Word: african
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...entrenching apartheid as the Group Areas Act, the Population Registration Act and the move to give blacks voting rights in so-called black homelands rather than in South Africa proper. He has committed what many Afrikaners consider an act of treason by holding discussions with officials of the outlawed African National Congress, which calls for the end of white rule...
Democracy seems only to be in Colman Mockler's heart when it comes to razors. He has no problem with trying to snatch a bigger share of the world's $2.4 billion razor market for himself. Or with owning a South African subsidiary. Or with serving as one of seven people who as the Harvard Corporation can make any decision they want to about this university without being accountable to anyone...
...more serious note, however, since Mobuto took power in 1965. Zaire's government has been stable. Zaire has not been wracked by the constant civil war that has plagued other African nations...
Just the week before, Japan declared a total ban on ivory imports. The country's ivory carvers have traditionally been the most avid consumers of tusks taken from African elephants. But in recent years, concerned that the rapid depletion of elephant herds could mean the end of their ancient trade, the carvers have agreed to ever tightening import restrictions. Now Tokyo has decided to halt all shipments indefinitely and let the carvers work from ivory stockpiles...
...WHITE SEASON. A polite white liberal turns radical after confronting the brutality of South African racism. Drama that couples the pulse of popular fiction with a jolt of moral outrage...