Word: antiapartheid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Winnie Mandela has long been a problem for her husband and his colleagues in the African National Congress. During his 27 years in prison she was first a heroine of the antiapartheid movement and then an imperious rival to its leadership. The movement publicly condemned her in 1989 for inflicting a ``reign of terror'' on Soweto with her gang of bodyguards; she was later convicted of kidnapping. She now could pose a political threat to the President. Voicing her angry populism, she provides leadership to thousands of young, militant township dwellers who are impatient with a deliberative political process...
Robinson also lead the protest at the SouthAfrican Embassy nearly a decade ago which "spawnedthe antiapartheid movement in the United States,"according to the pamphlet...
Frustrated with the Administration's seeming indifference, 24 U.S. unions will call for a boycott of Haitian goods this week. At the Washington headquarters of TransAfrica, a group that lobbied successfully on behalf of the antiapartheid struggle in South Africa, activist Randall Robinson began the third week of a hunger strike to protest the U.S. policy of repatriating Haitian refugees. He saw nothing to please him about Clinton's Haiti stance. "The President is responsible for what constitutes a disaster in Haiti," he said. "The longer he waits, the more people...
...over. That will be where the party does need to convey a sophisticated message, since the colored and Indian communities are not convinced that they will fare better under a black- majority government. "The coloreds have always been marginalized by the A.N.C.," says Lawrence Solomon, 26. As an antiapartheid activist in the townships around Cape Town, he dodged police bullets and tear gas. Now he is an organizer for the National Party. "We're not the 'so-called coloreds,' you know," says Solomon. "We want to keep our identity, just like everyone else...
...call for the termination of international economic sanctions. South Africa's painful 30-year isolation from the world community will finally come to an end. Anticipating that moment, A.N.C. president Nelson Mandela last week made an urgent plea for foreign firms to help repair the wreckage of the long antiapartheid struggle. "We need massive investment," he told a group of South African businessmen in Cape Town. Lifting sanctions, Mandela said, would be "an important psychological step" toward renewal...