Word: bothas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Church theologian Willie Jonker declared apartheid a sin and confessed his guilt as well as that of the church and "the Afrikaner people as a whole." Although his declaration caused an uproar, his statements echoed a historic resolution adopted two weeks earlier at a church synod. Former President P.W. Botha briefly emerged from seclusion to express his anger. "The Afrikaners, my people, were not oppressors," he insisted. But progressive Afrikaners are advocating that the government take the matter further by actually apologizing to blacks and providing restitution for the damage done by apartheid...
...race South Africans, the Rev. Allan Boesak was known for invoking his moral authority to speak against apartheid. That authority all but evaporated last week when he was forced to resign his ministry after the press disclosed that he was having an extramarital affair with a television producer, Elna Botha...
...reason for the slight shift toward Pretoria is the skill with which De Klerk has managed his side of the contest with the A.N.C. Since his election last year to replace the autocratic P.W. Botha, he has done more to ease the country's internal conflict than all his predecessors combined. With the pace of change increasing, Mandela and the A.N.C. are in danger of losing the initiative...
...what really galled Botha was Jackson's apparent desire to share in the glow of Mandela's release. "The government's decisions ((on Mandela)) were taken before the arrival of Mr. Jackson," Botha said. "He can come and enjoy the aftermath, but he can certainly not claim any credit for having been a player on the field...
This time he avoided stirring up controversy. He declined to respond to Botha's charges, and he turned down a request to lead a protest against a visiting English cricket team. Still, black South Africans were unrestrained in their welcome for the American cleric. In Soweto, where he visited Sisulu, Jackson was followed by scores of singing and dancing people who, in addition to their traditional paeans to Mandela and the A.N.C., chanted "Long live Jesse Jackson...