Word: suzman
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Contrary to popular opinion abroad, Mrs. Suzman says the current Prime Minister, Johannes Balthazar Vorster is no improvement over the assassinated Hendrik Verwoerd. Although Vorster is apt to make superficial concessions, (such as integrating sports for the international games in order to get South Africa into the Olympics, and deigning to dine iwth African leaders in public) in general the machinery of apartheid had already been set up by Verwoerd and all Vorster is doing is implementing...
...qualifies in either of these areas--would be classified as "A" voters and would elect about 80 per cent of the members of Parliament. The "B" grade voters would be everyone else who is literate and they would select only twenty per cent of the MP's. Mrs. Suzman says that this system is a practical compromise between the one-man-one-vote program which the Liberal Party advocates. The Liberal Party, more radical than the Progressive, has no representation in Parliament and has had several of its members arrested on subversive charges. The result...
...hold their racist views, at least understand them. Every time there is a race riot in the U.S., they feel that there is a new group of white Americans who have been forced into seeing the logic of apartheid. Commenting on the Black Muslims in the U.S., Mrs. Suzman said that it is interesting to see the many elements they have in common with the Afrikaner; they both call for racial division and separate but equal development...
...bills which Mrs. Suzman has most adamently opposed are the pass laws or in fllux laws which require an African to carry travel papers in order to go as far as, for example, from Wellesley to Cambridge. The objectives of these laws are not only to make it difficult for Africans to move about and organize a resistance to apartheid, but also to turn them into a migratory labor force. The laws make it impossible for a Black to bring his family into the city area, even if he has come to work there. They also prohibit the Africans from...
...Suzman says that her basic function is to keep a toe-hold in Parliament, kep the channels of information open, and try to counter the reactionary trend in South Africa. The conflict in Vietnam has taken much of the world attention and odium away from the regime in South Africa, but Mrs. Suzman hopes to keep a minimum of pressure on the government until inflation forces the Afrikaners into economic integration...