Arriving in South Africa from West Africa it was evident that an altogether different vibe was in operation. South Africa had instituted Apartheid in 1948 and it effects were fully in evidence in 1968. Coming from the segregated airport the driver murmured the most disgusting racial epithets about Black African passerby on the street. I'd never heard anything like it anywhere and it was truly shocking. Yet that was years before economic sanctions were applied to South Africa. American cars, manufactured in South Africa with right-hand drive, were the norm and a large billboard proclaimed "Alles is Beter mit Groot Groot Coke" in Afrikaans. Johannesburg was a modern city by then, but with several differences, notably Apartheid. There was no television broadcasting, only radio, television would have been dependent on external sources of programming. A department
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