Word: antiapartheid
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BORN July 18, 1918 1944 Joins the antiapartheid African National Congress 1962-90 In prison for high treason 1991 Becomes president of A.N.C. 1994 Elected South Africa's President 1999 Retires from presidency
...decision incensed anti-rape activists and further energized a movement already fueled by outrage. "Nowhere since the final days of apartheid has there been greater activism in a national social issue," says Smith, 42, who was an antiapartheid journalist of some repute. "Rape victims are speaking out because we are people, not statistics. We have nothing to be ashamed of. [South Africa is] a so-called moral society that does nothing, that should be filled with shame." Indeed, in a country in which race remains hugely sensitive, the debate centers, surprisingly, not on race but on gender equality. An antirape...
DIED. MARIUS SCHOON, below, right, 61, white South African antiapartheid activist; of lung cancer; in Johannesburg. Schoon was jailed for 12 years for a failed attempt in the '60s to bomb a police building. In 1984 his wife and daughter were killed by a mail bomb sent at the behest of a police official who later admitted to the crime. Said President Nelson Mandela: "He destroyed the myth that all Afrikaners were racists and oppressors...
...such is the efficacy of this symbolic Gandhi that the film, for all its simplifications and Hollywoodizations, had a powerful and positive effect on many contemporary freedom struggles. South African antiapartheid campaigners and democratic voices all over South America have enthused to me about the film's galvanizing effects. This posthumous, exalted "international Gandhi" has apparently become a totem of real inspirational force...
...abuses of apartheid. Many of those providing details are the killers themselves, eager to exchange information for the commission's promises of amnesty. Last month the commission disclosed that applications had been filed by a number of former security policemen in connection with the deaths of at least 10 antiapartheid activists, including Biko, as well as incidents of torture and assault, including the mistreatment of Jones...