Word: segregationism
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President F.W. de Klerk promised major changes in apartheid last week -- but not yet in the system's mainstays. The reformist politician said he would pursue repeal of the Separate Amenities Act, a 1953 law that provides for segregation of public facilities. Disappointingly, De Klerk pledged reform but not repeal...
But ethnic club supporters deny the charges of self-segregation by emphasizing that the purpose of the clubs is to promote ethnicity.
. indicates that it will repeal the Group AreasAct, which mandates segregation in neighborhoodsand towns;
What the carefully coded words mean, in effect, is a system of separate but equal parliaments, neighborhoods and schools, a form of private rather than government segregation. At the local level, the group-rights concept would permit whites to live much as they do now. At the national level, it...
The white community is also divided. Polls indicate that De Klerk is slightly ahead of the white population at large in pushing for reform. Fully 31% of whites voted for the breakaway Conservative Party, the bastion of the verkramptes, or ultraconservatives. They object to any form of power sharing and...