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...Standing in a dusty street one day last week, he recalled with a mixture of admiration and apprehension the legendary days of the 19th century wars against the whites by South Africa's largest and fiercest tribe (see box below). This time, however, the target of the angry Zulus in Soweto was the black militants-the student leaders and other activists who were leading a three-day boycott to prevent Soweto's 250,000-member black labor force from going to work in Johannesburg, 15 miles away...
...city of terror. Forming an extended battle line in the manner of the Zulu warriors of old, they surged through the township chanting "Bulala! Bulala!" (Kill! Kill!). Thousands of blacks, particularly the young, attempted to flee. Many camped out in front of police stations seeking protection against the marauding Zulus. An African priest described how a 16-year-old schoolboy was chased into his church by a band of Zulus who dragged the boy from the priest's arms and clubbed him to death. Before the fighting was over, 35 had been killed and perhaps 200 injured...
...been turned over. Even if it were, black chiefs say, the total area would still be inadequate. Vorster claims that he cannot grant more land because the 1936 act ties his hands. "Nonsense," retorts Gatsha Buthelezi, 45, chief minister for the country's 4,250,000 Zulus. "Parliament made that law in 1936, and it can unmake...
...Youth gangs are the only form of organized resistance left in the ghetto," Scott said. He alleged that the CIA had decimated the large memberships of Chicago's Black P. Stone Nation and Philadelphia's Zulus "because they have fought slave labor...
...week, many of the Durban strikers were returning to work, but their protest had left its mark on the country. As the Rand Daily Mail observed: "The Zulus have brought home to employers that they can no longer get away with appallingly low wages...