Word: lusaka
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...draped the black, green and gold banner of the outlawed African National Congress over the driveway. Others hoisted a smaller version up a makeshift flagpole atop the roof. Inside, Walter Sisulu, 77, the liberation organization's former secretary-general, conferred by phone with the A.N.C.'s exiled leaders in Lusaka, Zambia. Then he walked across the street to an Anglican church that had been transformed into a meeting hall. Hundreds of supporters were gathered there, celebrating Sisulu's release from prison after serving more than 25 years of a life sentence for sabotage and plotting to overthrow the white government...
...most prominent antiapartheid leaders, the Rev. Frank Chikane, along with Mandela's wife Winnie, quickly called a press conference to dismiss the talks in Cape Town as a "nonevent," an act of "political mischief" staged by Mandela's jailers. In Lusaka, Joe Modise, commander of Spear of the Nation, the guerrilla wing of the A.N.C. that Mandela helped create in 1961, insisted that "only the armed struggle will bring the Boers to negotiations...
...Congress of South African Trade Unions and the banned United Democratic Front, charged that she had "violated the spirit and ethos of the democratic movement" and called on the black community to "distance" itself from her. Though less critical, the exiled leadership of the African National Congress (A.N.C.) in Lusaka said Mandela had made mistakes. Murphy Morobe, a U.D.F. spokesman, said the organizations were particularly outraged "by the reign of terror" conducted by the so-called Mandela United Football Club, a gang of street toughs who live at Mandela's house and act as her bodyguards. The catalyst...
From its headquarters in the Zambian capital of Lusaka, officials of the outlawed A.N.C. charged that the South African government was behind the murder of September, a "colored" (mixed race) native of Cape Town and longtime political activist. Her killing, said A.N.C. Spokesman Tom Sebina, was part of a "new campaign by South African death squads." In Paris French leftists organized a parade of 5,000 marchers in September's honor and led a window-shattering attack on Pretoria's tourist office...
...English speakers tend generally to be more liberal than Afrikaners on racial questions. In September 1985 Relly and a cohort of other corporate leaders voyaged to the Zambian capital of Lusaka to confer with Oliver Tambo, the exiled president of the African National Congress. Relly later declared, "All of us at that meeting wanted to see a new coherent society based on demonstrable justice and a court-monitored bill of rights." Murray Hofmeyr, incoming chairman of the Johannesburg Chamber of Commerce, has called on South African business leaders to oppose injustice. And Michael Rosholt, chief executive of Barlow Rand, South...