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Under the harsh illogic of apartheid, South Africa's 11 million blacks are restricted chiefly to unskilled labor, but at least some of them have been permitted to seek out their own humble jobs. Last week Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd's regime prepared to erase even that right. Gaveled through Parliament was an amendment to the Bantu Laws designed to give the government total control over the employment, place of residence and movements of every African worker...
...last January that Kenneth Kaunda's Northern Rhodesian government was free to permit refugees safe passage on their way north. Scores have already made the trip through Freedom Alley. Thousands more will follow as South Africa's black and colored people grow ever more restive under Hendrik Verwoerd's oppressive regime. Most of the refugees are young men (usually in their 20s or 30s) headed for freedom-fighter training camps, either around Tanganyika's capital of Dar es Salaam or else in the Leopoldville Congo, where promising recruits are picked for intensive guerrilla and sabotage courses...
...Head. In part, the influx is the result of a government campaign to lure European skilled craftsmen and professionals, who are in short supply in South Africa. The Verwoerd regime desperately wants to change the population balance, which currently stands at 3,250,000 whites v. 13,815,000 Africans, Coloreds and Asians. In cities across Europe, newspaper ads extol the virtues of South Africa, and recruitment centers offer a $168 grant for each approved man, woman and child immigrant...
...confused and antagonistic judiciary." Nkrumah completed the outrage when, in violation of Ghana's constitution, he sacked Sir Arku Korsah, 69, a widely respected jurist who in 1956 became Ghana's first black Chief Justice. Noting that even South Africa's high-handed Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd has never interfered with the judiciary, a shocked British official said: "This is the Stalinist technique...
...white man who seeks a peaceful revolution, but he feels the ground giving way beneath him. Soon the place where he now stands may be a gaping chasm. On one side will be the white supporters of Verwoerd, on the other the militant blacks, "the men of blood." If it comes to that, the white liberal will have no place in South Africa, no matter what the new order brings. Adrian Du Plessis and his comrades will be strangers in their own land...