SOUTH AFRICA UNHAPPY APART PRIME MINISTER HENDRIK VERWOERD'S GRANDIOSE SCHEME TO TRANSPLANT 
MOST OF SOUTH AFRICA'S 11 MILLION NATIVES INTO NINE BACK-COUNTRY, ALL-BLACK 
BANTUSTANS WAS SUPPOSED TO PUT AN END TO THE COUNTRY'S RACIAL 
UNREST . INSTEAD, IT HAS ONLY INCREASED THE DANGEROUS TENSION BETWEEN 
BLACK AND WHITE . THE FIRST BANTUSTAN ON VERWOERD'S LIST WAS 
THE TRANSKEI, A DENMARK-SIZE (16,500 SQ . MI.) AREA OF ERODED 
FARM LAND ON THE INDIAN OCEAN . NOBODY KNOWS THE TROUBLES 
IT HAS SEEN . EVER SINCE AFRICANS WENT ON A RAMPAGE 
THERE MORE THAN TWO YEARS AGO, MURDERING THE GOVERNMENT'S HANDPICKED TRIBAL 
CHIEFS AND SETTING FIRE TO ENTIRE VILLAGES, MOBILE POLICE PATROLS ARMED 
WITH STEN GUNS, ARMORED CARS, AND HELICOPTER SPOTTER PLANES HAVE HAD 
TO STAY ON DUTY IN PARTS OF THE TRANSKEI . FORTNIGHT 
AGO, A WHITE FAMILY OF FOUR WERE CAPRICIOUSLY HACKED TO DEATH 
WITH PANGAS AS THEY STUMBLED DOWN THE STEPS OF THEIR BURNING 
TRAILER, SET AFIRE WHILE PARKED ON A ROAD ONLY 30 MILES 
FROM THE TRANSKEI'S CAPITAL OF UMTATA . LAST WEEK, AS THE 
PARLIAMENT IN CAPE TOWN PREPARED TO DEBATE A BILL LEGALLY ESTABLISHING 
THE TRANSKEI BANTUSTAN CERTAIN TO PASS THE NATIONALIST PARTY-CONTROLLED LEGISLATURE, PROBABLY 
BY JUNE THERE WAS MORE TROUBLE . THE GOVERNMENT PLANS TO 
MAKE KAIZER MATANZIMA, A MISSION-EDUCATED TEMBU CHIEF, THE CHIEF MINISTER OF 
THE NEW TRANSKEI GOVERNMENT . THE BODYGUARD OF A HEADMAN SERVING 
MATANZIMA GOT INTO A TRIBAL FIGHT WITH 40 WARRIORS ARMED WITH 
SPEARS AND AXES . MATANZIMA QUICKLY MUSTERED 500 MEN TO CRUSH 
THE REVOLT, AND SOUTH AFRICAN POLICE STOOD BY WITH A TRUCKLOAD 
OF MEN AND A HELICOPTER . THE REBELS FLED INTO THE 
HILLS . POLICE BLAMED THE TRAILER MURDERS AND THE TRIBAL OUTBREAK 
ON THE INCREASING INFLUENCE OF POQO (PRONOUNCED PAW-KAW), AN AFRICAN TERRORIST 
SOCIETY WHOSE MEMBERS, LIKE KENYA'S NOTORIOUS MAU MAU, TAKE SECRET OATHS 
AND ARE HEAVILY INFLUENCED BY WITCH DOCTORS . POQO FANATICS RECENTLY 
TRIED TO ASSASSINATE MATANZIMA BECAUSE HE FRANKLY FAVORS APARTHEID AS " 
THE BEST SOLUTION " FOR SOUTH AFRICA'S RACIAL TROUBLES . MATANZIMA'S 
POWERS TO GOVERN THE TRANSKEI'S 1,400,000 BLACKS, 15,000 TO 20,000 WHITES, 
AND 14,000 COLOREDS WILL BE STRICTLY LIMITED . ALL MEASURES PASSED 
BY THE LOCAL LEGISLATURE OF TRIBAL CHIEFS AND ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES ARE 
SUBJECT TO VETO BY THE CENTRAL GOVERNMENT ; CAPE TOWN STILL 
WILL CONTROL JUSTICE AND INTERNAL SECURITY . MONEY TO IMPROVE THE 
BARREN REGION WILL BE LACKING . VERWOERD HAS PROMISED AN ANNUAL 
BUDGET SUBSIDY OF $30 MILLION, BUT THIS FALLS FAR SHORT OF 
MEETING THE NEED FOR HOUSING, SCHOOLS, LAND RECLAMATION, ESTABLISHING NEW INDUSTRY 
. IN ADDITION, MATANZIMA FACES POWERFUL POLITICAL OPPOSITION FROM ANOTHER TEMBU 
CHIEF, SABATA DALINDYEBO, WHO DOES NOT LIKE THE BANTUSTAN IDEA AT 
ALL . DALINDYEBO DEMANDS MULTIRACIAL POLITICAL RULE " IN WHICH THE 
COLOR OF A MAN'S SKIN PLAYS NO PART IN HIS CIVIL 
RIGHTS . BY ACCEPTING SELF-GOVERNMENT, " HE WARNS, " WE FEAR 
WE WILL BE ENCLOSING OURSELVES IN A PIGSTY . 