Word: antiapartheid
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...deaths of the two civil rights crusaders were a serious loss for the liberal opposition movement. Some antiapartheid activists openly wondered about the possibility of foul play. Both Blackburn and Bishop had been targets of harassment and death threats from angry whites who considered them traitors. In 1985 Bishop's car was fire bombed. Nonetheless, Bishop's wife and Blackburn's sister, both of whom survived the crash, told relatives that the collision appeared to be a genuine accident...
Reacting to the pressure, the Lesotho government agreed last week to begin negotiations on a security pact that the South Africans have sought for the past four years. But even if it leads to a crackdown on antiapartheid activists in Lesotho, the agreement is unlikely to end the violence. Despite similar pacts with Mozambique and Swaziland, the A.N.C. tripled its attacks in South Africa last year...
...Washington, the Reagan Administration hailed the proposed reforms as a "major milestone on the road away from apartheid." But public reaction inside South Africa was mixed. Business groups and other moderates cheered the news. The government's actions, said John Kane-Berman, director of the antiapartheid South African Institute of Race Relations, rank along with the legalization of black trade unions in 1979 as "the most important reform in South Africa since World War II." Many black activists, on the other hand, viewed the measure--welcome as it is--as too little, too late. "Apartheid cannot be reformed," says Patrick...
...Town, the 1984 Nobel laureate and outspoken critic of the government's policies: Blacks must "be aware of the small print. Some form of influx control may be brought in through the back door." Tutu's concerns were further aggravated later in the week when security officials detained his antiapartheid colleague Bishop Sigisbert Ndwandwe, a black, charging him with inciting public violence...
...government decreed that the United Democratic Front, a multiracial antiapartheid group with perhaps 2 million supporters, will henceforth be barred from receiving overseas aid. Pretoria accuses the U.D.F., whose leading members include Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Imprisoned African Nationalist Nelson Mandela, of being a mouthpiece for the African National Congress and the South African Communist Party, both of which are banned. In fact, the U.D.F. has become the recognized platform for a wide range of black and liberal-white opinions. About half its present funds, which cover the legal costs of hundreds of officials and supporters...