Word: caping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...major segregation laws of the 1950s, was the fantasy that South Africa's blacks could be legally assigned to ten autonomous tribal homelands and then admitted to white South Africa only as migrant workers, not citizens. The realities of urbanization mock that fantasy, and anyone wandering around Cape Town or Johannesburg today can see blacks sitting next to whites in restaurants or lining up in the same banking queue to be served by a black teller. Nobody is surprised to observe a black traffic policeman ticketing a white who ran a stop sign, or even a black-and-white couple...
What traditionally united the Afrikaners was not just their language and their religion but also their history of struggle and oppression. They are very proud and very aware of their claim that they came to this land first. When Jan van Riebeeck disembarked at the Cape of Good Hope in 1652 to establish a supply station for Dutch East India Company vessels en route to India, he found nobody except a few brown-skinned nomads whom the Dutch called Hottentots. Van Riebeeck described these aborigines as a "dull, rude, lazy and stinking nation," and most of them subsequently died...
...British arrived in 1795 and seized the Cape Town settlement with no real justification except that they wanted to deny the strategic site to France's India trade. But even after the defeat of Napoleon, the British stayed on. They subjected the pioneering Afrikaners to the discomforts of British law, including a ban on slavery...
...Population Registration Act of 1950 provided elaborate definitions and regulations, and even now about 1,000 people every year apply to get reclassified from one race to another. That same year the Group Areas Act empowered the government to uproot thousands of people and move them elsewhere. In Cape Town's District Six, for example, some 70,000 coloreds were removed from their bustling and vibrant neighborhood and shipped to a housing project outside town so that their old homes could be razed and replaced with white businesses and high-rises. Many whites boycotted this scheme, however, and the razed...
...intelligentsia. Because it is an ideology as well as a power system, apartheid needs the Afrikaner intelligentsia to explain and justify its workings. The intellectual center of Afrikanerdom is the University of Stellenbosch, just outside Cape Town, and Stellenbosch is in turmoil. Not only are the students increasingly disaffected (see box), but 27 senior academics recently resigned in protest from the National Party and issued a manifesto demanding abolition of all "residuals of apartheid." When the Cape Town Nationalist newspaper Die Burger dismissed the gesture as "trivial" because there were only 27 protesters in a faculty of more than...