In South Africa's Parliament last week Opposition Leader Sir De Villiers Graaff called for a vote of no confidence in the government. "Apartheid," he cried, "has become something like Mohammed's coffin suspended between the heaven of total apartheid and the earth of the hard facts of the South African situation, with farmers, industrialists and mining interests demanding more labor."
As usual, the Nationalist majority easily (91-48) overrode the opposition United Party's no-confidence motion. But the Nationalists are in serious disarray. Prime Minister Johannes Gerhardus Strydom has been ill for months with a heart ailment, and a doctor's report last week made...
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