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...firms about following the equal- employment practices spelled out in the Sullivan Principles, which most American firms support. Black leaders also fear that corporate contributions to housing and education programs may fade. The pullout also threatens the future of Pace College, a technical school in the black Soweto township that is funded by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce of South Africa. Boycotts by student militants forced the school to close last week, but Chamber President Kenneth Mason hopes to see it reopen in January. He warns, though, that a continued exodus of American companies could keep the college closed...
...A.N.C.'s policy of nonviolence received a sudden and brutal setback in 1960 when police killed 69 unarmed blacks attending a political protest in Sharpeville, a black township 35 miles from Johannesburg. Shortly thereafter, leadership of the organization passed to two of the organization's young comers, Mandela and Tambo, who were law partners and longtime congress members. The A.N.C. was banned by the Pretoria government and began carrying out armed attacks from underground. Mandela and most other A.N.C. leaders were eventually captured and sentenced to life imprisonment for sabotage. Tambo escaped because he had been sent abroad to open...
...A.N.C. Helms contended that the evidence shows A.N.C. leadership to be "fully penetrated and dominated by members of the S.A.C.P." As the group's exile continued into the 1970s, its influence among South African blacks declined somewhat. But that changed after a mass uprising in the black township of Soweto near Johannesburg in 1976. An estimated 4,000 young blacks fled the country to avoid detention, and most of them joined the A.N.C. The result was an infusion of new blood and fighting spirit. Well before Tambo's recent declaration of a people's war, A.N.C. guerrillas armed with Soviet...
Glimpses of the enduring agony of South Africa's blacks have long been afforded to Western playgoers by Athol Fugard, two of whose works -- The Island and Sizwe Bansi Is Dead -- also emerged from township improvisations. But Woza Afrika! promises to hurl its viewers onto the other side of the fence, in the midst of the fray. Though far less polished than a Fugard play, Asinamali! is far more charged; its fury lies in its energy. Fugard's eloquent dramas turn upon the moral and emotional conundrums facing whites who wish to choose the right way; Woza Afrika! dwells...
...widow of Martin Luther King Jr., after an emotional 70-minute meeting last week with Winnie Mandela, wife of Nelson Mandela, the imprisoned South African black activist. Winnie Mandela also admitted to being moved by the American's visit to her red brick home in Soweto, the sprawling black township on the outskirts of Johannesburg. Calling King "a symbol of what my people continue sacrificing for," she added, "We draw a great deal of inspiration from her strength and courage." For King, who was in South Africa for the installation of Desmond Tutu as Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town...