Police checkpoints are set up outside the white areas to insure against illegal entry. and unannounced searches are conducted in the homes of the blacks to rout out illegal entrants. Violators are taken before "pass courts." one of which we visited. where trials are conducted in the Afrikaans language. which many blacks cannot understand. Despite the repressive pass laws against immigration of blacks from their "homelands." conditions there are so desperate that women and children have been migrating in large numbers to join their husbands and fathers. We saw the governments brutal treatment of a group of these refugees. who settled outside Capetown. in a community called Nyanga. Hundreds of women and children were forcibly arrested. removed. and repatriated to conditions of starvation in Transkei. When I brought this appalling situation to the attention of the State Department in a letter to Secretary Haig.
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