Word: apartheid
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...Durban in Natal province, taking an additional 54 lives. But as the week ended, the country was alive with speculation that the white minority government of State President P.W. Botha was on the verge of making concessions that might, for the first time, affect the essential framework of apartheid. The entire country, and many other governments as well, was caught up in the rumors that Botha may announce a package of unprecedented reforms this Thursday when he addresses the Natal provincial congress of his ruling National Party...
...withdrawn their ambassadors for consultations, a deliberate gesture of disapproval. The Botha government's state of emergency has been denounced throughout the world. Last week, as he prepared to leave for a trip to seven black African countries, Pope John Paul II declared that South Africa's policy of apartheid was weighing on "the conscience of mankind," adding, "Our repugnance toward any form of racial discrimination is absolute and total...
...South Africa. According to U.S. sources, the meeting was blunt and serious in tone. American representatives emphasized the need for Pretoria to embark on meetings with "credible" black leaders aimed at devising some sort of power sharing. Beyond that, the Americans restated the long-standing U.S. view that apartheid must be abandoned, South Africa should forsake its policy of creating "independent" homelands for blacks and instead should consider itself a unified country and all its people should enjoy the rights of citizenship. The South Africans were told that there would be no change in the policy of "constructive engagement...
...animals. Recognize us for what we are: those whom God made in his image. I believe that what you get through the barrel of a gun you must keep with the barrel of a gun. All that is happening here is quite simple. The unrest is because of apartheid. Because some of God's children are treated as if they are less than God's children. As long as some of God's children are not free, none of God's children will be free. Those who rule us are watching us. They can't enjoy their freedom. It cannot...
...dead white man. But you cannot sense any hostility toward whites. It is one of those paradoxes. This is one of the things that you would hopefully say to the State President: "All you need to do to unlock all that goodwill is to say you intend to dismantle apartheid, you are going to release unconditionally the people they acknowledge to be their leaders, you are going to sit down and talk with them, and you do have a specific program and plan...