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...late '70s, liberal white advocates of equal rights for blacks had been overwhelmingly English speaking, led by the likes of Alan Paton, Helen Suzman and Nadine Gordimer. Today younger Afrikaners are taking the lead among whites in the campaign for democracy and racial reconciliation, notably Frederik Van Zyl Slabbert, a brilliant academic and former rugby star; Max du Preez, editor of the crusading paper Vrye Weekblad; and Tian van der Merwe, campaigning to close the gap between white parliamentarians and the A.N.C...
...from antiapartheid god to mortal man was predictable. "When he was still in jail, there was nothing that he could do wrong," says Willie Breytenbach, head of African studies at the University of Stellenbosch. "It is almost as if there has been a decultification of Mandela." Veteran liberal Helen Suzman says Mandela has been hurt by his inability to stop black-on-black violence. "People who were unreservedly delighted at his release have become a little uneasy," she says...
...Toit continues to seek justice on their behalf, he is himself victimized by state terror that is the more frightening because of the bland face with which it covers its institutionalized psychopathy. Du Toit is subjected to steadily escalating harassment. Eventually he loses his job and his wife (Janet Suzman in a good, dour performance), and he must deal with the fact that his daughter is willing to betray him to the police...
...crash in Sioux City, Iowa, and is writing the Milestones section for this issue. Karla Bruner, a University of Missouri at Columbia graduate, has researched stories ranging from Cuba and Argentina to Burma and Greece for our World section. As managing editor of the Harvard International Review, Mark Suzman has come in contact with public figures like Jacques Delors, president of the European Commission. Now Suzman is broadening his experience on our International editions, where he has worked on an article about Gorbachev's trip to West Germany...
...Suzman's retirement will take some steam out of the new Democratic Party, formed last month by the merger of three liberal parties and still unable to agree on a leader. Liberalism has a future in South Africa, says Suzman, but "fundamental changes will take a lot longer than most people think...