Word: antiapartheid
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...vote in the 1981 national elections, is not represented in Parliament. Even further right is a small (estimated supporters: 5,000) faction that calls itself the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (Resistance Movement). Members of the group have been convicted of terrorism for planning to blow up multiracial hotels and "eliminate" black antiapartheid activists...
Liberal whites also voiced distress at the Sanlam bombing. "There can be only total condemnation," declared Helen Suzman, an opposition member of Parliament and a long-standing antiapartheid activist. The financial daily Business Day predicted that the blast had destroyed chances for peaceful negotiations between the A.N.C. and the government. More-over, the paper said, the prospects for the release of imprisoned A.N.C. Leader Nelson Mandela "have faded...
...Methodist Church in a comfort able all-white neighborhood of Port Elizabeth. Together they sang freedom songs and prayed for a more peaceful future. For black and white South Africans, it was an unusual display of racial harmony. The occasion: the funeral of Molly Blackburn, a leading white antiapartheid activist who was killed in an automobile crash...
...Monday the trial of 16 prominent members of the United Democratic Front, a large antiapartheid movement, resumed. The treason case was said to be the country's biggest political trial since Nelson Mandela, leader of the outlawed African National Congress (A.N.C.), was imprisoned for life in 1964. A few days before the latest trial began, Victoria Mxenge, a prominent black lawyer who was to have helped defend the 16, was shot to death by four unidentified blacks as she was about to enter her home outside Durban. Black leaders blamed the government, while the authorities said the slaying...
Nearly 7,000 people have been detained by South African security forces this year. More than half have been freed, but at least five antiapartheid activists released last week found that the efforts to silence them did not end with detention. The group includes four whites and an Indian member of the executive board of the multiracial United Democratic Front. By the terms of their release, they have been effectively barred from leaving Johannesburg and from political activities. The Detainees' Parents Committee, which monitors detentions, denounced the curbs as "banning through the back door." Seven other former detainees appealed...