Under South Africa's racist laws, the country's 12½ million citizens are being inscribed as white, colored (mixed blood) or native in a vast racial register known as the Book of Life. The government's eventual goal is to shuffle them into separate communities. Last month, as offi cials began enforcement of a 1950 law forbidding members of one race to move into quarters formerly occupied by another race, the first of what may be thousands of little neighborhood tragedies unfolded in a Johannesburg court.
Broken Window. The bewildered victim was Fred Nicholas, a swarthy...
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