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Despite the hostility directed at the country from abroad?and the anger burning from within?white South Africa remains curiously peaceful. The street tensions and stonings within its removed black townships???even the ongoing massive school boycott by 200,000 students in Soweto?fail to transmit more than a ripple to what Novelist Nadine Gordimer (A World of Strangers) calls the "dreadful calm" of white society. So distant do such events seem, in fact, that most whites only learn of them from their newspapers. Of Johannesburg's white population of 600,000, precious few have ever set foot in Soweto...
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