Word: apartheid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...husband went to work in a demonstration health center in Durban on the east coast of the country. These federally-operated clinics had been founded in 1945 by Henry Gluckman, a Cabinet Minister in the moderate United Party government. (The United Party is today strongly pro-apartheid...
Durban was divided into sections for whites, Indians, coloreds, and Bantus (Negroes), and Dr. Salber and her husband, also a doctor, were working in the Bantu township. Though facilities were good and the work "terribly exciting," apartheid raised moral problems. Just outside the township was a settlement of 6000 Bantu men on contract labor, brought in from all around the country. Mothers complained to Dr. Salber that their daughters were being threatened, and malnutrition was a problem among the huge colony of men. Yet to complain to the government from a medical and humanitarian point of view inevitably...
...blame on the rioters themselves. "I think," said Nixon, "the commission has put undue emphasis on the idea that we are in effect a racist society." Vice President Hubert Humphrey also had some doubts about the commission's conclusion that the U.S. was moving toward a form of apartheid. "It may be true, although it is open to some challenge," he said. "If it becomes a nightmare reality, it will be because our free society failed." Said New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller when asked about the two-society thesis: "That's an interesting way to dramatize...
...them, did not even bother to propose more economic sanctions. Those already used by Britain and the United Nations have proved ineffective in either throttling Rhodesia's economy or getting Rhodesia's whites to move gradually to black rule. By increasingly copying South Africa's tough apartheid methods, Smith's ruling Rhodesian Front stifles most political opposition and restricts most Africans to their tribal reserves and townships. Last week's defiance of Britain will certainly embolden the right-wingers in Smith's government to press the regime to declare Rhodesia a republic and thus...
FIRST, will the boycott, if it succeeds in ousting South Africa, have any effect on that country's apartheid policies? Many observers feel Johannesburg would respond to exclusion with repressive, not reform- ing, measures, Brundage reportedly holds this view as do some of the South African blacks. One black sports official there said the proposed boycott "is a slap in the face to us." South Africa's oppressed majority regards any concessions from the government as valuable, no matter how small, and does not want to lose this...