Word: apartheid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...soon as the threat of force became publicly known, the leaders of the Afrikaner Volksfront and Afrikaner Resistance Movement, two right-wing organizations of separatist whites, called for members from all over south Africa to go to Bophuthatswana and defend it as a bastion of the apartheid system. And they did. South African security forces managed to keep some of the hundreds of heavily armed civilians from entering the province, but many did reach its borders...
...first literary redundancy?" Although he tells the story with a twinkle, that fear has hovered over him for years. In his mind he is a poetic playwright, but the world has seen him as a political, even polemic one, and his works are valued more as testimony against apartheid than for their subtle interplay of emotion and Beckettian sensitivity to the downtrodden. For many people, Fugard's dramas mattered less than the taboos they broke -- The Blood Knot put a black actor alongside a white one on the same Johannesburg stage -- and the punishments they brought, including revocation...
Theater: Athol Fugard in a post-apartheid world...
...first time, but more than half are illiterate, and about 7 million of them live in rural areas far from the reach of campaign rallies and party workers. The tactics of the A.N.C. over the past 10 years led its & followers to scorn the local pseudoelections of the apartheid era rather than take part in them. "We come from a tradition of boycott politics," says national campaign chief Popo Molefe, who was convicted of treason in 1988 as a leader of the antigovernment United Democratic Front. "The vast majority of our people are not oriented toward participation. Now we have...
These rules would, of course, reinstate a form of Edith Wharton's Age of Innocence, an elaborate gender diplomacy and de facto sexual apartheid...