Word: apartheid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Buoyed by the whiff of freedom in the South African air, the country's blacks strained to break one of apartheid's shackles last week by rising up against the Pretoria-installed leaders of two tribal homelands. In coastal Ciskei, army officers overthrew the government of "President for Life" Lennox Sebe. In Bophuthatswana, in north-central South Africa, troops and police rushed in to quell a popular revolt against President Lucas Mangope. Security forces also braced for trouble in Venda, in the country's northern...
...preached apartheid, I believed apartheid, I practiced apartheid, and I enjoyed apartheid," Naude said, "but I came to understand that it was utterly incompatible with my ideals as a Christian...
...minute sermon, the Rev. Christiaan Frederick Beyers Naude said that although he was brought up to believe in apartheid, he gradually decided that the system conflicted fundamentally with Christian values...
Christian churches should advocate courageous moral leadership in society whatever the costs, a leading South African minister and prominent opponent of apartheid told an audience of 70 in Memorial Church yesterday...
...time, Naude held a leadership position in the Dutch Reformed Church, but in 1964 he founded the Christian Institute, an ecumenical body meant to use religious organizations to combat apartheid. Naude formally left the Dutch Reformed Church...