Word: apartheid
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Williams said that being a Black South Africanin the days of apartheid meant standing up to theoppressive...
South Africa had its first democratic elections last year after decades of apartheid in which whites and Blacks were not equal in the eyes...
Rows of cheering diplomats welcomed South Africa back to the United Nations as the country regained its seat after 20 years of banishment because of its policy of apartheid. "The long night of diplomatic isolation has finally come to an end," South African Foreign Minister Alfred Nzo said...
When the goal is changing behavior rather than changing governments, the results are mixed. The U.S. has abandoned the trade weapon as a lever to improve human rights in China, yet years of sanctions helped end apartheid in South Africa. Even there, however, it was the possibility of revolution, which prompted foreign banks to stop lending for fear their money would be lost, that was mostly responsible for the white minority's finally ceding power. If, as it seems, North Korea's nukes have become central to the Kims' sense of themselves, no sanctions will deter their desire to expand...
...Hendrik Verwoerd, the mastermind of apartheid, died by an assassin's hand on the floor of South Africa's House of Assembly (the scuffle marks are still visible), and his bronze bust continues to glower from its plinth in the old entrance hall. One imagines he would never have countenanced the vibrant scene last week, as the House opened its new session complete with tribal dress in the back benches. But Verwoerdian notions about decorum, among other topics, no longer hold sway in a government whose face has changed dramatically overnight. Parliament, with its stuffy, Westminster-style affectations, has already...