Word: dissents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Since, then however the government in President has significantly tightened the enforcement of apartheid laws and repressed any signs of dissent. In 1966, the IDAF was banned and has been forced to smuggle aid into the country through what Gomes, calls "cloak and dagger means...
...speech in which Walesa boldly rebuked the government. When the authorities decided to broadcast the incident on national television, thousands of sympathizers around the country took to the streets. Walesa and other opposition leaders contrived to dampen the fervor of the crowds, and the militia managed to suppress the dissent without much difficulty. Still there was a message in last week's outbursts: though Solidarity may be nonexistent on paper, it is still very much alive in spirit...
Since then, however, the government in Pretoria has significantly tightened the enforcement of apartheid laws and repressed any signs of dissent. In 1966, the IDAF was banned and has been forced to smuggle aid into the country through what Gomes calls "cloak and dagger means...
...addition, by giving financial aid to the families of political prisoners, the organization helps remove a deterrent to dissent. "There is no welfare for the relatives of criminals in South Africa," Gomes explains. "So families are punished along with the prisoner which is the ultimate form of intimidation. We negate to some extent that intimidation through financial assistance...
...effect of these actions is to permit civil disobedience within the apartheid state, says the Black South African studying in this area. "The burden of dissent would be impossible to bear alone," he adds...