Word: unrest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Certainly, South Africa's white rulers, faced with parliamentary protest at home, threats of economic sanctions from abroad and a profound unrest kindled by one of the country's worst recessions in 50 years, seemed increasingly to be on the defensive. Yet, as ever, the more pressure exerted on the leadership, the deeper it dug in its heels, and the more it retreated into kragdadigheid, or a mailed-fist attitude. In an interview on ABC's Nightline program, Botha declared defiantly, "I am going to keep order in South Africa, and nobody is going to stop...
...believe that American corporations are fighting apartheid ("Let's stay in and fight," a member of Harvard's Corporation Committee on Shareholder Responsibility solemnly pronounced not long ago at the Law School), has stated its intention to cooperate with the South African government "in the event of civil unrest," magnanimously suggesting that its "vehicles may be taken over for Civil Defense purposes...
Regardless of the University's reaction to today's protest, we know that only persistent unrest and agitation in the student body will cause a change in Harvard's position. As Frederick Douglass said, "Power concedes nothing without a struggle," a truth attested to not only by the general history of popular movements in our nation, from the Abolitionists to the Civil Rights movement to the movement against the Vietnam War to the women's movement, but from the specific experience of students at Harvard in fighting for divestment...
...black leaders, and so giving rise to a newly militant opposition. Today, after a quarter-century of struggle and despite recent promises of reform by President P.W. Botha, violence still holds sway in the divided land. The killings outside Uitenhage represented the bloodiest single episode since a wave of unrest began sweeping across the country last year. They also triggered more rioting at week's end in nearby townships, where angry mobs killed at least seven blacks they accused of being accomplices of the minority white government. In addition, they set fire to the homes of several black policemen. Five...
...government increased the general sales tax from 10% to 12%, double the level of a year ago. Days later, at Vaal Reefs, the world's largest gold mine, black workers struck for higher pay, in defiance of the mine's management, who insisted that the walkout was illegal. As unrest continued in several black townships, Winnie Mandela, wife of imprisoned Black Leader Nelson Mandela, said in a television interview that she foresaw nothing but more bloodshed: "I am afraid one can only visualize very tragic times ahead of us if the government is not prepared to dismantle apartheid...