Word: suzman
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Despite that failure, many South Africans and foreign observers regard Mandela as the only person who can prevent a race war in his country. "This man is the last hope for a negotiated solution between blacks and whites," says Helen Suzman, the strongest antiapartheid voice in white South Africa...
...personal question. Yes, even in the event that sanctions do work, however unlikely that may be, and when ultimately a Black government does (as it inevitably will) come into power, will the West guarantee to reinvest the money it has withdrawn and restimulate a dying economy? Mark Suzman...
...current state of emergency was declared on June 12. Some critics claimed that the real number of detainees was closer to 12,000, but the official figure was high enough to prompt an outcry from the small parliamentary opposition. The list, declared the Progressive Federal Party's Helen Suzman, was a "terrifying indictment of the government's inability to maintain law-and-order...
However much Suzman's gibe may have irritated South Africa's whites and enraged her Nationalist opponents, it was essentially accurate. While the country's whites are not so isolated as they used to be now that bombs are going off every day or so in one or another of the biggest cities, the very geography of apartheid has long and effectively separated whites and blacks. Whites are not only physically removed from black residential areas but dangerously isolated from the evidence of mounting black rage...
...even if they wanted one, which most do not. Furthermore, an emigrant is allowed to take no more than $40,000 with him, although he can subsequently withdraw the earnings from any remaining investments in South Africa. Says Frederik van Zyl Slabbert, former parliamentary leader of Helen Suzman's opposition Progressive Federal Party: "The chap with the double garage and two kids in school is going to have to think very hard." Even among those who would like to leave, most seem to have decided that they cannot afford to do so. They stay, but they are worrying more about...