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...South African government passed a law allowing authorities to hold people in prison for 90 days without being charged. Ruth First, a liberal journalist whose husband was a major figure in the African National Congress (ANC), was the first white woman arrested under the act, and it is her story and that of her family that A World Apart tells--although the credits contain the ironic disclaimer that the film's characters are not based on any person, living or dead...
Molly's "coming of age" is at least as important to the film as its didactic purpose (it was filmed in Zambia, where the ANC has its headquarters), and it certainly fleshes out the sometimes monotonous prison scenes. Not that the viewer ever feels the film is an adaptation of Solzhenitsyn's A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch; it's never dull. But it does sparkle more when it's scrutinizing the Roth family than when it's ridiculing the Afrikaner police inspector...
...voting rights and Jews. Whereas the goal of Zionism is peace and equality with the Arabs, that of apartheid is suppression of an "inferior" race. Have the Afrikaaners been oppressive because there haven't been any legitimate Black leaders willing to negotiate with them? Is Moses comparing the ANC to the PLO or P.W. Botha to Yitzhak Shamir? Such analogies are not only false, but also absent-minded. In similar fashion, Moses writes that Europeans "colonized" the Jews on the "strip of desert," now known as Israel. Europe did not "colonize" Jews, it murdered them. The Jews "Colonized" themselves...
Mbeki emerged from his long incarceration unbowed. "The ideas for which I went to jail and for which the ANC stands," he declared, "I still embrace." The next day the government "banned" Mbeki, forbidding the South African press to quote him. Nonetheless, his release could not help fueling speculation that other jailed ANC figures might also be freed -- perhaps including Nelson Mandela, the group's guiding spirit...
...triracial parliament. So did the Azanian People's Organization (APACO), a smaller anti-apartheid group, and the Congressof South African Trad Unions (COSATU), the largestnonracial labor federation. Undoubtedly, theirresponse was colored by dislike for Buthelezi,whose strong-armed followers are notorious forbrutal attacks on Black opponents. (13) The ANC,being illegal under the current regime, was notinvited, but it is as vehemently opposed to theprocess as the UDF, COSATU or AZAPO. The mainparticipants in these 'negotiations' have beenwhite businessmen, some academics, Natalofficials, and bantustan governmentrepresentatives--hardly a representative group...