Police said Wednesday that the arrests of more than 200 black activists a day have reduced rioting this week.
against South Africa as "bad law" today, saying they would be harmful to the interests of blacks in the white-ruled nation.
President Reagan on Tuesday banned imports of Krugerrands, formally denying South Africa its most
Singer Stevie Wonder was banned Tuesday from South Africa's air waves after he accepted an Oscar "in the name of Nelson Mandela," a jailed black nationalist leader.
The government Saturday continued its roundup of leading anti-apartheid activists, detaining at least 27 officials of the United Democratic Front, and warned that a planned protest march this week on the prison where African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela is held would be turned back by force, if necessary.
Fifty-eight people were killed and 160 were injured in a train crash in Mozambique's northern Nampula province last Saturday.
Fifteen civil rights activists from around the world said Friday that South African blacks face "monstrous oppression" and urged the white regime to stop the violence that has killed more than 700 people in 13 months.
contributions to feed the starving in southern Africa, World Bank President A.
Goodwin Cooke's article (Editorial Pages, Feb. 19), "What Food Aid Does Not Do for Africa," was well written and timely.
Legislation (HR 1096) authorizing $175 million in emergency, non-food aid to African nations beset by famine has been passed by the House on a vote of 391 to 25 and has been sent to the Senate.
A hammer in one hand, Amos Rexe was pulling down his home--a three-room shack of tin, wood and plastic that he had struggled for a decade to keep.
Our son, Josh, is entering college this fall and we are concerned about the quality of education these days.
in South Africa to protest a four-day state of emergency that has resulted in 665 arrests.
The financial markets in South Africa were in turmoil and the value of the currency, the rand, nose-dived today, one day after President Pieter W.
democracy (in his view a "political abstraction") that it should be "imposed" on the black culture of South Africa, to which it is "alien."
Security forces said today that rioting blacks near Port Elizabeth killed a white soldier--the first soldier to die in the line of duty since military units were sent into violence-torn townships a year ago.
Bombs rocked the headquarters of two giant gold mining companies today hours after they agreed to rehire nearly 17,000 black mine workers fired for staging an illegal strike for higher wages.
Fierce rioting in Cape Town's mixed-race districts left office blocks and dozens of stores in ruins today, and the unofficial death toll rose to 30.
In its harshest attack on U.S. policy toward South Africa, the Soviet Union today accused President
sanctions against South Africa to express official U.S. repudiation of that country's subjugation of nonwhites.