Word: antiapartheid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...abuses of apartheid. Many of those providing details are the killers themselves, eager to exchange information for the commission's promises of amnesty. Last month the commission disclosed that applications had been filed by a number of former security policemen in connection with the deaths of at least 10 antiapartheid activists, including Biko, as well as incidents of torture and assault, including the mistreatment of Jones...
...notorious acts of sabotage. First, General Johan van der Merwe confessed to giving orders in 1988 to blow up the Johannesburg headquarters of the South African Council of Churches, a blast that injured 23 people. He also admitted that he ordered his men to infiltrate a ring of antiapartheid activists and provide them with booby-trapped hand grenades, which exploded as soon as the pins were pulled. But then Van der Merwe offered an even more startling disclosure, turning to the subject of where his own orders came from. The bombing, he said, had been approved by Adriaan Vlok...
...headed by Botha. The officers said Botha also knew about a secret security cell known as the Counter Revolutionary Information Center, which drew up lists of people and places to be attacked, both inside and outside South Africa. Brigadier Jack Cronje testified that police kept files on all known antiapartheid activists. This, said Cronje, meant that anyone who took part in even the mildest form of protest, such as a consumer boycott, was under watch, and could be "eliminated...
Contrast the indifference that has greeted the long descent into autocracy by Africa's most populous and oil-rich nation with the outpouring of rage against apartheid in South Africa. Led by TransAfrica, a Washington-based lobbying group, the antiapartheid movement created extraordinary outside pressure that was a key weapon in toppling white supremacy. This was possible, says TransAfrica's leader, Randall Robinson, because South African oppression could be reduced to a simple black-and-white issue most Americans could understand. But when it comes to black-on-black oppression like Nigeria's, a kind of moral myopia sets...
Allister Sparks is South Africa's Walter Lippmann: knowing, patrician and a mite holier than thou. Like Lippmann, he is both chronicler and confidant of the alite. He was the editor of the Rand Daily Mail, a crusading antiapartheid newspaper, and wrote The Mind of South Africa, a tour-de-force history of apartheid, published in 1990. In Tomorrow Is Another Country (Hill and Wang; 254 pages; $22), which Sparks calls a sequel to that book, he has crafted a narrative of the momentous events of the past decade that culminated in the election of Nelson Mandela as the first...