Word: sisulu
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...football-player big and distinguished looking, has an immobile face that strikes many as stern. He says little but asks pointed questions. His interlocutors say that what impresses them most is his intensity. In his new post, Perkins has had unreported talks with dozens of black leaders, including Albertina Sisulu, co-president of the United Democratic Front, the largest antigovernment group, and Nthato Motlana, chairman of the Soweto Civic Association...
...Sowetan had denounced Perkins for accepting a "racist" appointment based on the color of his skin. A U.D.F. spokesman had said that Perkins should have turned down the job, adding that he would be "most unwelcome" in South Africa. But after two discreet talks with Perkins, the U.D.F.'s Sisulu said, "Now that he is here and willing to help, it is all right. I believe in give-and-take...
...Sisulu is the editor of the bi-weekly newspaper New Nation which is closely tied to the Catholic Church. He is regarded as one of the nation's leading Black journalists...
This weekend, Zwelakhe Sisulu, a fellow from 1984-1985, was arrested by South African security forces during a sweeping new wave of round-ups of journalists, opposition and union leaders and community activists...
...against apartheid that Bok has issued in the past month. In late June, Bok signed a letter supporting Black South African leaders against their country's most recent set of repressive tactics. The following week, he sent an outraged telegram to P.W. Botha protesting the unlawful arrest of Zwelakhi Sisulu, the Black editor of a liberal South African publication and a former Neiman fellow at Harvard...