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University Daily Kansan
Nation/World
Thursday, Sept. 5, 1985
S. African whites feel effects of blacks' protests Rich flee continued unrest Exiled guerrillas call on blacks to take rebellion to white cities
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Emigration consultants said yesterday that business was booming among whites alarmed by black unrest and worried about how long South Africa's struggling economy would be able to support their lavish lifestyles.
Thousands of rich whites have stockpiled money abroad for years as a hedge against a future upheaval, and the outflow of capital has accelerated in the recent months of widespread rioting.
Reserve Bank figures show that over $150 million in private investments left the country between May
Before the latest convulsion in racial violence, which has taken more than 670 lives in the last year, government figures indicated that emigration was up by 850 in the first five months of the year. Immigration, another barometer of confidence, slumped from almost 13,000 to 9,500 in the same period.
"I've had a long time to moll over a difficult decision, but in the end it came down to a gut feeling," wrote sports journalist Greg Struthers about his plan to emigrate to Australia.
"I will leave the country of my birth thinking about what might have been had the South African government put the interests of the entire nation ahead of those of the white minority," he said.
A spokesman for a California-based emigration service that opened its first overseas office in South Africa in June said that people were getting nervous about the situation and were beginning to make inquiries about leaving.
A second emigration advisory service reported more than 100 inquiries in four days; while another firm specializing in moves to Canada logged 171 calls in six days.
United Press International
NAIROBI, Kenya — The anti-apartheid African National Congress guerrilla group said Tuesday that South African whites were ignorant of the riots sweeping the country and called on blacks to move the battleground into white communities.
Radio Freedom, the voice of the ANC guerrillas broadcasting from Ethiopia, said in a commentary Tuesday night that South Africa's white minority population had heard very little of yearlong fighting in
black townships.
It said the white-minority government in Pretoria maintained control of news and was attempting to avoid alarming the white community by spreading propaganda that the situation in the country was normal.
"All these months, the battlefield has been confined to the areas where we, the oppressed black people, live safely — far away from the white areas of the country." Radio Freedom said.
"Throughout this period, the majority of the white population have
learned of the bitter confrontation only through their television screens while sipping their drinks comfortably in their cozy homes.
"The whites of this country now have to be rudely awakened from the dreamland that they have closed themselves into.
"We have now to take the battle right into their homes, into their kitchens and bedrooms. To them business still continues as usual, and things are still normal as long as Botha (South African President Pieter Botha) says so.
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