Word: apartheiders
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Commonwealth's 600 million colored citizens. The measure, which stipulates that Commonwealth citizens may in the future enter the mother country only if they can prove that they have jobs to go to, has stirred deep resentment from Ireland to India, where it is being called "British apartheid." Sir Grantley Adams, federal prime minister of the British West Indies, said bitterly last week: "I was consulted about as much as a father consults his son whether he should be flogged...
...Effective legal protection of fundamental and inalienable human rights without distinction as to race, religion or belief"-a resolution that was aimed as much at Kwame Nkrumah's Ghana as at apartheid-ruled South Africa...
Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd, who cannot tolerate criticism, has long been troubled by the English press, which has a daily circulation of 685,000 v. 175,000 for the Afrikaans press. Unlike the Afrikaans press, the English-language dailies boldly criticize the government, deplore apartheid, expose hypocrisy. The Johannesburg Sunday Times's Political Columnist Stanley Uys, for example, recently called Verwoerd "a mass psychologist with a massive contempt for the English-speaking masses...
...Algerian Apartheid. The riots afforded disconcerting proof of the F.L.N.'s hold over France's Algerian population. Since 1947, when they were allowed to enter France freely as full citizens, they have flooded into the country in what French sociologists call "the immigration of hunger." Now 350,000 strong (200,000 in Paris alone), they are a vital segment of the labor force, do most of France's back-breaking labor from road building to stevedoring. They live in slums but earn union-scale wages-dazzling by Arab standards. As a result, they not only support...
...soon found that police, with newly issued bulletproof vests and three-foot staves for patrol duty, wasted no time repeating the advice to those who ignored the curfew. Algerians, who theoretically enjoy the same civil rights as Frenchmen, protested that they were subjected to a form of apartheid as virulent as South Africa's-and seizing on that mood, the F.L.N. organized the protest marches that ended in last week's bloody battles...