Word: segregationism
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Those words would not be particularly surprising if they came from one of the liberal reformers who have long opposed apartheid, South Africa's poisonous system of racial segregation. But they come from Johan Heyns, the new leader of the Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk (N.G.K., the Dutch Reformed Church), for many...
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...
With a defiant mood of apartheid now, apartheid forever, Botha said in a BBC interview that he would never countenance a black majority government, a black head of state or a scrapping of segregation in residential areas. "I am not prepared to sacrifice my rights so that the other man...
The youngest daughter of a Baptist minister, Edelman inherited her sense of mission at an early age. "Helping other people, I did it as a kid like other kids go to the movies," she says. "It is what I was raised to be." When segregation laws prevented blacks in her...
In a more controversial passage, The Solution suggests that "all citizens would have the right to integrate or segregate voluntarily at their own expense." While no laws imposing segregation would be constitutional, neither would any that forced integration. Thus private firms would be free to discriminate. For economic reasons, however...