Word: govan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Shortly after African National Congress Leader Govan Mbeki was set free this month, a group of his supporters held a rally at Johannesburg's Khotso House, headquarters of a dozen antiapartheid groups. Only a year earlier, white occupants of an apartment house across the street had caused a minor riot at the same spot by tossing flowerpots and other missiles onto the crowd from their balconies. This time curious residents again peered from their balconies, but no one down below thought of ducking. Even though the apartment building is restricted by law to whites only, most of the onlookers were...
...became potent symbols of black resistance to white minority rule. They were all senior members of the African National Congress, the outlawed antiapartheid organization. The only white among them was granted clemency in 1985 after agreeing to renounce violence. The rest refused to accept that condition. Last week Govan Mbeki, 77, became the first black in the group to be freed...
...humane, responsible U.S. citizens, we, along with the Nicaraguans, have reason to worry and demand a halt to the U.S. covert war in Nicaragua. Carrie S. Govan...