After decades of debate over the potentially corrupting influences of television, South Africa last week was in the words of one Johannesburg columnist "dragged, kicking and screaming, into the TV age." More than a million view ers, mostly whites who paid up to $1,200 for color sets, watched the five-hour nightly programs, broadcast in both English and Afrikaans. They included Shane, the Bob Newhart Show, news broadcasts, a concert by the Orchestre de Paris and the film oldie Oklahoma!
Hardly the sort of licentious fare that would inflame Zulu houseboys to run up stairs and rape madame, as...
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