Word: apartheid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...white man in a black South African township, the Rev. Nico Smith faces death threats in his battle against apartheid...
...showed him the answer. "I had to conform," he recalls. "I had to toe the line." When he finally quit, "it was almost like committing social suicide. There were people who suddenly stopped being my friends." In his lectures at Stellenbosch, Smith began challenging the church's support of apartheid. Afrikaner students accused him of preaching integration. "Teach theory, not conclusions," his superiors warned him. When Smith joined in public protests against the government's bulldozing of squatter shacks in Capetown, he was called before a church commission to justify his action. It was then that he got the call...
...perhaps the nation's biggest and longest general strike. Organized by the Congress of South African Trade Unions, a 700,000-member black umbrella group, the walkout proved that Pretoria's two- year-old state of emergency -- renewed last week for another year -- had failed to crush opponents of apartheid. The general strike, protesting proposed changes that would toughen South Africa's already restrictive labor laws, defied a February order that banned COSATU and 17 other militant groups from all political action...
...picnic on the sand. For a brief time last month, such racially mixed scenes were countenanced by law at Port Elizabeth, after the state Supreme Court struck down local city ordinances that reserved beaches like King's for whites only. But as the Pretoria government appealed the decision, apartheid once again ruled the seashore: thus last week's black and colored beachgoers were outside...
Arab prisoners are held for months without charges or trial for joining the revolt against Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. They endure searing days and chilly nights under harsh conditions. -- Stomach cancer sidelines El Salvador President Jose Napoleon Duarte as his country drifts further into crisis. -- Apartheid squabbles on the seashore in South Africa...