Word: apartheid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...elect a new executive body and is expected to elevate Nelson Mandela to the A.N.C. presidency to replace the ailing Oliver Tambo. But government officials complained that the A.N.C.'s organizational problems could make it difficult for President F.W. de Klerk to convene full-scale discussions on a post-apartheid constitution by March, as planned...
WHATEVER the outcome of Pritchett's investigation, his rescue attempts can never revive the Review. Founded 10 years ago, the paper has alienated so many readers that it will always be remembered for such antics as the destruction of anti-Apartheid shanties on the birthday of Martin Luther King...
There is more in My Son's Story than domestic tensions. South African author Nadine Gordimer has never acquired the luxury of believing that private lives can proceed in a political vacuum. The stark choices imposed by apartheid allow no such privilege. And so the three characters who meet in the lobby of a recently desegregated movie house in Johannesburg represent more than the sum of personal discomforts caused by this encounter. The father and son are "colored," as determined by South Africa's laws, and the woman in question is white...
...does not have to explain his absences from home to his wife Aila, his daughter Baby or his son Will. They all, however, wind up knowing where and with whom he has been spending his time. The consequences of such knowledge prove as shattering as the strictures of apartheid...
...spitting at our demonstration," Barr said. Barr attributed the hostility to strong anti-Arab sentiment on campus. "No one is going to go around spitting on an anti-Apartheid demonstration...