Word: apartheid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...victory of such magnitude on an issue so fundamental could easily push a political leader toward hyperbole. But President F.W. de Klerk was not exaggerating a bit when he said in Cape Town after last week's referendum, "Today we have closed the book on apartheid...
...five working groups, and one of them reached agreement on "basic principles" involved in establishing an interim government. When CODESA's second plenary session is held next month, A.N.C. officials say, agreement on an interim government could be reached. "It will," says Mandela, "supervise the transition from an apartheid to a democratic state...
Jackson referred to what' students say is alack of diversity as "apartheid in the Law Schoolfaculty at Harvard...
Negotiations to write a new constitution for South Africa have been under , way since December, but sometimes it seems as if the extremes -- white and black -- might first pull the country apart. The growing strength of the pro- apartheid Conservative Party has forced President F.W. de Klerk to hold a whites-only referendum on March 17 to shore up support for multiracial democracy. Meanwhile, black ultranationalists are demanding nothing less than De Klerk's surrender of power. With the old order crumbling and the shape of the new uncertain, the country is riper than ever for the destructive influence...
...Pretoria heading for their middle- class suburbs, Rudolph is eager to make a move. It may not be much longer, he speculates, before South Africa descends into civil war. If De Klerk hands over power to the A.N.C., he predicts, the volk will fight. If the pro- apartheid Conservative Party defeats De Klerk in his reform referendum, then it will be the blacks who rise up. Either way, the Boers stand to lose whatever powers and privileges they enjoyed during the apartheid years. "Time has run out in our land," Rudolph says. "Now this cannot be resolved without a fight...