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...they are true. Du Plessis is one of three American representatives of the National Union of South African Students (NUSAS), one of the largest multi-racial organizations in South Africa which actively opposes the apartheid policies of the resume of Hendrik Verwoerd. About ten NUSAS members have been "detained" by the government in recent months under a law which enables police to hold citizens almost indefinitely without filing formal criminal charges. Last month the South African Security Police raided NUSAS head-quarters in Capetown, removing eight documents and recording several names. Also in recent months various government ministers have publicly...
Open only to white Afrikaans Christians, the Studentbond, is not recognized by any international student group. It strongly favors the Verwoerd government and adheres unswervingly to the official dogma of apartheid...
Raid on Rivonia. Bespectacled and slightly stooped, with a black beard (when last seen), Goldreich won South Africa's 1955 Best Young Painter award for his Figures in Black and White, designed sets and costumes for King Kong, the famed South African musical. To Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd's regime, he was a key suspect in the clandestine operations of the anti-apartheid underground. Last month police descended on the artist's swank home in the Johannesburg suburb of Rivonia, arrested Goldreich, his wife Hazel, four other white men, and a dozen nonwhites...
Dark Mutterings. The case called attention to the fact that among South African whites who oppose Verwoerd's apartheid, perhaps the most zealous are Jews. The bulk of South Africa's 116,000 Jews tacitly condone apartheid, the Jewish Board of Deputies has always been careful not to attack it, and some of the wealthiest Jews contribute to Verwoerd's National Party. But to thousands of others, especially the younger, university-educated group, apartheid smells too much like Nazism. In the 1961 general election, Jews voted massively against the National Party, and the lone anti-apartheid crusader...
Despite such opposition and Verwoerd's own pro-Nazi past, Jews have so far been unmolested by the regime. The Goldreich escape, however, touched off ominous rumblings. Last week when Criminal Investigation Chief Reinier J. van den Bergh mentioned the Rivonia raid in a speech, a voice from the audience cried: "Jews!" Van den Bergh allowed that foes of apartheid might be "instruments of Jews...