Word: apartheid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lawmakers to dismantle the Group Areas Act, which segregates black and white residential areas, and the Land Acts, which bar blacks from owning land outside specially designated homelands. He unveiled a major surprise by promising to phase out the infamous Population Registration Act. That hated law underpins the entire apartheid system by forcing South Africans to register by racial group for political and economic purposes...
...Klerk's speech capped one of the most fateful weeks in the long struggle against apartheid. Earlier, the A.N.C. and its major black power rival, the Zulu-based Inkatha Freedom Party, moved to end their bloody internecine strife. Mandela and Zulu Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi finally met for the first time in 28 years and asked their followers to "cease all attacks against one another with immediate effect." Feuding between the two factions has claimed as many as 8,000 lives since 1984. To underline the message, Mandela and Buthelezi agreed to tour the most violence-torn regions of the country...
Their reconciliation and De Klerk's repeal of apartheid set the stage for the next phase of the black campaign for equality. For years, outspoken | critics of apartheid have argued that even though the legal pillars of discrimination were crumbling, the real test for the nation would come when it finally moved to enfranchise blacks. While the A.N.C. insists that only a one- man, one-vote rule would transfer power from whites to blacks, De Klerk envisions a multiracial government with a system of checks and balances that would give every ethnic group a dominant voice in its own affairs...
What about those police officers in Selma, Ala., who in 1965 sent attack dogs after civil rights demonstrators? The South African security guards who enforce apartheid? And the Iraqi Republican Guard, or even the ordinary Iraqi soldiers, who invaded Kuwait? Weren't they all just following orders...
Although the time when divestment could have most helped anti-apartheid efforts has passed, HRAAA will continue to nominate candidates in an effort to forward broader goals of diversity and social responsibility, Solomon said...