Word: suzman
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...Suzman says she does not pretend to speak for blacks, but that she has challenged every piece of apartheid legislation brought before Parliament...
...member of the Progressive Federal Party for more than 25 years, Suzman says Western corporations "must stay and be an influence for the positive good" in South Africa by adhering to the Sullivan principles, guidelines proposed by the Rev. Leon Sullivan regulating hiring and employment practices...
Comparing her country to the U.S., Suzman says "South Africa has got to get back to Square One," an open society without compulsory segregation or integration, before any affirmative action programs can be implemented. "We can't even anticipate something like busing--it's a hopeless proposition at this stage...
Emeka Kalu Ezra '81, one of about 30 demonstrators at her speech, says Suzman's program would bring "cosmetic changes" without making any real difference to the black majority...
Aggrey J. Kaalaste, a black South African news editor and Nieman Fellow, says that although "Suzman has fought relentlessly and sincerely against the existing government," he finds her approval of progressive reforms in education and land tenure "misleading and even dangerous because the basic issues that are making blacks unhappy have not even been touched...