Word: apartheid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...white South Africans had decided that President F.W. De Klerk was not leading the country in the right direction, the proposed general election could have resulted in a victory for the right wing Conservative Party--and a return to apartheid...
...REFORM PROCESS began in early 1990 with Nelson Mandela's release and the unbanning of the ANC and other antiapartheid organizations. De Klerk can be credited for single-handedly changing the ruling National Party's course from pursuing a cosmetic reform program to actively dismantling apartheid...
...Klerk has been, for the most part, an unsung hero, forced to tread a fine line between National Party voters still committed to the maintenance of apartheid, and ANC members, concerned that the reform process will be stalled. He has had a number of factors stacked against him in his crusade...
...fact that South Africa was at a veritable watershed in deciding its future went almost completely unnoticed in the industrialized world. In this American election year, the United States was more focused on tax rates and marital infidelity than on the possible return to apartheid in South Africa...
THAT A RETURN TO apartheid was even debatable is abhorrent. It is morally indefensible that six million white South Africans decided the fate of thirty-four million of their fellow citizens. This vote is like asking an ill person whether he or she would like to take medicine. The doctor can't force you, but you would be much better off if you comply...