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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...
...form of admission policy based on criteria other than academic criteria." His colleges have denounced almost unanimously the proposed quota system as an affront to the principles of university autonomy and racial equity in higher education. Furthermore, the senate of the largest institution involved, the University of the Witwatersrand, issued a pointed statement last month, nothing that the University's leaders condemned any attempt to "compel the university to become an instrument of the Government's policy of discrimination against students on grounds of race...