Word: apartheid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...flaming apostles of apartheid in the Nationalist Party, the Keyser case was terribly embarrassing. All concerned did their best to avoid the public eye. The case was shunted to a remote, dark room in Pretoria magistrate's court; the hearings were held in the late afternoon behind closed doors. But the record of the proceedings reached opposition newspapers, and they splashed the story for South Africans (white) and South Africans (nonwhite) to read...
...South Africa's Parliament last week Opposition Leader Sir De Villiers Graaff called for a vote of no confidence in the government. "Apartheid," he cried, "has become something like Mohammed's coffin suspended between the heaven of total apartheid and the earth of the hard facts of the South African situation, with farmers, industrialists and mining interests demanding more labor...
...black extremism. They have given fewer civil rights to their Africans than either the British in Nigeria (due for Dominion status in 1960) to the northwest or the French in Equatorial Africa across the Congo River. They have never had the racial clashes or race hate that flame in apartheid-cursed South Africa or in British-ruled Kenya. In fact, the only rioting in recent years occurred last summer after a badly refereed soccer game between white and black teams in Leopoldville's big King Baudouin Stadium. Since then, interrace soccer has been banned...
...Last week it announced that some 12,000 Negro garment workers in the for-whites-only classification will "stay away from their jobs" (Negroes are not allowed to "strike" in South Africa) to drive home a hard fact seldom faced by Strydom's fanatics: a strict application of apartheid would paralyze South Africa's economy...
...train if he resists. Even in the darkness of the stations and the roads near by, the Tsotsis wait to attack the worker as he races, blind with fear, from the station to his squalid home. Tsotsism is a problem older than the Boer government's apartheid policy, but apartheid has aggravated...