Word: bloemfontein
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...address before a provincial congress of his ruling National Party in Bloemfontein, Botha declared that South Africa would henceforth grant citizenship to those blacks who live in the country's urban areas but are nominal citizens of the four "independent" homelands created within the boundaries of South Africa over the past nine years. A day later, a presidential commission recommended to Botha the scrapping of "influx control" regulations, or pass laws, by which the movements of South African blacks have been controlled since...
...defeat and pain when she collided with American Archrival Mary Decker; in an application to regain the South African citizenship she so swiftly surrendered last spring in order to compete in Los Angeles as a Briton and circumvent the Olympic ban on her country's athletes; in Bloemfontein, South Africa. The move effectively ends her international running career and the lucrative endorsement deals that might have accompanied...
...British subject, the stocky dean has long been an outspoken opponent of the government's racial policies. He had been convicted of supporting violent revolution and of distributing funds for an illegal anti-apartheid organization. Last week, in a 226-page judgment, three appellate judges at Bloemfontein ruled that the mere expression of antigovernment views, "even in somewhat intemperate terms," could not be equated with terrorism. The verdict, as one clergyman put it, was a triumph "not only for the church but for the judiciary...
Members of the Harvard College Observatory and the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory are protesting the continued use of Smithsonian funds to support the Boyden Observing Station in Bloemfontein, South Africa...
...weeks, we are told. Though I have not been able to read the article, as a Canadian priest serving a "colored" community, I can affirm that apartheid is not only a delusion. It is a monstrous evil-blasphemous, antiChristian, immoral, inhuman and unjust. (THE REV.) R. L. W. RITCHIE Bloemfontein, South Africa...