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Thousands of miles away from this explosive unrest, another upheaval was under way last week, this one in Washington. It centered on a single word: divestiture. That technical term, meaning the forced sale of stock or other assets, ordinarily arouses emotions only among antitrust lawyers. But as applied to U.S. relations with South Africa, it has set off one of the most passionate and confused debates since the Viet Nam War. The issues: Should American companies be pressured to sell or close their operations in the land of apartheid? And should U.S. universities, pension funds, local governments and other groups...
Those demonstrations are bound to be fueled by continuing images of the unrest that has gripped South Africa for the past ten months, ever since militant opposition to the government's apartheid policy began taking root in the black townships. During that period, more than 400 blacks have died, some at the hands of police, others in a struggle between rival black factions, still others because of suspected loyalty to the white authorities...
...unrest in the country's largest black township (pop. an estimated 1.2 million) began on Wednesday. Hundreds of students stormed aboard six municipal buses and demanded to be taken to a magistrates court where 105 black youths were being charged with holding an illegal demonstration at the home of Edward Kunene, Soweto's mayor. The students sang and chanted outside the courthouse until mounted police cleared the area with tear gas and rubber bullets. About 500 of the protesters were arrested but then released after the bus company declined to press hijacking charges. The students soon joined thousands of other...
...South African government imposed its state of emergency, TIME's Johannesburg bureau mobilized to report this week's cover story on the civil unrest and the system of apartheid that fosters it. Violence was an ever present concern. Photographers Selwyn Tait and William Campbell have been repeatedly gassed by police and stoned by residents during recent ventures into black townships. Says Campbell: "As a white, one can almost feel the hate while driving through the streets. The stones that residents used to throw at our cars have now been replaced by half-bricks...
...enforced structure of racial separation, and followed earlier, ineffective repressions by the government. Almost 500 people, practically all of them black, died during that extended and bloody period of confrontation, some at the hands of fellow blacks, the majority as the result of police action to put down the unrest. Botha's proclamation of the emergency was intended to end the violence and bring about what General Johan Coetzee, the national police commissioner, described as a "cooling down of the situation as soon as possible." Under the emergency regulations, police were allowed to enter homes, seize property, detain without charge...