Word: apartheid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...says to call him "Che Guevara." He lives in Zola, one of the ghetto districts that make up the vast black township of Soweto, outside Johannesburg. At 22 he is a hardened veteran of the struggle against apartheid. He has killed "enemies of the people" and is prepared to kill again...
...Klerk appeared determined to root out virtually every major form of legal discrimination. Among the laws he promised to scrap was one that helped create the all-black homelands. Yet a few legal vestiges of apartheid will remain in a technical sense. Children who were born after the repeal of the Population Registration Act will no longer be classified by race, but the register will not be scrapped entirely until the new government comes...
...strategy. As A.N.C. demonstrators called for immediate elections, Buthelezi applauded De Klerk's rejection of such a move, which the Zulu leader denounced as "a constitutional leap into the dark." At the same time, Buthelezi praised the De Klerk government for "lending its weight to breaking the back of apartheid...
...battle 5,000 white farmers who paralyzed traffic by parking farm vehicles on downtown streets. Backed by the Conservative Party and the neo-Nazi Afrikaner Resistance Movement, the protesters demanded an end to political reforms. The black violence and right- wing intransigence showed that the final days of apartheid could prove to be as tumultuous as any that have come before...
WORLD: South Africa dismantles the last bastions of apartheid, while black leaders strive to end years of bloody rivalry...