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...international intrigue. But because of its geographical position as the southern-most independent African capital, it is the logical gateway to the south. Today at least nine exile political parties have headquarters there, representing refugees from South Africa, Mozambique, Southern Rhodesia, Southwest Africa, and the British protectorates of Swaziland and Bechuanaland. Other refugees from as far away as Angola, Rwanda, Mauritius, the Sudan, and the Comorro Islands help fill the city with exotic names and languages...
Ethiopia, Basutoland, Bechuanaland, and Swaziland will send students to the United States under the program for the first time next year. Only countries in Sub-Sahara Africa participate in the program...
...happy police, and South African jails are filled to the roof with 1,575 political prisoners, including 94 white allies of the blacks. Hundreds more are being arrested daily. Those leaders who escaped the massive roundups have gone underground or fled to the safety of the British protectorates of Swaziland, Bechuanaland and Basutoland. Leaderless and with their larders emptied by the stay-at-home strikes of the past month, the impoverished blacks ignored the order of the African National Congress to stay off the job one more week, and trooped glumly back to work...
Voice of Conscience. A few protests came from the tiny group of Progressive Party members of Parliament, but the loudest voice of opposition came from churchmen. From Swaziland, where he had fled to avoid arrest by Verwoerd's police, Ambrose Reeves, Anglican Bishop of Johannesburg, published an Easter message: "As Christians, we dare not pretend that we have no responsibility for all that is happening in South Africa ... To do that would make us absentees from history." Militant Joost de Blank, Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, aimed his attack at the Dutch Reformed Church, which provides the philosophic base...
...sending a representative to Geneva to ask the World Council of Churches to expel the South African Dutch Reformed Church unless it takes a stand against Verwoerd's harsh racism. Johannesburg's Anglican Bishop R. A. Reeves, an outspoken defender of black rights, fled to nearby Swaziland for fear of imminent arrest...