Word: apartheid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...transitions into democratic statehood...in January of 1949 [Israel] extend[ed] votes and citizenship rights equally to all, including its substantial Arab minority." Yet until after 1956, Palestinians living in Israel needed to obtain travel permits in order to leave their towns. In South Africa, this is known as apartheid. What kind of democracy discriminates against some of its people based on race...
...Libertas, the presidential mansion in Pretoria is now officially named Mahlamba'ndlopfu (Dawn of a New Era) in Shangaan. The Pretoria-Witwatersrand-Vereeniging region, South Africa's industrial heart, is now simply called Gauteng (Place of Gold) in Sotho. The Hendrik Verwoerd Dam (named for the architect of apartheid) has become the Gariep Dam, gariep being an ancient African word for wilderness...
...shantytowns and the whites in their high-walled suburban homes live no differently than they did before. And, of course, there would be truth to that, for the lives of most South Africans have not altered materially. But anyone who has spent more than an afternoon in the old apartheid South Africa, anyone who has visited even for a week the grim, oppressive, lopsided country run by ironfisted Afrikaners in Homburg hats, anyone who knew it then and sees it now knows the country is utterly altered. A year of freedom has filled blacks and whites alike with pride, with...
...perhaps should have, in the case of building houses and medical clinics -- but as Jay Naidoo, the minister responsible for the all-important Reconstruction and Development Program, puts it, "The question is, How do we make this sustainable?" Naidoo patiently explains that in order to do anything, every apartheid regulation had to be rewritten. "Time has been spent on putting mechanisms into place," he says...
...events since Mandela's release, it becomes clear that he is an unabashed optimist about the future of his country. South Africa, he suggests, is a kind of laboratory for the future of race relations around the world. He predicts that the "unique balance of mutual dependency" that made apartheid unworkable will bind the nation together in a kind of multiethnic harmony. Like Mandela, Sparks believes that what unites black and white in South Africa is greater than what divides them...