Word: apartheid
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...Zuma's legal difficulties are, in part, a reflection of the bitter power struggle that erupted inside the ruling ANC after the retirement of South Africa's first post-apartheid president, Nelson Mandela. Mbeki succeeded Mandela when he retired in 1998, with Zuma as his deputy, but the two became estranged over a variety of political issues and allegations of corruption against Zuma. In 2005, Mbeki fired Zuma as Deputy President.The following year, Zuma found himself facing separate criminal charges of rape and corruption. His supporters claimed the charges were fabricated by his political enemies, and Zuma was acquitted...
...Apartheid era President F.W. de Klerk, who also served as deputy president under Mandela, has begun a campaign to highlight what he claims is ANC abuse of power. "Everywhere the dividing lines between the state and the ruling movement are becoming more blurred," De Klerk told the Cape Town Press Club in June. The "rights and values" which he and Mandela enshrined in the country's 1994 constitution, "are under severe pressure," he said. It says something for how far the ANC has fallen from the moral high ground that in today's South Africa, a former apartheid ruler...
...often bizarre system of weights-and-measures used by the apartheid state to classify people for purposes of separating them, Chinese South Africans were first deemed "Asiatic," then "Colored," and finally "the Chinese Group, which shall consist of persons who in fact are, or who, except in the case of persons who in fact are members of a race or class or tribe referred to in paragraph (1), (2), (3), (5) or (6) are generally accepted as members of a race or tribe whose national home is in China." Thus Population Registration Act of 1950, whose tortured language underlines...
...white" on the grounds that he associated with whites and was "generally accepted" as one. On March 23, 1962, the liberal Rand Daily Mail remarked: "Under the kind of legislation which allows an admitted Chinese, born in Canton, to be declared a White South African, anything can happen." Apartheid had "no accepted scientific basis," the paper editorialized, and attempting to "define the indefinable," inevitably resulted in "humiliating" and "endless" disputes...
...authors of apartheid found, when you try to order humanity according to race, you quickly descend into tragicomedy. Lai's friend Edwin Chang, 50, a caretaker, says he's lived with this absurdity all his life. He was born in South Africa to immigrants from the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou, grew up in black townships and speaks English, Afrikaans and Zulu. "Some say we are black, some say we are Asian, some say we are colored, some call me a Boer [a collective term for Afrikaans-speaking white people]," he says. "It's confusing. Where do we stand...