Word: apartheid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week South Africa fought a bitter and unsuccessful campaign against renewing the mandate of a three-man U.N. commission which has been investigating apartheid (racial segregation). When the U.N.'s Political Committee voted, 37 to 7 (with 13 abstentions), to prolong the commission's life, South Africa's U.N. Delegate W. C. du Plessis abruptly left the building and began a boycott which, he said, will last at least as long as the present U.N. session...
...government of Prime Minister Johannes Strydom, devout member of the Dutch Reformed Church, preaches apartheid in the name of Christianity, but South Africa's Anglican and Roman Catholic clergy have taken a firm stand against government policy. More than anyone else, one man symbolized this opposition. He went into the slums to comfort black Africans hounded by the police. He threatened to close down his mission school for Africans rather than let the government impose a second-class curriculum. He became apartheid's most formidable adversary. Last week the Rev. Trevor Huddleston, provincial of the Anglican Community...
Delighted to be rid of him at last, the Nationalist government permitted Trevor Huddleston to preach his last major sermon over a national broadcasting hookup, but warned him not to discuss politics. He delivered a strong indictment of the government, and called apartheid "blasphemy" and "refusal of God's plan and purpose." That was not politics, he later told angry government officials, but simple Christianity...
Anglicans in South Africa who hope to maintain a united front on moral issues such as apartheid had another problem last week: a squabble between the Union's two Anglican church bodies. When the Church of the Province of South Africa was established in 1870 as the official Anglican Church, a small group of dissatisfied Anglicans with evangelical leanings continued separately, calling themselves the Church of England in South Africa. For more than 70 years the smaller church has wanted a bishop of its own, but the regular Anglican Church refused to provide one. Last August the dissidents finally...
...African citizens, as well as headquarters of some 50 organizations. Although the raids were made under the Suppression of Communism Act, their real purpose was betrayed by the identities of the searched. The majority, like Father Huddleston, were simply open and avowed opponents of Prime Minister Strydom's apartheid policy, which seeks to establish absolute white supremacy in a country where whites are outnumbered four to one. Although the police committed many of the stupidities made familiar in other mass raids (seized from private libraries as possible evidence: Negley Parson's The Way of a Transgressor; Dostoevsky...