Word: apartheid
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...South Africa nears the scheduled election date of April 27, 1994, deepening poverty, right-wing terrorism and government sponsored violence against anti-apartheid political parties are emerging as serious threats to a peaceful transfer of power. At this important moment, editor Steve Clark and Pathfinder Press have done us a great service, collecting public addresses made over the past four years by South Africa's most prominent statesman in Nelson Mandela Speaks: Forging a Democratic, Nonracial South Africa. In the 31 separate appearances before student groups, trade unions, community organizations, branches of the ANC and audiences in the United States...
...August 1962, when Mandela began serving his prison term, it was difficult for any political analyst to feel optimistic about the prospects for freedom in south Africa. The apartheid regime of the National Party, in power since 1948, responded to decades of nonviolent resistance with intransigence. After the 1960 massacre at Sharpeville, the ANC decided to resort to a limited campaign of sabotage directed at government installations. For his part in organizing Umkhonto we Sizwe, the armed wing of the ANC, Mandela--already a practicing lawyer, a veteran of the ANC Youth League and an activist in the 1952 Defiance...
Sweeping Away Apartheid...
South Africa's white minority government and black political leaders approved a new constitution that ends apartheid. The 142-page document, two years in the writing, guarantees freedom of speech, movement and political activity for all citizens. The charter also provides for transitional quasi-legislative bodies to oversee national elections next April 27, the first in which blacks, who constitute 75% of the population, will be permitted to vote...
Nair's "The Day the Mercedes Turned Into a Hat," a 10-minute film about the ending of apartheid in South Africa, was played before the audience in its world premiere...