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Former South African President and Nobel Peace Prize winner F.W. de Klerk described his vision for inter-ethnic cooperation to an overflow audience at the ARCO Forum last night while fervently denying any responsibility for crimes committed under his nation's former apartheid regime...
Rupert, who built a corporate giant from a backyard cigarette factory, has been a crusader in enlightened business practices. His company led the way in establishing pay and fringe-benefits standards for black workers during the apartheid years. Now, with the ambitious conservation project roaring to life, he has earned a new kind of title: Anton Rupert, bio-diplomat...
...Gien's dazzling performance only enhances the simple emotional power of the tale. What we see through the eyes of six-year-old Elizabeth, her black caretaker and the others who populate this story is that apartheid was not only fought in the frontline political struggle broadcast around the world, but also in the closely knit circles of families, in the intimacies of individual relationships and in the quiet but fierce struggles of personal conscience...
...loves and dreams, the earth we rise up out of, and remain connected to our whole lives, and those we carry with us, wherever we go. I think that's a powerful idea, one that gives me great hope for the future, for peace and equality in the world. Apartheid had no winners. We all lost. It was a sad and disgraceful time, and I hope the play shows the complexities. "The Syringa Tree" takes a very strong stand against oppression, but not by lecturing or sermonizing. I tried to write what I feel, that, black or white, good...
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak's strategy of imposing a "unilateral separation" on the Palestinians if Yasser Arafat declares statehood [WORLD, Nov. 6] reminds me of South Africa's semantic maneuvering to replace the word apartheid with words like "separate development." Of course, the Middle East and South African situations are totally different. But Barak and Arafat can follow Nelson Mandela's and F.W. de Klerk's example and not only talk but also work together and walk the whole mile of transformation to democracy without outside mediators. JAN MAARSCHALK Florida Hills, South Africa...