According to the South African Police, Wellington Tshazibane was found hanging in his cell from a noose made of strips of blanket, two days after he was arrested.
Source: Sunday Times Heritage Project
Saturday, December 11, 1976
Sunday, August 15, 1976
South Africa Threatens Restraints on the Press
The South African Government, embittered by local newspaper coverage of the unrest in black townships, has threatened to impose new restraints on the press.
Connie P Mulder, the information Minister, told a congress of the ruling National Party in Durban that the Government attached great importance to press freedom. But he said that society had the right to expect loyalty and partiotism from newspapers. The Minister was critical in particularly of two of Johannesburg's principal newspapers, The Rand Daily Mail and The Sunday Times. He said The Sunday Times was one of the papers that had described apartheid, not black unrest, as the real danger to the country. "In a country where relations between peoples are as loaded as ours, it is irresponsible to say this" he declared.
Mr Mulder said one of the restraints he had in mind was a requirement that all opinion formers be South African citizens competent in both English and Afrikaans, the language of the dominant white group in South Africa. He said this would eliminate foreigners who could take the first plane home if trouble erupted as a result of their writing.
Newspapers already operate under a web of legal restraints affecting security and defense matters, among others. Two weeks ago, four journalists were arrested under the Suppression of Communism Act, which provides for detention without trial.
The minister's warnong came in the aftermath of the arrest of at least 20 black opposition leaders, including Winnie Mandela, wife of Nelson Mandela, the black nationalist leader who was jailed 14 years ago. Some reports put the number arrested by the security police in swoops across the country yesterday as high as 50.
The Government has given no reason for the arrests.
Source: New York Times
Connie P Mulder, the information Minister, told a congress of the ruling National Party in Durban that the Government attached great importance to press freedom. But he said that society had the right to expect loyalty and partiotism from newspapers. The Minister was critical in particularly of two of Johannesburg's principal newspapers, The Rand Daily Mail and The Sunday Times. He said The Sunday Times was one of the papers that had described apartheid, not black unrest, as the real danger to the country. "In a country where relations between peoples are as loaded as ours, it is irresponsible to say this" he declared.
Mr Mulder said one of the restraints he had in mind was a requirement that all opinion formers be South African citizens competent in both English and Afrikaans, the language of the dominant white group in South Africa. He said this would eliminate foreigners who could take the first plane home if trouble erupted as a result of their writing.
Newspapers already operate under a web of legal restraints affecting security and defense matters, among others. Two weeks ago, four journalists were arrested under the Suppression of Communism Act, which provides for detention without trial.
The minister's warnong came in the aftermath of the arrest of at least 20 black opposition leaders, including Winnie Mandela, wife of Nelson Mandela, the black nationalist leader who was jailed 14 years ago. Some reports put the number arrested by the security police in swoops across the country yesterday as high as 50.
The Government has given no reason for the arrests.
Source: New York Times
Friday, July 2, 1976
North and South Vietnam Are Officially Reunified After 22 Years
North and South Vietnam were officially reunited today after more than 20 years of war, and Hanoi was declared the capital. The Hanoi radio said that leaders of the new Socialist Republic of Vietnam had been elected in the National Assembly by secret ballot.
Source: New York Times
Source: New York Times
Sunday, June 20, 1976
Somber Warning
Rioting in black communities around Johannesburg, and harsh governmental countermeasures which the United Nations Security Council by unanimous consensus vigorously condemned yesterday, should dispel whatever doubts may have remained about the practical as well as the moral impossibility of maintaining African enclaves founded on apartheid.
Source: New York Times
Source: New York Times
Saturday, June 19, 1976
U.N. Council Asked to Condemn South Africa and Act on Riots
The Security Council was called into emergency session last night at the request of 47 African nations to consider a resolution on the situation in South Africa.
Source: New York Times
Source: New York Times
Kissinger Says He'll Stress Apartheid in Vorster Talks
Kissinger said today that the United States regretted the outbreak of violence in South Africa and that he would express continued opposition to apartheid when he met next week with Prime Minister John B. Vorster.
Source: New York Times
Source: New York Times
SOUTH AFRICA TOLL RISES TO 58 DEAD; NEARLY 800 HURT
Rioting continued for a third day today in Soweto, with the rioters, mostly young people, directing their fury at government buildings and vehicles.
Source: New York Times
Source: New York Times
Thursday, June 17, 1976
6 Killed in South Africa as Blacks Protest on Language
At least six people died in Soweto today when a demonstration by 10,000 black students turned into a riot.
Source: New York Times
Source: New York Times
Wednesday, June 16, 1976
Angolan Witnesses Testify Against Mercenaries
Angolan prosecution witnesses accused 13 British and American mercenaries today of murder, massacre, laying minefields, abuse of civilians, pillage and the destruction of property.
Source: New York Times
Source: New York Times
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