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South Africa: A Wealth of Repression

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 September 2018

Bill Gaither
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From June 16 until the end of this year there will be 618 individual moments of silent protest in South Africa. That is the number of people known to have been killed during six months of low-level disruption, which exploded a hundred times into full-scale uprising. There is even a published list: alphabetized, date and cause of death, home address, age.

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Worldview , Volume 20 , Issue 9 , September 1977 , pp. 17 - 19
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Copyright © Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs 1977

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* As this issue of Worldview was going to press there came a new development in 1'affaire Breytenbach. According to the New York Times, "A South African judge has astounded his countrymen by declaring'Breyten Breytenbach...not guilty of promoting terrorism. Mr. Breytenbach was ijlrcady serving a nine-year sentence given him in 1975 for violating South Africa's Terrorism Act. when the Government raised new charges against him for allegedly attempting to convert his warden to membership in a white underground group, and enlisting him in an escape plan. But the judge saw the relationship between the two as innocent, a decision widely viewed as a setback for the Government, since Mr. Breytenbach was given little chance to beat the state's elaborate case. [The poet continues to serve his nine-year sentence.] In another ease, however, nine black members of the banned African National Congress were convicted of acts that 'endanger the maintenance of law and order in the Republic of South Africa.' They will be sentenced later" (July 17).The Editors