Word: apartheid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act of 1986 demands five actions from Pretoria before unfettered trade and investment can resume: legalizing all political parties, lifting the state of emergency, freeing political prisoners, eliminating apartheid laws and opening talks on a new government...
...recently, the white-ruled government of South Africa employed pass-card and fingerprint systems, running on computers supplied by IBM and the British firm ICL, to enforce travel restrictions on the black population. This practice eventually led to a U.S.-government ban on the sale of computers to any apartheid-enforcing agency...
...banner headline in the Johannesburg Star summed up the historic day: APARTHEID'S PILLARS COME CRASHING DOWN. South Africa's white-dominated Parliament last week repealed the notorious Land Acts and the Group Areas Act, which divided residential areas along racial lines and restricted land ownership by blacks, reserving 87% of the country's land for whites. Now blacks will be free to buy, use or rent land and property anywhere in South Africa. The scrapping of the legislation was a victory for President F.W. de Klerk, who pledged last February to get rid of all remaining discriminatory laws...
...number of middle-class blacks are yet able to afford houses in the plush white suburbs, and many of the cheaper inner- city apartment blocks have been unofficially multiracial for years. At the same time, the government has so far opposed any moves to restore land confiscated during the apartheid era to the original black owners...
...past couple of years has brought a windfall of improvements in the world: the collapse of communism; the dismantling of apartheid; the end of the cold war and the nuclear menace, at least in its apocalyptic Big Power form. State violence (in the style of Hitler, Stalin, Ceausescu) seemed to be skulking off in disrepute. Francis Fukuyama, a former U.S. State Department policy planner, even proclaimed "the end of history." The West and democratic pluralism seemed to have triumphed: satellites and computers and ; communications and global business dissolved the old monoliths in much of the world. Humankind could take satisfaction...