Word: anti-apartheid
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Enter South African Archbishop Desmond M. Tutu--anti-apartheid leader and newly elected member of the Board...
South African President F.W. de Klerk plunged his country into chaos a week ago Friday by announcing the legalization of Black opposition groups, the imminent release of African National Congress (ANC) leader Nelson R. Mandela and the lifting of restrictions on anti-apartheid organizations...
...urged their fellow students to boycott products of the Coca-Cola Company, because Coca-Cola still has investments in South Africa. But when a reporter went to the Charles Hotel this week to interview South African Archbishop Desmond M. Tutu--the Nobel Peace Prize winner and leader of the anti-apartheid movement--Tutu was serving Coke...
...many, the release of Mandela is meant to signal the beginning of the end of apartheid. Now anything less than an agreement between white and black about the shape of the future will be a bitter disappointment. De Klerk knows this, and he must find some middle path that will satisfy both sides. Yet it must be more than apartheid with a human face. "His mandate is somehow to maintain white supremacy without alienating the black majority," says Alan Morris, an anti-apartheid activist and sociology lecturer at the University of the Witwatersrand. "How he does that, no one knows...
...seems to indicate that he has accepted the job of wresting tangible results from this moment of opportunity. For three years Mandela has held periodic meetings with a team of government officials, and since November he has had sessions with Cabinet ministers as well as almost daily talks with anti-apartheid leaders to try to find a common meeting ground. The 71-year-old prisoner, still tall and distinguished looking, his smooth face barely lined, his black hair just flecked with gray, greets each visitor with a smiling embrace...