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...visitors had traveled only ten miles from Pretoria to the black township of Mamelodi. But it was a vast journey, from the affluent white world of South Africa to its Third World of black poverty. The 173 whites, many of them members of the Dutch Reformed Church, came to Mamelodi, home to as many as half a million people, last week to strike a small blow against apartheid. For four days they lived and ate with blacks, slept in cramped homes, some without electricity and indoor plumbing, and washed at backyard faucets. "The tragedy of apartheid that we learn from...
...hours before the hangings were to take place. The court said there was new evidence of possible perjury by a key state witness in the case of the so-called Sharpeville Six. The six were convicted in connection with the 1984 killing of a councilman in the black township of Sharpeville, even though they were not found to have had a direct role in the slaying but only to have been in "common purpose" with a murderous crowd. Earlier in the week police turned out in force in Cape Town when Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu led a service, attended...
...visit to Mamelodi was organized by Nico Smith, 58, the only resident white minister in an urban black township. In the early 1980s he turned his back on the powerful Dutch Reformed Church and became a minister in the black branch of the church in Mamelodi. In 1986 he moved into the township with his wife Ellen, a child psychiatrist. Says Smith: "The whites of this country have got to see what pain there is under the black skin...
Among Vlok's targets were the United Democratic Front, the large antigovernment umbrella organization with more than 600 township affiliates claiming 2 million members nationwide; the Azanian People's Organization, an all-black radical group; the Detainees Parents' Support Committee; the Release Mandela Committee; and several youth and civic groups. Vlok claimed that he was taking action against those "who persist in promoting a revolutionary climate," but the decree in effect outlaws almost all extraparliamentary protest by blacks, even if it is nonviolent. Said Azhar Cachalia, the U.D.F. treasurer: "The government has declared war against all peaceful opposition...
...extraordinary construction boom, bolstered by urban black improvement schemes that were developed, often under international pressure, by local and foreign South African business organizations. Even before the lifting of residence and property restrictions, blacks were beginning to enjoy better wages, job opportunities and employment benefits. Expanded credit to township homeowners and developers, totaling some $30 million a month, has helped catapult large numbers of blacks from low-income to middle-income and even luxury housing. A Cape Town conference attended by government officials and political leaders two weeks ago held out the promise of even greater progress, as successive speakers...