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iM-nvrir -r rirVaMMnej i iam tontd Maria, Tlmo. Friday, April 11, 1U 7 Auu'uOC The desperate search for a better life farm, and Masilela may be forced off the land. "I perfer to die here," he told Jeffery. "I cannot start i over." Nor are the difficulties limited to blacks. Rasmus Erasmus Is a sixth-generation Afrikaner farmer.

Five of his farms, totaling more than 10,000 acres, have been taken i by forced sales and marked for incorporation Into KwaNdebele. He and his wife, Lucy, have been left with only the home farm of some i 2,000 acres; a giant South African corporation has offered them mil-. lions of rand for it "We just can't accept It because 1 in our graveyards we've got three generations of Erasmuses and Nde-' bele burled there," Mrs. Erasmus told Jeffery. Such occasional resistance, how-, ever, isn't hampering commercial development In parts of KwaNde- bele.

Three kilometers down the road from Ekangala, a new town- ship with huge anticipated growth, the factories of Ekandustria rise on an empty landscape. Despite severe economic reces- sion in South Africa, the KwaNde- bele National Development Corp. has brought 35 industries to Ekan- dustria, has another 19 about to move in, and is building 22 facto- 4 ries on speculation. Training is only one part of the nation's central dilemma: How to cope with apartheid, the offical policy of racial separation? "KwaNdebele's answer for the moment is to keep negotiating, press for concessions, for more land, more programs, more funds, freer status," Jeffery writes. "It is there on the ground between agreeing to independence in princi- nip nnH norAAincr In final tart National Geographic News Service WASHINGTON For the past few years, Mtazl Mtswenl has lived in a plastered mud brick house without plumbing, water or electricity.

In Tweefontein a settlement in the KwaNdebele "homeland" of South Africa. Mrs. Mtswenl, a widowed grandmother, has no choice. She is one of the Ndebele people, whose ancestors migrated into what is now South Africa about A.D. 300 and established themselves near modern Johannesburg about 1500.

Mrs. Mtsweni lived on white-owned farms for 50 years. When her husband died, the landowner told her to go back to her homeland. South Africa authorities denied her request to go live with a son in Witbank. Tweefontein is a new community of hundreds of families in KwaNdebele, occupying some acres its boundaries are not yet final of semi-desert northeast of Pretoria in the Transvaal, South Africa's nothernmost province.

Most of the relocated families have made crude houses of packing crates and corrugated sheet metal. KwaNdebele is one of South Afrl-" ca's 10 tribal homelands with nominal independence and self-government's "grand apartheid" scheme to isolate blacks in "independent" states. Four of the homelands have been granted "independence," but they are recognized only by South Africa. KwaNdebele has accepted independence only in principle, but its leaders plan to accept South Africa's offer of independence this year. Mtazi Mtsweni is one of at least 300,000, and perhaps 500,000, residents of KwaNdebele, a makeshift territory organized in the late 1970s, put together mostly from parts of other homelands and land appropriated from white farmers.

About 20 percent of the Ndebele now dwell in their new "homeland," the rest absorbed by the people to the north, or scattered countrywide. About half the population is Ndebele; the rest are from the Northern Sotho, Swazi, and other tribes. Mrs. Mtsweni and her fellow Ndebele are watching, their traditions disappear. She cannot afford the brilliantly colored, abstract wall paint-ing that distinguishes Ndebele architecture.

Her house has a small metal roof, and her government pension is too small to permit her to buy a traditional thatch. On a more personal level, Mrs. Mtsweni and many other Ndebele married women no longer wear the customary iindzila, or stacked cop- YOUNG African matron of the Ndebele people National Geographic Society photo Sport Aid for Africa UNITED NATIONS (UPI) Live Aid creator Bob Geldof and the U.N. Children's Fund have unveiled plans lor "Sport Aid," 6-mlle run in cities worldwide to raise millions of dollars for famine-stricken Africa. "The Race Against Time," also called Sport Aid, will be run by millions of people Including international celebrities In more than 40 cities and thousands of towns around the world, Geldof told a news conference Thursday.

