Word: homeland
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Talks between the government and the KwaZulu homeland are on hold...
...White right-wingers demonstrate for an Afrikaner homeland...
Such public bellicosity was too much for President F.W. de Klerk, who had been under A.N.C. pressure for weeks to crack down on Buthelezi and Inkatha. De Klerk could hesitate no longer. He declared a state of emergency in Natal Province, which includes the KwaZulu homeland where Buthelezi is chief minister. It will now be up to South Africa's army and police to control the incessant political violence in the region and make sure that voting in the country's first all-race elections can take place there on April 26, 27 and 28, despite Inkatha's fierce opposition...
...weeks ago, the world's media were flooded with bloody, unforgettable images from South Africa: two white, neo-Nazi militiamen -- wounded in a gun battle with black troops in the black homeland of Bophuthatswana -- were executed in front of a crowd of stunned photojournalists. What was it like to record this brutal scene? Time's Johannesburg bureau chief Scott MacLeod asked several of the photographers involved...
...leader of the South African homeland of Bophuthatswana dropped a boycott of South Africa's first all race elections scheduled for next month after demonstrators took to the streets. At least 24 people were killed during a week of civil unrest...