Word: antiapartheid
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Just miles from the airport, an embarrassing standoff was unfolding between the government and three antiapartheid leaders who escaped from custody earlier in the week. The three, who were being held without trial under South Africa's 27-month-old state-of-emergency laws, slipped away from guards while receiving physical therapy at Johannesburg Hospital. After making their way across the city, they took refuge in the U.S. consulate on the eleventh floor of the bustling Kine Center, a popular shopping and office complex...
...night Smith heard the roar of cars racing past his house, the squeal of tires, then the rattle of gunfire and an explosion. Sometime later the phone rang, and the black woman on the line sounded on the edge of hysteria. She and her husband were known as antiapartheid activists. Their house had just been fire-bombed, and two of her sister's children had been badly burned...
...time when the government holds an estimated 3,000 antiapartheid activists in detention, seaside segregation represents but a small facet of local life. Nonetheless, government efforts in support of whites-only bathing are generating skepticism about President Botha's proclaimed intentions to reform the political system. Editorialized the Johannesburg Sunday Star: "It is almost impossible for the most moderate black, colored and Indian leaders to offer their services in seeking a negotiated constitution when Mr. Botha's men are fighting to keep them and those whom they lead off the beaches, off white land, out of white group areas...
...done swiftly and professionally. Dulcie September, 52, the Paris representative of the antiapartheid African National Congress, was about to turn the key to her office in a run-down building in central Paris last week when an assassin stepped up behind her and squeezed off six shots from a .22- cal. pistol equipped with a silencer. Several minutes later, a worker from a neighboring office found her lying in a pool of blood, dead of bullet wounds to the head. There were no witnesses, and because of the silencer, nobody even heard the gunshots...
South African Foreign Minister Roelof ("Pik") Botha responded with something less than an outright denial of Pretoria's complicity, saying merely, "The South African government cannot be held responsible for this deed." He suggested, without offering any proof, that "serious arguments" among antiapartheid organizations may have led to September's killing. Supporters of the nonracial A.N.C. have indeed been caught up in deadly battles with other political groups, including the blacks-only Azanian People's Organization and the Zulu-based Inkatha organization. Factional disputes also exist inside the A.N.C. French police, however, disclosed no evidence linking any group, of whatever...