Word: apartheid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...MARCH 17, in a national referendum with an 85 percent voter turnout, South African whites voted overwhelmingly (69 percent for, 31 against) to end the system of apartheid. This was no political gimmick on the part of the governing National Party, nor was it a merely grudging acceptance of reality...
Last week, South Africa was in danger of returning to apartheid. That should be scary enough to convince the U.S. and Britain that all is not well in the New World Order...
...legacies of apartheid and pre-apartheid are incredibly hard habits to break" because they are incorporated into the "physical, geographical structure," Matshikiza said...
...said inequality, "epitomized in the structure of apartheid," results in severe physical and psychological damage when people are kept "helplessly poor...
...emotional account of his exile and his attempts to re-enter South Africa, Matshikiza said apartheid "cuts people off from the nature of their being" by outlawing visits to family and to graves of ancestors...