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Also convicted of treason was the Rev. Thomas Manthatha, an activist in an area called the Vaal Triangle south of Johannesburg where the first wave of unrest erupted in September...
...years has acquired the epic aura of a Long March or a Valley Forge. Packing their women and children into ox-drawn wagons, some 6,000 Afrikaners departed from the British settlements on the coast and tramped hundreds of miles to the northeast, to the uninhabited wilderness along the Vaal River...
...million, equivalent to as much as 20% in some areas. Inflation is expected to reach 20% by the end of the year, and last week the government increased the general sales tax from 10% to 12%, double the level of a year ago. Days later, at Vaal Reefs, the world's largest gold mine, black workers struck for higher pay, in defiance of the mine's management, who insisted that the walkout was illegal. As unrest continued in several black townships, Winnie Mandela, wife of imprisoned Black Leader Nelson Mandela, said in a television interview that she foresaw nothing...
...trouble grew uglier two weeks ago, when South Africa's new constitution went into effect and Prime Minister P. (for Pieter) W. Botha, 68, was chosen as the country's powerful new Executive President. Rioting swept the black town ships in an area known as the Vaal triangle, to the south and east of Johannesburg, resulting in the deaths of at least 31 people. While the unrest was sparked by rent increases of 15% to 20% for government-owned housing, at the root of the rebellious mood was the fact that the country's 23 million blacks...
...000th car. Diamonds pour out of the big holes of De Beers near Kimberley. The busy gold mines of the Witwatersrand (Ridge of White Waters) and the Orange Free State turn out 73% of the world's supply. Not far away, in the middle of the great Vaal River coal fields, the government-owned SASOL plant turns coal into oil, the only major product in which South Africa is not self-sufficient; 18 companies are now exploring for oil in Zululand and the Karroo...