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...dramatically in South Africa, thus reducing us to a Third World country. If this is anything to do with the ruling party's skin color, America's infrastructure should ensure that it remains a First World country, notwithstanding the fact that its President-elect is African American. Vivienne Lloyd, GERMISTON, SOUTH AFRICA
...minded white rightists had tried -- and failed -- to disrupt the process of change. They had launched a campaign of small bombings against railways, power lines and A.N.C. offices in the conservative farm region west of Johannesburg. Then last week they detonated powerful car bombs in downtown Johannesburg, in neighboring Germiston and at the international airport, killing a total of 21 people and injuring more than 150. By the end of the week the police had rounded up 34 suspects, all members of the neo-Nazi Afrikaner Resistance Movement...
...another railroad clash, in Germiston east of Johannesburg, police killed three more union demonstrators. The police said they were attacked by workers wielding knives and throwing stones; union leaders insisted the police had stormed into the crowd with whips...
...neighborly love and righteousness." The church declared its doors open to all races, and it elected the liberal Heyns as its moderator. This does not mean that the church has become or is about to become fully integrated (or even partially integrated). In the gold-mining town of Germiston, the Rev. Pieter Dumas admits that some of his white parishioners have dropped out since a colored man was elected an elder for the first time. In Pretoria some 3,000 people are talking of starting a new church for whites only...
...last week's rebuff to the National Party cast doubt on Botha's ability to win support for his plan from many white Afrikaners. With more than 600 industries, including the world's largest gold refinery, Germiston (pop. 216,123) generally reflects the sentiments of the conservative industrial workers and farmers who have formed the backbone of the National Party. Said the pro-government Johannesburg Citizen: "The battle for Afrikanerdom is on with a vengeance, and the politics of South Africa will not be the same again...