Word: anti-apartheid
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...There are really only two sides now in South Africa," Pogrund says, "the White Afrikaaner Nationalist regime and the black nationalist movement. Everyone else is in the middle--the Coloureds, the Indians, the anti-apartheid whites--and they have to run to one camp or the other and hope they get protection. South African liberals are in despair--there is no place for them any more...
...investments that support them. In Zimbabwe, (the black nationalists' name for Rhodesia), Namimbia, and South Africa, violence against black people has been a daily event for decades and ignored by the U. S. It is still ignored today. Kissinger uses the word "violence" in reference mainly to anti-apartheid guerillas, not to the white regimes' internal security police. Black demonstrators have been shot down by South African police during Kissinger's meetings with Vorster, but there has been a "gentlemen's agreement" to avoid the subjects of repression and South African apartheid in their talks...
...National Party garnered a majority of the ballots; its 55.1% gave it 122 legislators-a gain of four-in an expanded 171-seat house. The official opposition United Party, which is only slightly to the left of the Nationals, dropped from 46 to 41 seats. The tiny, militantly anti-apartheid Progressive Party was the surprising big winner with five new seats, for a total...
...into the paths of Christianity and be ensured a level of living which was not only infinitely superior to that left behind in Africa, but even greater than that enjoyed by contemporary Irishmen. Similarly, those of us who have lived in Britain where there is an active anti-apartheid movement have frequently heard the standard response of South African investors that South African Blacks are the best fed, best clothed and best educated native Africans south of the Sahara. All of which may be perfectly true, but perfectly irrelevant...
...British subject, the stocky dean has long been an outspoken opponent of the government's racial policies. He had been convicted of supporting violent revolution and of distributing funds for an illegal anti-apartheid organization. Last week, in a 226-page judgment, three appellate judges at Bloemfontein ruled that the mere expression of antigovernment views, "even in somewhat intemperate terms," could not be equated with terrorism. The verdict, as one clergyman put it, was a triumph "not only for the church but for the judiciary...