Word: witwatersrand
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...network of allied organizations. Among them: the Pretoria-based Lawyers for Human Rights, which presses private law firms to take public-interest cases; the Black Lawyers' Association and its offshoot the Legal Education Center in Johannesburg; and the Institute for Applied Legal Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand. All participate in a thriving exchange of students and professors between the U.S. and South Africa. Says John Dugard, head of the Institute for Applied Legal Studies: "These days, even high-court judges are making study trips to the U.S. Our legal education system is looking more and more...
Such viciousness is a regular occurrence in South Africa today. Two people were killed by necklaces in Soweto, the sprawling black township outside Johannesburg, on New Year's Day. Steve Kgame, a well-known community leader in the Soweto-Witwatersrand area who has faced demands from radicals to quit his local government post, was in serious condition last week with gunshot wounds in the head and chest. Near Durban, two officials of Inkatha, a political organization made up mainly of members of the Zulu tribe, died earlier this month after fire bombs struck their homes. Outside Port Elizabeth, a vengeful...
Many vigilantes are middle-class people who are willing to strike back at the comrades to protect their property and the positions they have achieved. A recent study by Jeremy Seekings of Witwatersrand University found that they include shopkeepers, taxi owners, teachers, police officers and town councilors. Seekings says such people are driven by their "material interest in stability, a related inclination toward conservatism and fear for their lives and property...
...that new laws had reined in the courts' ability to make trouble, the government selected judges on the basis of merit. The newer appointees included younger jurists who had been exposed to the U.S. civil rights movement. Now, says John Dugard, a law professor at the University of the Witwatersrand, "we are seeing a new generation of judges who are concerned with curbing the excesses of the administration and with the upholding of civil liberties...
...four activists who had organized a protest meeting in that tiny town near Pretoria in the independent homeland of Bophuthatswana. In the Pretoria area alone, 56 antiapartheid activists have been the targets of attacks during the past ten months. Says Nicholas Haysom, a lecturer at the University of the Witwatersrand and author of a new book on the growing phenomenon: "Vigilante activity has been directed at the destruction of opposition institutions and policies...