General in South Africa

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The black revolt in South Africa continues to gather strength even in the face of increasingly indiscriminate murder and repression from the racist authorities.

In Johannesburg the second general strike in a month lasted three days and was responded to by about three quarters of all black workers in the city.

The police reacted by a campaign of mass arrests. In Soweto and Alexandra (Johannesburg's main black suburbs) well over 1,000 workers were arrested in house to house searches in which anyone not at work or school was taken into custody.

Some of the most ghastly events in the campaign of police terror occurred when Soweto JOINT STRUGGLE school students occupied their schools in protest against Kissinger's visit.

Police fired on them indiscriminately, murdering on their own admission ten students.

Many others received either bullet wounds or head wounds from rifle butts.

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The official estimates admit that over fifty coloured demonstrators have been killed in the last two weeks in Cape Town and the 25 other towns and cities in Cape Province to which the revolt has now spread.

Last week also the revolt for the first time reached Natal, the only one of South Africa's four provinces until then still unaffecIn Durban and Port Elizabeti marches of several hundred schoo students were arrested en mass by the police. - The revolt, then, is now nation wide and has moved completel out of the control, not only of thi racist. government, but also o those who have posed as leader of the black South Africans.

The regime has no answer ti the movement apart from murder ous repression because it has neve permitted the development of an significant layer of reformis leaders who might be able to play their treacherous role of divertin! the mass movement into compro mise and defeat.

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