Word: apartheid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Last week police arrested Eugene Terre Blanche, head of the neo-Nazi Afrikaner Resistance Movement, and nine of his most senior lieutenants, and charged them with public violence. The government's action followed a lengthy investigation of a violent clash between Terre Blanche's pro-apartheid brownshirts and police last August in which three people were killed outside a meeting hall where De Klerk was speaking...
Another impediment is what Luck calls "logrolling at its worst" in the General Assembly. The Arabs, for example, insist on maintaining a separate office for the Palestinians, and the Africans a special committee on apartheid. The two groups have banded together to protect both bureaucratic units, even though neither has a role to play in the affairs of the other...
...that the legislative pillars of apartheid have been scrapped, South Africa is trying to complete its transformation into a multiparty parliamentary system that will, for the first time, include the black majority. As its first task, the convention must provide the framework for a new constitution and the transition...
...national teams' emblem, the springbok holds a place of respect in the record books. But as a symbol of apartheid, this graceful African gazelle became an endangered species on the world's playing fields because of boycotts by sports organizations. Now that South Africa is allowed to play again, the sporting springbok is threatened anew...
During the last decade, activist overseers have challenged the Corporation's rule, urging the University to divest of its South Africa-related stock. In the mid-1980s, Harvard-Radcliffe Alumni Against Apartheid (HRAAA) began nominating candidates by petition to run against the University's official slate...