Word: mandelas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Among Vlok's targets were the United Democratic Front, the large antigovernment umbrella organization with more than 600 township affiliates claiming 2 million members nationwide; the Azanian People's Organization, an all-black radical group; the Detainees Parents' Support Committee; the Release Mandela Committee; and several youth and civic groups. Vlok claimed that he was taking action against those "who persist in promoting a revolutionary climate," but the decree in effect outlaws almost all extraparliamentary protest by blacks, even if it is nonviolent. Said Azhar Cachalia, the U.D.F. treasurer: "The government has declared war against all peaceful opposition...
...present truce between the black revolutionary movement and the black middle class is not without precedent. The founders of the now outlawed African National Congress were professionals, teachers and churchmen who lobbied for civil rights in white-ruled South Africa 75 years ago. Later A.N.C. leaders such as Nelson Mandela, Oliver Tambo and Walter Sisulu were members of a black middle-class community that challenged the apartheid government after...
According to Elizabeth Sherman, Director of the Women in Government Program at Boston College, Bolling has lost support from Boston's Black community because he is not progressive enough. "He did not support Mel King and [a move to rename the Roxbury district] Mandela. He really has not done any political log-rolling," she said...
...went to jail and for which the ANC stands," he declared, "I still embrace." The next day the government "banned" Mbeki, forbidding the South African press to quote him. Nonetheless, his release could not help fueling speculation that other jailed ANC figures might also be freed -- perhaps including Nelson Mandela, the group's guiding spirit...
...government is weakened, it remains far more powerful than any Black groups, "which have very few resources to induce the government to negotiate seriously." Secondly, he does not see adequate "organizational coherence on both sides." In particular, he does not believe that even African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela, were he freed from the prison where he has spent the last 25 years, could "deliver the Black community." (19) Thus, at the national level, he sees no one willing to negotiate for whites, and no one who could negotiate for Blacks. Even if negotiations happened, he fears that neither group...