Word: antiapartheid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mandela's prison dialogue with the government on one side and antiapartheid forces on the other is making him ever more indispensable in efforts to bridge the gap between the country's 5 million whites and 26 million blacks. "He is the man who can create a basis upon which the authorities and the liberation movement can come to terms," says Yusuf Cachalia, a veteran antiapartheid activist...
...late afternoon eight years ago, Griffiths Mxenge, a well-known black lawyer and antiapartheid campaigner in the city of Durban, was driving home when he stopped to help four men whose pickup truck had apparently broken down. According to an affidavit given to the police, the men abducted Mxenge, drove him to a field outside a nearby soccer stadium, stabbed him repeatedly and then left him to die in a pool of blood...
JOHANNESBURG--Antiapartheid leaders Sunday announced a militant strategy of civil disobedience and political pressure and urged South African whites to join them for the "final onslaught on apartheid...
...firm basis was established for the political direction of all antiapartheid forces well into the 1990s, the decade of the final onslaught against apartheid," he said...
...president's movement away from the hard-liners may be eased by recent reports that a police hit squad was responsible for the deaths of antiapartheid activists over the past decade. In one such case, assassins were told by police to kill a lawyer with ANC ties. His widow, also an activist, was stabbed to death a few years later...