not accept white help in their struggle," the only possible course for Jews who oppose the regime must be flight. Suzman concludes "I think that soon the highly exportable...