Word: apartheiders
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McQuillen, a social anthropology concentrator, will also spend her summer in South Africa but will investigate the changing lives of workers in the wine industry after apartheid...
...These are quite exciting times to be working in Africa," she said, noting that it was only ten years ago that apartheid reigned in South Africa...
...last week, in one of those apparent miracles of the late 20th century--like the end of the cold war and the surrender of apartheid in South Africa--some of the awful weight of that Irish history was lifted. The governments of Britain and Ireland and the key political leaders of the warring factions in Northern Ireland, with major assistance from Bill Clinton and former Senator George Mitchell, agreed to replace terrorism with democracy and to let the people of the North decide their own ultimate fate...
South Africa's break from its apartheid past has not only opened the doors to world recognition; it has also put the country firmly on the international travel map. Newly plunged into global markets, the Cape wine industry has expanded its traditional, highly regulated, conservative marketing base and drawn in Germans, French, Swiss, Italians. Russians and Californians as investors in South African grapes. Some of the leading Cape estates now boast European winemakers; Zelma Long and Phil Freese, well known in Sonoma, Calif., are in a joint vineyard venture with Michael Back, owner of Backsberg, a top South African estate...
...result of his stubbornness is that he has to do it in court, when the Truth Commission were offering him a private hearing." His defiance, however, isn't surprising -- Botha is one of the few leaders of the old regime who hasn't bothered to shed crocodile tears over apartheid...