Word: segregationism
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Most surprised and elated of all by the election results were the leaders of the Conservative Party. The Johannesburg regional chairman, Clive Derby- Lewis, said the party would now demand that the government enforce racial segregation in housing and reinstate the pass laws that restricted the migration of blacks to...
The other major factor Wilson cites is the widening class division between blacks who have escaped the ghetto and those who have not. In what may be the book's most contentious section, he argues that the easing of discrimination against middle-class blacks has contributed indirectly to the desperate...
Central to the illusion of apartheid, as decreed by the major segregation laws of the 1950s, was the fantasy that South Africa's blacks could be legally assigned to ten autonomous tribal homelands and then admitted to white South Africa only as migrant workers, not citizens. The realities of urbanization...
He was better at holding office than seeking it; Ambrose concludes that Nixon "became the most visible Vice President of the 20th century, and the most successful." Indeed, Nixon took principled stands during the late '40s and into the '50s that demanded true courage: he supported the Marshall Plan when...
COVER: The Afrikaners, long linked in upholding apartheid, are united no more As South Africa' s whites head for their first general election in six years, opponents of the country' s system of racial segregation are standing up. Some members of the once nearly monolithic "white tribe" are looking for...