Word: apartheiders
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...each group is prideful of its own heroes and pleasured by the insulated coherence of its own world. Come the next nasty pan this happy commerce between our spheres will diminish, and we shall retreat again for a time, as "writers" and "actors," into the apartheid of mutual ridicule...
Ronaid Segal, South African author, editor, and anti-apartheid spokesman, will speak on South Africa, and U.S. policy toward it, tonight at 8 p.m. in Boylston Hall...
...Nationalist government, composed mostly of Dutch-descended Boers, also fears that canned TV programs from the U.S. and Britain would further "anglicize" South Africa, 37% of whose white population is English-speaking. Beyond that, the Nationalists feel that Anglo-Saxon liberalism reflected in such programs could subtly undermine apartheid-although a good packager ought to be able to find some pretty safe fare. Still, Hertzog accuses South Africa's English-dominated business community, and specifically Diamond Tycoon Harry F. Oppenheimer, of plotting to bring in television, which could mean "the destruction of white South Africa...
...Verwoerd may use the promise of TV as a vote-getting device to enhance his party's expected victory in the next election. And it is even beginning to dawn on some stubborn Nationalists that television, under strict government control, could be a powerful tool to spread their apartheid gospel in black and white, and maybe even color...
...quarrel with the ministers had begun over their contention that Banda was assuming too much personal power. In an emergency decree last week, Banda showed how autocratic he could get. Borrowing measures from the apartheid states of South Africa and Southern Rhodesia, Banda assumed sweeping powers to restrict the movements and control the statements or actions of anyone in the country without resort to the courts...