Word: postapartheid
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DURING ITS 45 YEARS IN POWER, SOUTH AFRICA'S governing National Party has routinely detained, deported and denied blacks their right to vote. Now that it must soon share power with blacks, the white regime is undergoing what one white M.P. sarcastically called a "deathbed conversion." Officials unveiled a postapartheid bill of rights aimed at preventing a black government from ever carrying out similar abuses against the white minority. The African National Congress swiftly denounced the proposal as a blatant move "to protect the haves against the have-nots...
Sisulu also made an appeal to the U.S. for help, particularly in education. "We would like you to help us train our people for the postapartheid period," he said...
...alleged police misconduct against the A.N.C. to testify at a standing government board of inquiry. De Klerk announced that a panel of private citizens would now monitor covert funds, and said he had an "open mind" about a proposed interim government to rule impartially during negotiations on a postapartheid constitution. A.N.C. officials said the moves were insufficient but hinted at a willingness to put the Inkatha affair behind them...
A.N.C. leaders charge that white police have failed to prevent or actually fomented Zulu attacks on A.N.C. supporters, allegedly because the ruling Nationalist Party favors Inkatha as a presumably more pliable partner in a postapartheid government. So the supposedly more militant (indeed communist- allied) A.N.C. has been driven into the ironic position of demanding that the white government protect it from its fellow blacks -- starting with a ban on the Zulus' "cultural" weapons. Zulus say tribal tradition requires them to carry the spears, clubs and battle-axes in public, but the A.N.C. charges that they are being used to kill...
...against apartheid. But at the same time that his legend grows here, the realities of day-to-day political struggle have cut into his popularity at home, even among those whose aspirations he has spent half a lifetime representing. Were he to become the first elected black leader of postapartheid South Africa, the resulting immersion in the messy doings of government could make things still more trying for him. Knowing that he remains a hero in America could help to sustain him if those difficult days ever come...