Word: apartheid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...special security police charged with imposing Strydom's will on his country swooped down on scores of homes throughout the cities of South Africa and arrested 140 people: clergymen, trade unionists, doctors, lawyers and private citizens. The one "crime" they had in common was bitter opposition to the apartheid racist policies of the Strydom regime...
...concern of Christian opinion," and urged a cease-fire (Anthony Eden was too busy to see them). Dr. Donald Soper, fire-eating British Methodist leader who urged refusal to fight, led a protest march through London's West End. Anglican Father Trevor Huddleston, famed for his fight against apartheid in South Africa, called for even stronger condemnation by the churches: "Unless this is done, once again it will be clearly shown that principlcs of power politics count for more than justice, and that Western European civilization has forever forsaken the Christian gospel upon which it was founded...
...watered lawns. Gathering up all the petitions, a delegation led by a white woman, Miss Helen Joseph, proceeded to the Prime Minister's office. It was stopped at the main doors. "Whites only," said the uniformed doorman. "On whose authority?" demanded the militant Miss Joseph. "There are no apartheid notices posted." After ten minutes of harried consultation, an official said: "O.K. Five delegates only-black or white...
...beautifully told parable of South Africa's present condition, and proves, if nothing more, that a racial crisis-like that of adolescence-can produce the good prose of a young man from the pimples of apartheid. Racial strain seems to have made of many South African writers experts with the twisted threads of human intercourse...
...late great Mahatma Mohandas Gandhi, and editor of the South African weekly, Indian Opinion, after long illness; in Phoenix, Natal. Taken to South Africa as a child, Manilal Gandhi adopted his father's methods for his lone passive resistance struggle against the government's apartheid policy, helped focus world attention on South Africa by his deliberate lawbreaking, jail terms and fasts...