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Minister of Justice James Kruger issued a lengthy explanation along with his announcement that Biko had died of the effects of his hunger strike. "I'm not pleased, nor am I sorry; Biko's death leaves me cold," Kruger told delegates to the Transvaal Congress of the ruling National Party in Pretoria (later he softened this statement, expressing "human sympathy" to journalists). Kruger said that Biko was given intravenous nutrients just before he died, but Kruger noted, "If a man goes on a hunger strike, you cannot force him to eat." One delegate caustically congratulated Kruger on "being...
...enemy," said Archbishop Dennis Healey of Durban. And so it proved. When Catholic schools reopened after the Christmas holidays and reporters discovered that at least six had integrated, South Africa's provincial governments acted. Ignoring the national government's recent pledge to reduce racial discrimination, officials in Transvaal and Cape provinces threatened to close the offending schools and prosecute parents who did not transfer their children to segregated state schools...
Firm Stand. Catholic authorities stood firm. Said Father Dominic Scholten, head of the bishops' education department: "The time has come for the church to stand up and be counted." Added Sister Bernadette, headmistress of the newly integrated St. Catherine's Convent in the Transvaal town of Florida: "There are three criteria that we apply when enrolling pupils, and race is not one of them. We accept anyone who has correct moral character, intellectual ability and can pay our fees" (about $400 a year). A newspaper survey showed that 85% of those white parents who were questioned supported desegregation...
...believed to have entered Africa from the Mesopotamian valley more than 10,000 years ago, following their cattle into new grazing lands up the Nile valley and finally to the southern part of the continent and what is now Rhodesia and the South African provinces of Natal and the Transvaal...
...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...