Word: africanization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...names may change, but the issue in South African elections is always dismayingly the same-swart gevaar (black danger), wit baaskap (white bossdom), or just plain apartheid. Last week, when South Africa's 1.7 million white voters went to the polls, there was no new term for Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd's racism, but both major parties were claiming to be the whitest of the white. So extremist have the nation's politics become, in fact, that Segregationist Verwoerd was even accused of being soft on blacks...
Only hint that a few South African whites were at all disturbed by apartheid came in the narrow victory of the Progressive Party's perky Mrs. Helen Suzman, who in the past five years has been the only voice of dissent in the South African Parliament. Supported by all major English-language papers and by gold-and-diamond Magnate Harry Oppenheimer, Mrs. Suzman carried her wealthy Johannesburg district by a bare 711 votes...
...Broadway WAIT A MINIM! is a South African musical revue that is light of heart, flip of wit, and full of such wondrously exotic instru ments as the mbira, timbila and kalimba...
...went to Washington, he began entertaining foreign visitors at informal songfests, usually in duet with his petite, chestnut-haired wife. An accomplished pianist and harpsichordist, Sylvia Symington has worked as a volunteer music teacher to Washington slum children, in 1960 organized a group of women to help wives of African diplomats overcome their awe of bustling Washington. Proficient in French, she even accompanied her wards to the dentist's office to relay such instructions as "Ouvrez la bouche, s'il vous plait...
...letter explains that the College Young Democratic Clubs of America condemned South African racism. Support the U.N.'s boycott measures to "put economic pressures on the Republic of South Africa in order to end its mockery of human decency...