Word: transvaal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...peace in the area. The way to prevent more such violence in the future, he declared, was not to make concessions to blacks on the teaching of Afrikaans but to take even tougher law-and-order measures. Before leaving for West Germany, he appointed Petrus Malan Cillie, a white Transvaal judge, to launch a judicial inquiry into the riots. Both white and black newspapers found the action insensitive and called for a multiracial commission. Asked the Johannesburg Star in an editorial: "Is it possible for a white investigator, no matter how distinguished, to see the grievances and subsequent disturbances...
Exactly how and why a student protest became a killer riot may not be known until the conclusion of an elaborate inquiry that will be carried out by Justice Petrus Cillie, Judge President of the Transvaal. But already last week, South Africans−white and black alike−were seeking to interpret the soul-cry of rage that came from Soweto. Some whites saw in the violence a nightmarish vision of South Africa's future if the government ever eases its rigid rule over the blacks. There were demands that Parliament enact emergency legislation to prevent a recurrence...
...ironfistedness his fellow Afrikaners call kragdadigheid. He was known as "Jackboot John" when he served as Justice Minister under his National Party predecessor, Dr. Hendrik Verwoerd (who was stabbed by a demented clerk on the floor of the South African Parliament in 1966). The son of a Transvaal farmer, Vorster in his youth joined anti-English Afrikaner nationalist movements, becoming a "general" in what was believed to be a terrorist wing of the so-called Ox Wagon Guard, a pro-Nazi movement. His militant opposition to the Allied war effort cost him 20 months of internment. To this day Vorster...
...during the Yom Kippur War. The direct effect of the embargo has been minimal. Endowed by nature with rich coal deposits, South Africa derives only 20% of its energy from oil, v. 46% for the U.S. Even so, it thoughtfully stockpiled oil in advance. Buried deep in otherwise unused Transvaal coal mines is an undisclosed number of barrels...
...runup, played-out mines are coming back to life. A young Johannesburg businessman named Desmond Fisher has bought a mine that has not been active for 13 years, and intends to bring it back into production by year's end at a cost of $1 million. At one Transvaal mine closed for a decade, 25 kilograms of gold worth about $145,000 at present prices have been produced in the past two months solely by reworking old tailings. The Grootvlei mine, which appeared to be near the end of its productive life several years ago, has boosted its profitable...