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Johannesburg's crusading editor, Laurence Gandar, 50, of the Rand Daily Mail, had been looking forward to a visit to Britain, on an invitation mailed him just the week before by an admiring British newspaper group. Then, suddenly, two of Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd's detectives changed his plans by calling at his home and relieving him of his passport - indefinitely. Joked Gandar: "For a moment, it struck me that somebody here might have been reading my mail. But I dismissed so unworthy a thought...
...stringer asking for details. "I dare not risk prosecution and gaoling by cabling this story," answered Stringer Benjamin Pogrund. He had reason for his fears. He had written the story in the first place for the nation's most outspoken newspaper, the Rand Daily Mail. And Prime Minister Verwoerd's police were already making trouble...
...South African government, which encouraged them to visit Rand mines for electioneering among the thousands of Basuto laborers who planned to go home to vote. No such campaigning facilities were permitted the Peking-backed Basutoland Congress Party, a bitter enemy of the government of Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd. Nevertheless, Congress won 25 of the 60 seats in the Assembly and vowed to carry on its campaign to break all relations with South Africa, even if it meant starvation...
...when he took over last October was the matter of Rhodesia, the self-governing colony bordering South Africa. Once part of the Central African Federation-whose two black-ruled regions last year broke away to win separate nationhood-Rhodesia's white supremacist leaders have looked with longing to Verwoerd's apartheid state for support, now threaten to declare, unilaterally, their independence from Britain. To try to head them off, Wilson dispatched Commonwealth Relations Secretary Arthur Bottomley in search of common ground between Rhodesia's two varieties of freedom-loving people -the European minority, which wants freedom under...
...true black nationalist hates. With the two other British High Commission territories of Basutoland and Swaziland, Seretse's domain is joined with South Africa in a customs union, uses South African currency, and in the past has cooperated in transportation, trade, health and general development with Dr. Hendrik Verwoerd's regime. Indeed, some 30,000 Bechuanas depend on employment in the South African gold fields for a livelihood...