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...emergency was declared on July 20 is close to 100. Tension has been steadily increasing, even in areas not covered by the emergency regulations. Anglican Bishop Desmond Tutu, the Nobel Peace laureate who has emerged as the leading voice of moderate black protest, conducted a mass funeral in Daveyton township and then personally averted an open clash between security forces and hundreds of black mourners...
...Durban township last week, thousands of Indians fled as gangs of young blacks ransacked and burned shops and houses. In Umlazi township, police used tear gas and rubber bullets against mobs of rampaging youths who burned shops and schools. In KwaMashu, a gang attacked the home of a black policeman and set it ablaze. To frightened Indians, the scene was all too reminiscent of the riots of 1949, when 142 Indians lost their lives in clashes with Zulus...
Between Wednesday and Thursday, the reported death toll in Natal jumped from four to 19. Most of the victims had apparently been coming from a memorial service for Mxenge in Umlazi township. Local newspapers reported that 16 people were dead on arrival at King Edward VIII Hospital. On Friday, some 300 people were admitted to hospitals with gunshot or assault wounds...
...harsh crystal sunlight of a South African winter, the black township of Daveyton (pop. 30,000) is a bleak monument to the law of the land: that blacks and whites shall live apart. Near the entrance to the township a large sign promises the people of Daveyton a POT OF GOLD AT THE END OF THE RAINBOW. But the little concrete houses that line the treeless streets, the dry, packed earth that everywhere passes for a garden, and the acrid smell of coal fires in the early-morning air are evidence of a far different reality. Last week the people...
...morning of April 9, at 8:30 sharp, 257 residents of Zeguo township converged on a schoolhouse to decide the future of their community. According to the rules of the event, they had been randomly selected to represent a microcosm of their town of 240,000, which lies in a prosperous manufacturing area in China's Zhejiang province. Each had completed a questionnaire on local affairs as well as a poll in which they rated the desirability of 30 government-proposed infrastructure projects. Some giggled as they pinned on pink badges labeling them "popular-will representatives." But most fell silent...