Word: natale
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Elsewhere, sporadic violence punctuated the event. Mobs attacked bus drivers and taxi owners who refused to stay off the road: dozens of buses were stoned and fire bombed. One fire-bomb victim died in Natal province, where police reported eleven deaths during the three days...
...schoolchildren that Sarafina! depicts, and for all the agony of apartheid that its players have experienced, America, in its midtown-Manhattan incarnation, seems far from utopian. "Before I came, I thought the U.S. would be like a small heaven," said Thandani Mavimbela of Hlabisa, a rural village in Natal province. "I thought it would be like on TV -- The Boat of Love. Love Boat? Or Dallas. But then you see places like Harlem. I was shocked. The empty, burned buildings. On Broadway, very poor people sleeping on the street. In South Africa, when I was hungry and far away from...
...issue has provoked a backlash among white residents on the Natal and eastern Cape coasts. Many are supporting the rightist Conservative Party, which now forms the official opposition in the whites-only legislative House of Assembly. To buttress their case that segregation must be maintained in traditionally white bathing areas, the Conservatives point to "uncivilized" behavior by blacks, including topless bathing by black women, a practice that is anathema to many whites...
...balance to the piece. And Ringwald, in a hospital scene with her mom, proves she can still deliver the best movie tantrums since Margaret O'Brien hit puberty. It is possible that this Two Kids and a Baby will win audiences who went for last year's flock of natal-attraction movies. But Molly Ringwald still has to wonder: Will they love me for keeps the way they did when I was in the Pink...
...surprisingly, given who drew them up, theIndaba proposals (thus far rejected by the centralgovernment) suggest precisely the kind of outcomethat Huntington advocated in 1981: this is theleading consociational plan for South Africa. Itwould create a regionally autonomous governmentfor a combined Natal Province and Kwazulu, withtwo houses of parliament. One chamber would beelected at large, with universal adult franchise.But the other chamber would be formed throughracially-divided voters' rolls, with 10representatives for each racial or language groupand a final category for people choosing to vote a"nonracial" roll. Each separate bloc of Afrikaans,English, Zulu, Asian and 'non-racial'representatives would...