Word: apartheid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...indictments came only two days after Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu, another Nobel laureate, was named head of the 17-member, multiracial Truth Commission, which will investigate crimes of the apartheid era. The panel will have the power to recommend amnesty or prosecution in each case, but to be eligible for amnesty, individuals will have to come forward and admit their guilt. Malan will have no part of this and will take his chances in court...
...During the '80s, Harvard divested in South Africa and apartheid. Now, there is a growing class divide at home," said Jean Alonso '59, a member of Harvard and Radcliffe Alumni for Affordable Housing (HARAAH). The vigil, which was sponsored by a coalition of student, alumni and community groups, was the first of two demonstrations planned for December. A second vigil will be held at Holyoke Center next week...
...massacre of 13 women and children in the Zulu village of KwaMakutha. TIME's Peter Hawthorne reports that conservatives in South Africa are incensed that Malan and 10 other top military figures are being charged with setting up the hit-squad responsible for killings during the apartheid struggle. At the same time, former African National Congress leaders Thabo Mbeki and Joe Modise have been granted temporary immunity while a "Truth Commission," headed by Archbishop Desmond Tutu, investigates. South African right-wingers have accused Nelson Mandela of using the affair to dole out political retribution, a charge the South African President...
South African President Nelson Mandela named fellow Nobel Peace Prize winner Desmond Tutu to head a commission that will investigate political crimes committed under apartheid. "Tutu is a very good choice for the post," reports TIME's Peter Hawthorne from Cape Town. "He has shown himself to be on the side of truth, and shouldn't hold any longstanding bitterness during the hearings the commission will hold. He's also not afraid of controversy, even if that includes going against Mandela himself. For example, Tutu was critical of Mandela's handling of the situation in Nigeria, when the playwright...
Contrast the indifference that has greeted the long descent into autocracy by Africa's most populous and oil-rich nation with the outpouring of rage against apartheid in South Africa. Led by TransAfrica, a Washington-based lobbying group, the antiapartheid movement created extraordinary outside pressure that was a key weapon in toppling white supremacy. This was possible, says TransAfrica's leader, Randall Robinson, because South African oppression could be reduced to a simple black-and-white issue most Americans could understand. But when it comes to black-on-black oppression like Nigeria's, a kind of moral myopia sets...