Word: apartheid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...murder for the foreseeable future. The A.W.B.-aligned Volksfront is planning acts of & civil disobedience aimed at provoking confrontations with government security forces. Many South Africans may think it fitting if the A.N.C. chooses to use some of the same methods to crack down on the right that the apartheid government used against its freedom fighters for the past 46 years...
White-haired, bearded Cronje Tshaka is older than the 82-year-old African National Congress. Now he has outlived apartheid. Clutching his identity book in one hand and his cane in the other, Tshaka, 95, waited patiently in line to vote last week -- like all South Africa's black citizens, for the first time in his life. He shook off offers of help, walking unsteadily but unaided into the polling station in Guguletu, one of the toughest and grimiest of the black townships around Cape Town. Minutes later he emerged, a broad grin lighting his face. "I never thought...
...Cape of Good Hope, the old South Africa of segregation and oppression dissolved itself and re-emerged as a tentatively hopeful, newly democratic nation. On Wednesday morning at 12:01, the old order formally ended as cheering crowds in the nine new provincial capitals hailed the lowering of apartheid's blue-white-and-orange flag and the raising of a banner with six colors symbolizing the people, their blood, their land, the gold under the ground, the sky -- and white for peace...
...same moment, the country became whole again. The 10 black homelands, including four that had pretended to independence, designed by apartheid architects as places of exile for surplus people with black skin, were abolished. The armed services became the South African National Defense Force, and will begin to absorb former enemies from guerrilla armies like the A.N.C.'s Spear of the Nation. Things were changing so fast, a South African Broadcasting Corp. interviewer lost track of who was President, Nelson Mandela, who will be sworn in next week, or F.W. de Klerk, the incumbent. He turned from talking with...
...victors must govern the country they have won. It is up to Mandela and his comrades to set the course. They must finish the task of dismantling the apartheid structures, reforming bureaucracies and constructing a unified, multiracial South Africa. "We are starting a new era," said Mandela, after casting his vote outside Durban, "of hope, of reconciliation, of nation building...