Word: antiapartheid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most prominent antiapartheid leaders, the Rev. Frank Chikane, along with Mandela's wife Winnie, quickly called a press conference to dismiss the talks in Cape Town as a "nonevent," an act of "political mischief" staged by Mandela's jailers. In Lusaka, Joe Modise, commander of Spear of the Nation, the guerrilla wing of the A.N.C. that Mandela helped create in 1961, insisted that "only the armed struggle will bring the Boers to negotiations...
Filling that void is the mission of South Africa Now, a privately funded half-hour TV-magazine show that strives to keep the spotlight on southern Africa. The weekly broadcast is produced by Globalvision, a small independent production company, with the Africa Fund, an antiapartheid organization. Launched last April, the show airs on about 45 broadcast and cable stations across the U.S. Says Globalvision's vice president, Rory O'Connor: "We saw a need for a program on South Africa and decided to jump in both feet first...
Since television has tended to define the South Africa story in terms of violent conflict, South Africa Now tries to offer a broader perspective. The show routinely taps the antiapartheid vein that runs through the work of such South African artists as Hugh Masekela, Miriam Makeba and the country's hot multiracial band Savuka. Its more reportorial pieces have documented the detention and alleged torture of black children, analyzed the causes of black- on-black violence, aired footage of the war in Angola and exposed the activities of the White Wolves, a right-wing terrorist group. Critics charge that...
...grande dame of the South African revolution, a worthy surrogate for her husband Nelson, the imprisoned black nationalist leader. But Winnie, 52, was a strong, willful person who said and did what she liked. She stirred resentment by ignoring the counsel of other black leaders and the policies of antiapartheid organizations...
That resentment inevitably turned to anger, and last week Winnie Mandela was publicly read out of the antiapartheid movement. At a press conference in Johannesburg, the two largest black antigovernment organizations, the Congress of South African Trade Unions and the banned United Democratic Front, charged that she had "violated the spirit and ethos of the democratic movement" and called on the black community to "distance" itself from her. Though less critical, the exiled leadership of the African National Congress (A.N.C.) in Lusaka said Mandela had made mistakes. Murphy Morobe, a U.D.F. spokesman, said the organizations were particularly outraged...