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Contents: Preface • The Black Light of the Three Million Stars • Violence rooted in the New Politics of 1990 • The police are the midwives to a rebirth of thuggery • The Community organizes its own Defense • Some one kills the Weedy One: Christmas in February • George's sister carries on • Where do we go from here? • The report says in October last year, the American Friends Service Committee sent a delegation of six people to visit South Africa; their mission was to examine the issue of violence in that country. The report says one of the members of the AFSC team was the Rev. Edgar Lockwood, a retired Episcopal priest, who lives in Falmouth, Massachusetts; in the story which follows he draws a picture of what the violence looks like close up in a quiet African township in the Orange Free State. The report discusses Mrs. Rantie, Mambefo Merriam, Tsietsi, police, the Seisoville section of Maokeng, murder, South Africa's townships, the African National Congress (ANC), the Women's League, Kroonstad, security forces, majority rule, Parliament, Deputy Minister of Defense Mr. Breytenbach, the Three Million Stars gang, Inkatha, apartheid, military intelligence, a Crisis Committee, the Black City Council, the United Democratic Front (UDF), workers, the Premier Milling company, pickpockets, burglars, murderers. Captain Nsimanga, community activists, George Ramasemong, the Maokeng City Council, the Maokeng Crisis Committee, a rent boycott, George Daniels, Blackie, Lethibe Tau, Dennis Bloem, a self-defense unit, the Comrades, drinking places, the public school, students, an illegal gathering, the magistrate court, a taxi stand, the Supreme Court, Lawyers for Human Rights, criminals, Sergeant Mufeking, Troubou, Lieutenant Ramositli, Lieutenant Sevenste, the Special Branch, the widdoeke, the reddoeke, self-defense, Ms. Ramasemong, bail money, legal defense work, the Clinton Administration, church people on the ground, and revengeful counter-violence.

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The Black Light of the Three Million Stars

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