Word: apartheid
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...analogous to the lynching of blacks in the South as a result of far less serious allegations (such as merely looking at white females or operating a successful business). That is to say nothing (as most Americans would prefer) of 244 years of enslavement, a legalized system of apartheid, and the disease of systematically entrenched racism that thrives to this...
That truth, in all its ugly detail, is emerging in affidavits by Jones and others before South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, the inquiry that convened last April to investigate and adjudge some of the worst abuses of apartheid. Many of those providing details are the killers themselves, eager to exchange information for the commission's promises of amnesty. Last month the commission disclosed that applications had been filed by a number of former security policemen in connection with the deaths of at least 10 antiapartheid activists, including Biko, as well as incidents of torture and assault, including...
Marshall also brought a sense of social justice to the job of general counsel, having spent years prior as an anti-apartheid activist. We hope that Rudenstine will choose an equally socially concerned general counsel...
SENTENCED. EUGENE DE KOCK, 48, commander of a South African security-police assassination squad who was nicknamed Prime Evil by his colleagues; on 89 charges, including six of murder committed during the apartheid era; to two life terms and 212 years in prison; in Pretoria...
...commission's luck changed the very next day when five ex-officers in South Africa's dreaded Security Branch applied for amnesty and offered to reveal details about the death-squad murders of some 40 political activists. With that, the sarcophagus of silence that had shielded top apartheid-era leaders finally cracked. The five officers, including a police brigadier who had commanded a hit-squad training camp, claimed they took orders from the State Security Council, a secret junta of military, police and government officials whose sweeping powers enabled it to bypass Parliament. The council was headed by Botha...