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Finally, Dillon, chairman of Butler Manufacturing Company in Kansas City. Mo., whose Overseer term expires next June, sits on the board of New York-based Phelps Dodge Company Phelps Dodge, which manufactures rare metal products, owns a flourspar mine in the Western Transvaal which employs 185 people. It also own 44 percent of Black Mountain Mineral Development Company, which operates a lead and silver mine and employs 1500 people. That 44 percent stake produced $1.7 million for Phelps Dodge (out of 1984 revenues of $977.38 million), but company spokesman Richard W. Pendleton says Phelps Dodge plans to sell...
...million people of mixed race and 850,000 Indians. The 4.7 million whites still have the final say on all important matters and, of course, blacks remain totally unrepresented. Riots later swept the economically depressed black townships to the south and east of Johannesburg. Then came a Transvaal labor stoppage: 800,000 black workers took part; 6,000 of them were fired. In the past 14 weeks, as a result of the unrest, 163 people have been killed and hundreds injured, most by security forces. So far this year, 1,093 people have been detained in South Africa...
...Union of Mineworkers, was formed in 1982. The walkout at gold and coal mines was called off at the last minute, however, when management agreed to raise the workers' holiday pay. But word of the compromise evidently did not reach all the mines, and throughout the gold-rich Transvaal and Orange Free State some 40,000 blacks refused to go underground for their usual shifts. When they did not disperse, police riot squads moved in, and the angry miners responded with showers of stones. In two days of such confrontations, seven blacks were killed and more than 250 injured...
Since the Sharpeville massacre, the ANC has developed a mass following and an increased paramilitary sophistication. In June 1980, the ANC simultaneously blew up two coal-to-oil fuel installations in the Orange Free State and Transvaal regions. And the newly leaked CIA report says the ANC's "major incidents" against the state increased from 10 in 1980 to 41 in 1981. Even now, the organization exercises restraint, as the CIA points out: "It is clear the ANC could have inflicted a large number of white casualties if it had chosen...
...formal gardens in a northern suburb of Johannesburg. Decorations include paintings by Chagall, Goya, Renoir and Picasso, and bookshelves are lined with first editions of Lord Byron and other poets. Oppenheimer owns a stud farm where he raises prize race horses, and a 900-acre game preserve in eastern Transvaal...