He billed the race as the world's "biggest international sport event," Dozens of international sports celebrities have pledged to participate including football star William "The Refrigerator" Perry of the Super Bowl-champion Chicago Bears, U.S. Olympic gymnastic champion Mary Lou Retton, German tennis player Boris Becker, British runner Sebastian Roe, and American runner Mary Proceeds of the events, including money from the sale of Sport Aid T-shirts, will be given to relief and development programs in Africa. "Africa is almost in a state of terminal crisis," Geldof said. UNICEF last week appealed to the international community for $100 million to carry on its program in 16 African countries, 13 of which are still suffering the effects of drought. Geldof successfully organized the Live Aid marathon concerts held simultaneously in London and Philadelphia last year.

They netted about $50 million for African famine relief efforts. Irish teacher missing in Beirut BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) An Irishman who teaches at the American University of Beirut was reported missing today in Beirut's militia-ruled western sector, a university spokesman said. There were fears that the teacher, Brian Keenan, had been abducted. He is the fourth Western teacher to disappear in west Beirut since March 28. Keenan, who teaches English at the university, failed to arrive at the seaside campus for' classes today, said university spokesman Radwan Mawlawi.

Two Britons, political science professor Leigh Douglas, 34, and International Language Center director Philip Padfield, 40, disappeared March 28. There has been no claim of responsibility for their disappearance. Rome seeks to move Big Mac ROME (UPI) Rome officials, resisting the spread of fast-food establishments in the Eternal City, are asking McDonald's to move the largest of its 9,000 restaurants worldwide away from the historic Spanish Steps. City Councilman Sandro Natalini told a news conference Thursday he met with officials of the U.S. hamburger chain "to sound out every available eventuality on moving the establishment to a different zone." Their reaction, he said, was "cautiously positive." In a private session Wednesday night, the City Council proposed relocating McDonald's newly opened restaurant because it is causing littering and crowd security problems near the 18th-century Spanish Steps.

But Mayor Nicola Signorello said the city cannot legally close the 450-seat restaurant without McDonald's permission. Rome's new fast-food emporium the largest of the nearly 9,000 McDonald's restaurants in 41 countries has attracted customers by the thousands, many of them young people on motorcycles, since it opened March 20 behind bullet-proof glass. The crowds spill over into Piazza di Spagna, Via Condotti and adjacent streets where most of Rome's most expensive shops are located. McDonald's, the eighth fast-food restaurant to open in the center of Rome in recent months, took over the premises of Rugantino, a landmark restaurant and bar. Martin roars toward Fiji isles SUVA, Fiji (UPI) The Fiji islands Friday braced for Tropical Storm Martin, roaring toward the South Pacific country with 65-mph winds.

Landfall was expected within 24 hours. At midday Friday, Martin was located 360 miles northwest of the island of Nadi, and forecasters said the storm was expected to hit land within a day. "It's moving southeast at 15 knots (about 17 mph), but it's likely to quicken. We don't know yet whether it will hit Viti Levu, the main island," a Weather Bureau spokesman said. The Weather Bureau said the storm, the result of the second depression to hit Fiji in a day, was expected to pass near the Yasawa Islands one of Fiji's major tourist centers.

The Yasawa Island group, many of them low-lying, are situated to the west of Viti Levu. Weather reports from Nadi, where the country's international airport is located, said the center of the cyclone was gusting winds up to 65 mph. The island ahready was knee-deep in water from torrential rains Thursday. ing rights and cropland. Although the white landowners promised Masilela that he could stay "until doomsday," the South -o-- 1 where the KwaNdebele strategy is i African government is buying the being played out.

PLENTY OF CHEAP TO GO AROUND per rings, on their ankles, arms and neck. "My son's grandchildren will not know how their elders lived," said the husband of Nomapitoli Thubana when her rings were removed to make her job in the city easier. The Thubanas are commuters. Each day, blue buses roll out of KwaNdebele, carrying 17,000 people about 16 percent of its work force to work in Pretoria and surrounding communities. Some who live in the far reaches of KwaNdebele must line up in the dark at 2 a.m.

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