Word: apartheid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...question of relevance--how to capture the essence of one's country in a way meaningful to both the artist and his society--haunts South African writers today, Gordimer says. Writers who duck the visceral issue of apartheid find their work irrelevant to their society and in some larger sense to themselves. They are cut off from society, bereft...
...Koornhof is criticized by white liberals for promising much, yet delivering little--hence the nickname "Piet Promises." At the same time the right wing of his own party vociferously denounces his politics. On a recent trip to the United States, Dr. Koornhof declared that "apartheid is dying and dead." He was immediately challenged at home by Dr. Treurnicht, a staunch Afrikaaner conservative and leader of the conservative bloc in the country. Prime Minister Botha reprimanded Dr. Treurnicht in a showing of support for Koornhof's statements...
...irony in the fact that it was you, a past research officer in Bantu Affairs on the staff of Dr. Verwoerd, father of apartheid, who was to make the rather sensational "apartheid is dead" statement in the United States...
Also envisioned are changes in so-called "grand apartheid," the long-range plan to divide South Africa into a constellation of ten "independent" tribal enclaves scattered across a surrounding white territory, which includes 84% of the country. Three such homelands (Transkei, BophuthuaTswana and Venda) have already received their nominal freedom. But the scheme has been roundly criticized because most of the new states are fragmented parcels with few resources. Botha and his advisers are now redrawing the boundaries of these mininations, so that they will be contiguous and better endowed economically. If the scheme is completed, the new nations would...
...that can only lead to the white man's downfall and annihilation." Connie Mulder, former Minister of Information who was banished from the ruling party for his involvement in South Africa's recent influence-peddling scandal, defiantly announced the formation of a new opposition group, a pro-apartheid Action Front for National Priorities. One indication that Mulder's party might have a future emerged from four by-elections at week's end. Fewer than 35% of the eligible whites, one of the lowest turnouts in the past 30 years, turned up at the polls and returned...