SOUTH AFRICA FAMILY TROUBLES FAMILY DAY IN SOUTH AFRICA IS AN EXPANDED 
VERSION OF MOTHER'S OR FATHER'S DAY A TIME FOR ALL KINFOLK 
TO GET TOGETHER . SOUTH AFRICA'S WHITES AND BLACKS LAST WEEK 
CELEBRATED THE HOLIDAY IN IRONICALLY CONTRASTING WAYS . WHILE WHITES PICNICKED 
OR FROLICKED ON BEACHES, THOUSANDS OF BLACKS MOURNED THE ABSENCE OF 
RELATIVES WHO WERE EITHER BANISHED OR BEHIND BARS . UNDER THE 
COUNTRY'S MAZE OF WHITE-SUPREMACIST APARTHEID RULES, NON-WHITES MAY BE BANISHED FROM 
URBAN AREAS TO DISTANT VILLAGES FOR A VARIETY OF CAUSES . 
EXAMPLE : WORKERS WHO HAVE BEEN IN A CITY FOR 20 
YEARS OR MORE MAY BE SENT BACK HOME AT ONCE IF 
THEY LOSE THEIR JOB . OTHERS, AFTER A LIFETIME'S RESIDENCE IN 
SOUTH AFRICA, FIND THEIR WIVES " ENDORSED OUT " UNDER THE 
NEW RESTRICTIONS IF THE WOMEN WERE BORN OUTSIDE SOUTH AFRICA . 
IN WESTERN CAPE PROVINCE ALONE, 500 MEN AND WOMEN ARE NOW 
BANISHED MONTHLY . EVEN WORSE IS THE PLIGHT OF SOME 5,800 
NONWHITES JAILED IN RECENT MONTHS AS PART OF THE GOVERNMENT'S ANTISABOTAGE 
DRIVE, WHICH INCREASED SOUTH AFRICA'S PRISON POPULATION TO A RECORD OF 
SOME 67,700 (OUT OF A TOTAL POPULATION OF 15 MILLION) . 
BREAD & WATER . THIS GRIM ASPECT OF THE HOLIDAY WAS 
BITTERLY MARKED BY THE BLACK SASH ORGANIZATION, A HANDFUL OF COURAGEOUS 
WHITE MATRONS, WHO OPPOSE APARTHEID . SAID THEIR SPOKESMAN : " 
FAMILY DAY BECOMES A FARCE WHEN SO MANY OF OUR AFRICAN 
FAMILIES ARE DISRUPTED . " WEARING THEIR CUSTOMARY BLACK SASHES, MEMBERS 
OF THE GROUP WENT INTO RETREAT, SAT IN BARE ROOMS ON 
HARD CHAIRS FOR 24 HOURS OF COMPLETE SILENCE, EATING ONLY BREAD 
AND WATER . THE LEADERS OF AFRICA'S NEW BLACK NATIONS OBSERVED 
FAMILY DAY IN THEIR OWN MANNER, BY TRYING TO EXPEL SOUTH 
AFRICA FROM WHAT IS STILL OCCASIONALLY KNOWN AS THE FAMILY OF 
NATIONS . LATER THIS MONTH, BLACK LEADERS WILL PROPOSE SANCTIONS AGAINST 
SOUTH AFRICA, AND POSSIBLY ITS EXPULSION FROM THE U.N . THE 
U.S., WHILE VIOLENTLY DISAPPROVING OF APARTHEID, WILL PROBABLY ABSTAIN IN ANY 
VOTE ON THE GROUNDS THAT EXPELLING ALL COUNTRIES WHOSE DOMESTIC POLICIES 
ARE REPREHENSIBLE COULD PRETTY QUICKLY DESTROY THE U.N . " TOP 
POLECAT . " NOT OVERLY CONCERNED WHETHER THEY ARE IN OR 
OUT OF THE CLUB, SOUTH AFRICA'S LEADERS SIMPLY WENT ON BUYING 
MODERN WEAPONS, INCLUDING FRENCH JET FIGHTERS, TO CRUSH ANY POSSIBLE BLACK 
REBELLION (THIS YEAR SOUTH AFRICA'S DEFENSE BUDGET WILL REACH A RECORD 
HIGH OF $180 MILLION) . REPORTING ON " SABOTAGE SCHOOLS " 
IN NEIGHBORING BLACK COUNTRIES, JUSTICE MINISTER VORSTER SAID : " WE 
ARE DEALING WITH STUPID PEOPLE WHO ARE POWER-DRUNK . BUT WE 
ARE READY FOR WHATEVER THEY ARE PLANNING AGAINST SOUTH AFRICA . 
" SAID AFRIKAANER STUDENT LEADER TERTIUS DELPORT, REFERRING TO THE COUNTRY'S 
GROWING INTERNATIONAL ISOLATION : " THE WHITE SOUTH AFRICAN HAS BECOME 
THE POLECAT OF THE WORLD . / A COLLOQUIALISM POSSIBLY GROWING 
OUT OF THE ELABORATE PAPERWORK INVOLVED IN SOUTH AFRICA'S RIGID CONTROL 
OF BLACKS . 