Word: apartheid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...basic issues as the pace of change and who will speak for the black majority. The clergymen handed De Klerk a 13-point agenda for reform demanding that the government lift the state of emergency and free the hundreds of remaining political prisoners, and then within six months abolish apartheid laws and begin negotiations on a new South African constitution with the A.N.C. "If we were to get that kind of commitment," Tutu said, "we would be ready to say to our friends, 'Put your sanctions programs on hold...
...Robert P. Wolff '54, head of the prodivestment Harvard-Radcliffe Alumni Against Apartheid, on a meeting this week with Harvard Alumni Association officials, where a "truce" was called on acrimonious campaigns for the Board of Overseers...
...voteless 26 million blacks can be forgiven for being skeptical. The reform policies of De Klerk's predecessor, P.W. Botha, unleashed disappointment and nearly three years of violent unrest before grinding to a halt. But one of the most vocal critics of De Klerk's reluctance to abolish apartheid is a prominent Afrikaner who sat only a few feet behind him on inauguration day last month: his elder brother Willem...
...wild-eyed liberal by the standards of his family and its Dutch settler forebears, Willem de Klerk publicly -- and constantly -- urges that apartheid be replaced by black majority rule. A former Dutch Reformed pastor and editor who now teaches journalism at Rand Afrikaans University, he helped establish the liberal opposition Democratic Party in April. Although his brother's career was at stake, Willem voted for the Democrats in September's election. After the ballots were counted, F.W.'s National Party barely retained its four-decade grip on power...
Willem, influenced by the less strident opinions of his mother's family, began veering leftward while editing a Calvinist monthly, Word and Deed, in the mid-1950s. "I gained this insight that apartheid is not a just dispensation, not a solution for South Africa, not founded in morality, not common sense," he recalls. He began speaking out against such National Party measures for entrenching apartheid as the Group Areas Act, the Population Registration Act and the move to give blacks voting rights in so-called black homelands rather than in South Africa proper. He has committed what many Afrikaners consider...