Word: apartheid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hall in Johannesburg last week and made an unprecedented appeal. His basic goal was unstated but well understood by his audience of 250 English-speaking businessmen, who have long dominated South Africa's economic life. Botha outlined a new policy that would end the harsher restrictions of apartheid, South Africa's all-encompassing system of racial laws, and provide fresh economic opportunities by allowing corporations to employ the country's blacks in heretofore restricted jobs. Political power, of course, would be left firmly in white hands. At the end of his daylong summit with the business leaders...
Botha's reforms are motivated by a conviction that majority-rule settlements in Namibia and Zimbabwe Rhodesia will present South Africa with an "adapt or die" situation. Urged by top military advisers, he has ordered a sweeping review of the restrictive laws, known as "petty apartheid," in an attempt to stave off an overwhelming onslaught from black African nations combined with mass rebellion by the country's 20 million blacks. To the howls of hard-line Afrikaners, the Prime Minister has proposed the "improvement" of laws prohibiting interracial sex and marriage. In order to create new jobs...
...real nuke or a deceptive dud? For years South Africa's many enemies, as well as its few friends, have speculated about the possibility that Pretoria's white apartheid regime might secretly be developing nuclear weapons. South Africa not only has the required technical expertise, but also possesses almost one-fifth of the world's known uranium deposits...
CAMBRIDGE VOTERS will consider six non-binding referendum questions tomorrow. Perhaps the most important of these is Question 5, which would ask the city not to invest in financial institutions doing business in South Africa. Citizens should discourage any support of apartheid practices, however indirect...
...Cambridge Anti-Apartheid Coalition, whose members include the Southern Africa Solidarity Committee (SASC), the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee, and the Friends Services Committee, among others, has worked since early September to gain support for Question...