Word: died
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...South African whites head toward their first general election in six years on May 6, Heyns' warning is clear proof that the fortress of apartheid, which looks so monolithic to the outside world, is showing signs of cracks. It is also an indication that the once united Afrikaners, die volk, the white tribe, who number only 3 million of the country's nearly 35 million* inhabitants but grimly assert their claim to political power, stand united no longer...
Anton Steenkamp, a former editor of Die Matie, a year ago led an attempt by Stellenbosch students to visit the headquarters of the outlawed African National Congress in Lusaka, but the government refused to issue them passports. He says he finds more dissatisfaction than ever before. "There has been a shift to the left on campus, especially since the independent candidates have emerged...
...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 700, an additional 301 promptly signed the manifesto and promised that more would soon add their signatures...
...including credit cards, club memberships and photographs, heavily making the point that the seat of the owner's identity is his hip pocket. A story that begins "Though I was between marriages for several years, in a disarray that preoccupied me completely, other people continued to live and to die" sends the eye skidding down the page in search of traction...
Communist officials assented to the reforms at least partly because they realize that some private enterprises are inevitable. "Until recently it was generally held that the collectivized public sector was capable of satisfying all the population's demands and that individual enterprise . . . would gradually die out," wrote Economist Ivor Raig in last fall's issue of the journal Sotsiologicheskie Issledovania (Sociological Research). Now, he suggested, officials acknowledge that "individual enterprise satisfies to a considerable extent the population's demands in many goods and services...