Word: apartheid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Three million years ago, humanity was born in East Africa. Last February it was reborn in South Africa. More than one man was liberated when Nelson Mandela stepped into the sunlight; an entire nation appealed for release from the prison of apartheid...
...1920s de facto apartheid was a feature of South African life. The poorest whites possessed something that the most prosperous blacks could never have: the vote. Subsequent governments flirted with Nazi Germany, then embraced liberal policies, but the racism endured. With all the warm pronunciations of President F.W. de Klerk, it prevails even amid the current talk of reforms...
Locked away in jail, where he could not speak publicly or even have his picture published, Mandela was an ethereal inspiration to continued resistance against apartheid. To some South African blacks, however, Mandela out of prison has become an irrelevant figurehead, a dignified gentleman with utopian socialist ideas that have little to do with their daily lives...
...that its underground network of agents could quickly organize control in the black townships. As it turned out, the A.N.C. enjoys less allegiance than it claimed. Moreover, Mandela has been sending out a mixed message, calling at once for peace and for a continuation of the "armed struggle" against apartheid...
When Nelson Mandela was released from prison, he said, "We call on the international community to continue the campaign to isolate the apartheid regime...Now is the time to intensify the struggle on all fronts. To relax now would be a mistake which generations to come will not be able to forgive...