Word: apartheiders
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...endowment's trustees, Paul V. Holtzman '83, said that while he is happy to see apartheid ended, he regrets Harvard's inaction...
...with the lifting the apartheid in SouthAfrica, the last vestige of the student protestshas now gone...
...soon as the threat of force became publicly known, the leaders of the Afrikaner Volksfront and Afrikaner Resistance Movement, two right-wing organizations of separatist whites, called for members from all over south Africa to go to Bophuthatswana and defend it as a bastion of the apartheid system. And they did. South African security forces managed to keep some of the hundreds of heavily armed civilians from entering the province, but many did reach its borders...
Thousands of people could potentially have been killed had the right-wing Afrikaners and the South African Army waged a pitched battle in a country that trusted neither. It is unlikely that the Bophuthatswanan police would have fought gladly alongside their strange bedfellows from the other side of the apartheid bed. A three-sided conflict could have emerged and threatened the entire election process. Instead, the government mopped up after a day of bloody skirmishes and brought a tense peace to the region...
Theater: Athol Fugard in a post-apartheid world...