Word: sisulu
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Jackson was in the country for a twelve-day visit as a guest of the South African Council of Churches and Walter Sisulu, an African National Congress leader who was released last year after 26 years in prison. Jackson has been repeatedly denied visas since his last trip in 1979, when he labeled the government a "terroristic dictatorship...
This time he avoided stirring up controversy. He declined to respond to Botha's charges, and he turned down a request to lead a protest against a visiting English cricket team. Still, black South Africans were unrestrained in their welcome for the American cleric. In Soweto, where he visited Sisulu, Jackson was followed by scores of singing and dancing people who, in addition to their traditional paeans to Mandela and the A.N.C., chanted "Long live Jesse Jackson...
Following De Klerk's election, according to a Cabinet minister, the government's talks with Mandela took on real meaning. In October they worked out the release of eight political prisoners, including Walter Sisulu and other A.N.C. leaders who were convicted along with Mandela in the Rivonia treason trial a quarter-century earlier...