Word: protestation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...diversity was evident in class as well as culture. In the '60s hard hats were all too often on the sidelines taunting "unpatriotic" protesters. This spring many of the demonstrators wore union insignia. The staunchly conservative AFL-CIO hierarchy urged its members to boycott the rally, but five of the six largest unions in the federation endorsed the protest, and union members were heavily represented. Some observers estimated that as many as a third of the marchers were union members...
...majority were allowed to vote, according to a poll by Johannesburg's largest black newspaper, the Sowetan, the winner by a substantial margin would be Nelson Mandela, an imprisoned leader of the outlawed African National Congress (A.N.C.) whose wife Winnie has become an international symbol of protest. Barred from the ballot, the blacks turned to another kind of action last week in one of the worst outbursts of violence since a state of emergency was declared last June...
...Terre Blanche that advocates total racial separation, will not field candidates in the election. "If the Nationalist government comes back into power," predicted an antigovernment campaigner at a multiracial Cape Town rally this month, "we will take this as a signal that you have rejected our path of peaceful protest." He warned of violence "on a scale never seen before...
...Soweto, anonymous pamphlets called for a three-day general work stoppage to protest municipal police actions against rent-strikers. Thousands stayed home from jobs and school, some out of fear. Black militants stoned buses until all bus and taxi service between Soweto and Johannesburg temporarily shut down...
Violence has become commonplace in South Africa as more and more blacks have concluded that they have no other way to protest against the apartheid government. And although Botha at his campaign rallies cries defiance and declares he will never compromise on racial segregation in government, housing and education, many embattled Afrikaners know that change is inevitable. "People are really concerned about the choices they must make," says one senior campaign staffer. "Angst is an Afrikaner growth industry...