Word: zulu
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...DIFFICULT TO call agitprop against South Africa hard-hitting; how many pro-apartheid plays get mounted in the U.S.? But THE SONG OF JACOB ZULU, which Chicago's Steppenwolf troupe brought to Broadway last week, redeems its overlong preachments with Eric Simonson's deft direction and K. Todd Freeman's luminous acting of the title role, especially a final monologue in which he unsentimentally uncorks the rage that drove a minister's son to terrorism. What makes the show unique is the unearthly beauty of a capella songs by Ladysmith Black Mambazo, the group highlighted on Paul Simon's Graceland...
...Africa. When he was a boy, his paternal grandfather, a chemical-company executive, filled his head with great tales about his work and travels throughout the dark continent in the 1920s, while his maternal grandmother, who lived in South Africa, filled his mailbox with wooden spears, shields, even plastic Zulu dolls. When Purvis turned 21, he started out on a year of thumbing across Africa, riding mostly on transport trucks and camping out alone or staying with Peace Corps volunteers. "Back then I made a point of avoiding trouble spots," says Purvis, now 34, who began his tour in Africa...
...face of it, negotiations have broken down over the issue of which political body is to draft the new constitution. The NP, the party of the majority of whites, and the IFP, the Zulu's party, insist that the constitution should be written at Codesa, where each of the three major organizations has an equal...
...Boipatong furor seems to have shaken De Klerk. His security forces moved with uncharacteristic speed in tracking down the suspected killers. Police commissioner Johannes van der Merwe said the preliminary police investigation showed that "certain residents" of a Zulu migrant-workers' hostel were involved but denied that government forces participated. De Klerk also agreed to allow international jurists to join a continuing independent inquiry into the violence. Yet the A.N.C. will expect a more permanent change of attitude on the part of the government toward halting the violence if reform is to have any hope...
...South Africa, collapsed altogether when the African National Congress withdrew from the talks after the Boipatong massacre. The A.N.C. also called for South Africa's team to withdraw from the Olympic Games. The Congress accused the government of negotiating while fostering violence and charged supporters of its rival, the Zulu-dominated Inkatha Freedom Party, with carrying out the massacre with the aid of government security forces. President F.W. de Klerk denied both allegations. But late in the week, a black mine-security guard told a government-appointed commission that police from a former paramilitary unit had joined in the Boipatong...