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With Nelson Mandela's release in February 1990 and the declared dismantling of apartheid, the United States appears to be operating under the assumption that South Africa is well on its way to becoming a multiracial democracy...
Politically-related murders in the country have reached their highest levels in memory. More than 7,000 people (approximately 9 per day) have been killed in the past two years, during the so-called post-apartheid era. Blacks still cannot vote and they continue to be without representation in government. The South African educational system remains a jumbled mass of tangled bureaucracies (there are 19 departments of education), culturally biased matriculation exams and segregated schools...
More importantly, the International Monetary Fund has offered the South African government $10 billion in loans. This is the same broederbond-controlled government that has been in place since Hendrik Verwoerd developed the system which came to be known as apartheid...
...were Bishop Tutu (Brazil to South Africa); Liberty Mhlanga (Cape Town to Kenya); Margaret Pusch (Nassau to Brazil) and Maria Ruiz-Merroth (Nassau to Venezuala). They spoke on everything from the farming practices of the Massai in Kenya to third world debt problems, the Gulf of Columbia-Venezuela conflict, apartheid (or Apart-Hate as Desmond Tutu prefers to call it) in South Africa and Los Angeles and world population growth. In a way, they were the equivalent of visiting professors, though they would be embarrassed to be called such a thing...
...left, Ruth Fitzpatrick, leader of Women's Ordination Conference, finds it "pitiful that after nine years of work, this shoddy piece of paper is the best they can come up with." Feminist Schneiders argues that "you cannot say, 'Sexism is a sin except when we practice it.' Sexual apartheid is not acceptable, and it's not going to get acceptable by explaining it or claiming that it was God's idea...