Word: apartheiders
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That brave repudiation of a regime bent on perpetuating white hegemony in South Africa earned Mandela a lifetime's incarceration, while his jailers pressed on with their megalomaniac construct called grand apartheid. At the same time, his stance just as surely launched South Africa on the road to democracy. Last week the country took an irreversible step forward when black and white political leaders declared that every citizen will be able to vote to choose the government. With that historic agreement, Mandela and South Africa's 28 million blacks will be able to savor the success of their freedom struggle...
...blacks, the long-awaited vote will formally end the humiliation, injustice and injury of the past four decades and complete the dismantling of apartheid, that pervasively dysfunctional experiment in political and social engineering. The balloting will allow the pariah state to regain a place in the community of nations. And the voters will almost certainly reward Mandela's stoic struggle by conferring on him the leadership of his country...
...past month, as a political settlement ending decades of apartheid has inched within reach, Afrikaner and other militants have stepped up their resistance to the prospect of black majority rule. This is no mere wagon- circling exercise. This month a member of the neofascist Afrikaner Resistance Movement will stand trial for the April assassination of Chris Hani, leader of the South African Communist Party and a popular top official of the A.N.C. Two prominent right-wing Conservative Party officials will be tried as co-conspirators in the murder. Meanwhile, Groenewald and three other former generals have come out of retirement...
...roughly to the old Boer republics of the Transvaal and Orange Free State, which became part of the Union of South Africa in 1910. Neither De Klerk nor Mandela will accept such a state, since it would require the forced removal of millions of blacks or a return to apartheid-style discrimination against them...
...turn of events, time for the far right is running out. The setting of an election date should significantly strengthen the country's < growing political center. With progress like that, the diehards may be no match for the majority of South Africans, including most whites, who want to put apartheid -- and conflict -- behind them...