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...devoutly Roman Catholic parents, Jimmy and Roma, lived in Parkmore, a tree-lined Johannesburg suburb -- and they accepted apartheid. Kevin, however, | like many of his generation, soon began to question it openly. "The police used to go around arresting black people for not carrying their passes," his mother recalls. "They used to treat them very badly, and we felt unable to do anything about it. But Kevin got very angry about it. He used to have arguments with his father. 'Why couldn't we do something about it? Why didn't we go shout at those police...
...fantasized about becoming a race-car driver. After graduating from a Catholic boarding school in Pretoria in 1976, Carter studied pharmacy before dropping out with bad grades a year later. Without a student deferment, he was conscripted into the South African Defense Force, where he found upholding the apartheid regime loathsome. Once, after he took the side of a black mess-hall waiter, some Afrikaans-speaking soldiers called him a kaffir-boetie ("nigger lover") and beat him up. In 1980 Carter went absent without leave, rode a motorcycle to Durban and, calling himself David, became a disk jockey. He longed...
Marking his first 100 days in office, South Africa's President Nelson Mandela announced he will set up a Truth and Reconciliation Commission to uncover the crimes of apartheid and lay to rest a past that "threatens to live with us as a festering sore." The controversial move is fiercely opposed by white right- wing groups...
Williams said that being a Black South Africanin the days of apartheid meant standing up to theoppressive...
South Africa had its first democratic elections last year after decades of apartheid in which whites and Blacks were not equal in the eyes...