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Last week's cycle of events began in the vicinity of Port Elizabeth, where blacks protested crippling local unemployment by staging a weekend boycott of shops, buses and factories. The boycott resulted in five blacks being killed in clashes with the police. Anger at those deaths sparked the march at Langa. That conflict, in turn, set off further rioting...
...between President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq, who seized power in 1977, and the alliance of eleven opposition parties known as the Movement for the Restoration of Democracy. Zia exhorted his countrymen to vote, thereby demonstrating their support of his government; the opposition parties called for an election boycott, in the hope that this would lead Zia and the other generals back to their barracks. The result was a standoff. Rejecting the opposition's call for a boycott, almost 53% of the country's 35 million eligible voters went to the polls, compared with 59% in 1970 and about...
...ruled by martial law. Zia insists that the elections will lead to a restoration of civilian rule, possibly "within a few months." Toward this end he had gone to enormous effort to ensure a good turnout. His government declared it a crime for anyone to call for an election boycott, and the President said that "to cast a vote is a religious duty." To make sure the opposition did not have a chance to sell its arguments to voters, Zia ordered the arrest of some 3,000 politicians, although the government announced that all of them would be released within...
Participants in the project include Rosa Parks, whose refusal to obey the Jim Crow laws sparked the 1955 Bus Boycott in Montgomery, Ala. Muriel S. Snowden, co-founder and director of Freedom House, a human rights advocacy institution in Roxbury, also took part in the program...
...first time, the government held elections for parliamentary candidates to represent the nation's 2.8 million people of mixed race and its 850,000 Indians. Yet under the new constitution, South Africa's 23 million blacks still have no national voice whatever. In protest, the U.D.F. led a boycott of the elections that resulted in less than a third of the eligible nonwhites casting votes. Afterward, the government detained a number of the organization's top representatives without charge. Last week's sweep effectively silenced many of those remaining...