Word: apartheid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...citizens of Zaire peace and stability for over two decades. In 1983, the President sent Zairian troops to Chad in order to assist the Chadians in their battle against the Libyan army. Recently, President Mobutu has assumed a prominent role in the discussions over the dismantling of the apartheid system in South Africa...
CAPE TOWN, South Africa--Hundreds of Black and mixed-race people declared the end of apartheid on two whites-only beaches Saturday by picnicking, swimming, singing and praying under the watchful eye of the police...
...Apartheid establishes a racially segregated society in which the 28 million Blacks have no vote in national affairs. The 5 million whites control the economy and maintain separate districts, schools and health services...
...Brando's role is surprisingly small. For most of the movie, the action switches back and forth between the repression of Black protest in the town ships and the gradual disintegration of Sutherland's family, most of whom are exasperated by his crusade against apartheid...
...also refrains from the sort of moral harangue which is certainly warranted by apartheid but which might make a less effective movie. In particular, Palcy, who is Black uses moderation in contrasting the affluent white lifestyle so obviously different from the lives led by Blacks...