European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 01, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Movement pm South Africa f in Johanne Tburg t White suburbs the Specter of Black township violence and political uncertainty it starting to cast i Hadout Over a Way of life. Chanting South africans photo below March in Midtown Johannesburg after an anti apartheid rally. H York times oho to m on the Street he meets a Black Man he knows and spends a minute or two in casual jest and camaraderie. Handshakes and Friendship. Was the Black Man then. Not one of those beyond the firelight of sure he was the Man says he s the future. We re outnumbered. So the show of Friendship was by feigned not at All the Man says. I like the  a passing Friendship May thus be possible. In collective racial terms things Are More Complex. The. N contradictions linger unresolved. A. South Africa Whit population numbers about a a 4.5 million 2.8 million of them drawn from the i a afrikaner descendants of dutch settlers whose Story v it began when Jan Van a Leebeck landed in the Cape in " f april 1652. The rest Are generally classified As English speakers but they Are More of a Motley collection of. Old families and recent immigrants portuguese and 7 c britons and greeks among them. I talk of change and news of the unrest that has claimed at least 635 lives in almost a year takes fir them differently but some fears predominantly of a swamping by Blacks seem Universal. The irony � however is that it is a fear that thrives on ignorance. The apprehension of captives in a luxurious  the scene for example is repeated a thous. Each weekend the sunday Barbecue that sends smoke Curling Over steaks and sausage and marinated � Chicken in gardens still Pale from Winter. At one Home recently six couples in their 30s. Peop eol1985 no great wealth but not poor either gathered and talked. The women All six of them vouchsafed that they had never visited Soweto Johannesburg s huge sprawl of blackness just a few Miles Distant and neither did they wish to. So their premises seemed secondhand. Black violence has not spilled into White areas so Lar and White perceptions of it come largely from an officially controlled broadcasting system that presents the violence As barbarism by Blacks rather than protest against White official violence. Well we be thought of  one of he women said. Why not what s going to happen we Don t  she gestured at Small child. Hell have to go into the army if we stay and who s he going to fight 8ul, she continued it was not so simple. Look at  she said. To can t afford to go. Just to leave everything and Start Over. My husband could t get a Job in England. And wherever we went we still would t have the same Standard of  others younger Whites seem readier to see other lives. Australia is one place they talk about. Canada is another. In Central Johannesburg suddenly businesses have sprung up. Dealing in emigration. One of them according to the weekly mail newspaper had its telephones installed this month and. Within six Days recorded 171 inquiries by anxious Whites seeking a new life in Canada. Immigration into South Africa eased in the first four months of this year Down rom 10.775 the year before to 7,595. But that was before a slate of emergency was proclaimed on july 21. Before Many whiles had realized that the violence unlike earlier spasms was not easing. The perception of Calm would to a first time visitor seeing Only the White areas persist. Ii you just live Here in the Northern Helen Suzman. A longtime anti Apar Meid campaigner and White opposition legislator you would not learn of what s happening in inn townships / in South Africa she said in in interview the Nilk and the newspapers Are still doling we and whiles Are cocooned. By the official television irom the realities of their land. Television audiences in the United states and Britain. So Taid have a More realistic picture of things than soil Fly africans do. Provident Ronald Reagan s remarks last week that the 3outh african government of president Pieler w. In a is a reformist administration and has made fun Stantial changes toward ending segregation have Flawn Sharp criticism trom anti apartheid activists Audrey Colemen is a Whita Active test from the Liberal end of South Africa s spectrum who has cause to be resentful of the while authorities because her son Neil is one of four Whites detained under the slate of emergency. After four weeks she says he is still detained for reasons that elude her. The other night at St. George s Church in the wealthy suburb of Park own she said she was present Al a Public meeting and 100 Whites showed up to talk about their future. The majority of  Colema said. Actually Don i want to know what is happening in the Black townships and so shelter behind the state of emergency but their fears were tangible. They re scared she said so at the meeting there had been questions. They said things like do you want South Africa to become like the rest of Africa " she said. They said. Look Al Zimbabwe " she said. What then was the White image of the rest of Africa poor  Coleman said and that no with Anding the fact thai one Man at the meeting said he had been to Zimbabwe recent in and. As a White did not feel scared at All. Zimbabwe i teen by Many South african Whites As an exper nent gone wrong a Model of what would happen if majority Rule came Here and Blacks took Power to Lead the nation toward one party Rule As prime minister Robert Mugabe is doing in Zimbabwe. Their fear is being swamped by the Black people Coleman said. And he usual question is. What s going to happen to us the comparison with other parts of Africa often seems spurious. In the country then called Rhodesia and now Zimbabwe for instance to be a third generation settler was to belong to a kind of aristocracy. Many More were immigrants who arrived to escape the postwar chills of Britain in the 19