Word: white-supremacist
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...South African elections there is never any doubt about the outcome. The all-white electorate troops to the polls and votes overwhelmingly for the Afrikaner-dominated, white-supremacist National Party, just as it has seven times since 1948. Last week's parliamentary election seemed to be no exception: the Nationalists ran up a familiar landslide among the 1.5 million voters, winning 131 of the 165 seats at stake. But this time there were significant differences. There was an overriding issue-the extent and pace of racial reform. There were defections from the ruling party, to both the left...
...stance toward Africa has been one of most hotly debated aspects of its emerging foreign policy. Thus, it seemed like a sound idea to send Chester Crocker, who was recently designated as Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, on an extensive tour of both black Africa and white-supremacist South Africa. As it turned out, however, he encountered a bumpy reception in both camps. The rebuffs dramatized the difficulty of the Reagan Administration's attempt, as Crocker put it, to "walk the line" between South Africa and its hostile neighbors...
Some people have complained that casting a black Caliban is a racist act and turns the play into a white-supremacist tract. They need to examine the play more carefully. For one thing, King Alonso is on his way home from marrying his daughter to an African king. More important, Caliban is far from the most evil character in the play. It is true that he has tried to ravish Prospero's daughter, but he was not born to reason or to know right from wrong; he is not immoral, but amoral. It is also true that he plans...
Whether Smith survives at all, in fact, may very well depend on South Africa's Prime Minister John Vorster, his old white-supremacist ally. Vorster is himself under increasing pressure to find an equitable solution to Pretoria's jurisdiction over the disputed territory of South West Africa (Namibia) and to assuage his own black majority. After Pretoria's military misadventure in Angola, South Africans are chary of being sucked into another no-win situation. Vorster's response to the "state of war" last week was cautious, and he carefully avoided taking sides. But South Africa...
...makes you feel any better ..." If Mehring were simply the small-Boer caricature suggested by such blather, The Conservationist would be a cheap shot indeed. Instead, South African Author Nadine Gordimer, 51, makes him a human and nuanced advocate of the very thing her ten previous books opposed: the white-supremacist policy of apartheid...