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...government of Prime Minister Verwoerd last week reduced still further the shrinking circle of liberty in South Africa. With only one dissenting vote, the South African Parliament enacted a sweeping No-Trial Bill, empowering the Minister of Justice to hold whomever he chooses incommunicado and without trial for 90 days. Under this "law," which virtually destroys the rule of law in South Africa, the Government can renew the detention period endlessly...
Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd's grandiose scheme to transplant most of South Africa's 11 million natives into nine backcountry, all-black Bantustans was supposed to put an end to the country's racial unrest. Instead, it has only increased the dangerous tension between black and white...
...first Bantustan on Verwoerd's list was the Transkei, a Denmark-size (16,500 sq. mi.) area of eroded farm land on the Indian Ocean. Nobody knows the troubles it has seen. Ever since Africans went on a rampage there more than two years ago, murdering the government's handpicked tribal chiefs and setting fire to entire villages, mobile police patrols armed with Sten guns, armored cars, and helicopter spotter planes have had to stay on duty in parts of the Transkei. Fortnight ago, a white family of four were capriciously hacked to death with pangas as they...
...whites, and 14,000 coloreds will be strictly limited. All measures passed by the local legislature of tribal chiefs and elected representatives are subject to veto by the central government; Cape Town still will control justice and internal security. Money to improve the barren region will be lacking. Verwoerd has promised an annual budget subsidy of $30 million, but this falls far short of meeting the need for housing, schools, land reclamation, establishing new industry. In addition, Matanzima faces powerful political opposition from another Tembu chief, Sabata Dalindyebo, who does not like the Bantustan idea at all. Dalindyebo demands multiracial...
Anti-semitism among the white population has been stirred up in the last twelve years by Israel's votes in the United Nations and Jewish participation in "left wing opposition" to the Verwoerd regime. However, even the alternative of opposition politics will soon be eliminated. "There will be a terrible era of bloodshed in which neither side can win." Suzman writes, "and the country will polarize into White and Black, with room for nobody in the middle." Since "even now many Africans will not accept white help in their struggle," the only possible course for Jews who oppose the regime...