News of Africa
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freedom.
equ lity.
ju lice
?
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ta te to
under in­
ure. h t
in nothing
end."
ten­
her
B T 15 It: R.' ha ve
pa: e d, and ap ar th id till
o l uu o n. Vo rs ic r ts
uccc or P. Botha
uirmcd, "Apartheid i. out­
d ted. and it must go." But.
.hort+y fter ard , Borha ex-
ited th pre idency ithout
partheid. And
con ti tution
di a t r. It tripped
fric n of their v tige of
South African citizen hip. I'
Pre ident de KI r' different?
I'm afraid. not.
Soon after clinching the
pre idency form Botha la t
ye r. de lcrk .quirmcd, "I
nd know h r wrong in South
Africa. It' domination of
one group over other groups.
That domination mu t go.
nd ap rtheid mu tend."
But de Klerk him elf be­
e me the leader of "the group
th t domin te the other
group ". And, Jod y. de Kler
doe everything po ible to
delay the democr tiz tion of
South Africa.
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end of
chieved ith ut violence.
But the South Afric n regime
love non-violent oppo ition
bee u e it do � no har t and
en ble the r gime to cling
tenaciou Iy to po er ithout
fe r of eing toppled over.
on-violenc i impracti­
c I ag in t partheid and th
n zi mind.
Have Io rgotten
G ndhi' dour fight against
Boer raci m at the turn of the
century? Gandhi', fight
through tyagraha (sp ir i t
po er) failed to ehan c the
Boers.
It only engendered pa ive
re i tence into. the Afric n
Ie der nd A C. S ty graha
turned BI c lead r into
nd martyr bent on
p ivc re I uc ncc , a' op-
po ed to violence.
Thus, African leader, im­
bu d i th the �pi ri 1 of non­
violence came Into being.
Ii c. R v . Albert Luthuli.
1960 ohel Pe ce Prize
1 ureate and last A C prcsi­
de nt of A C he fore I t� han­
ning. Yes, sat auraha failed
to Change the Afri caner 'tal-
arts of racial segregation. It
only rru de the Afri aner.
more yly and deceptive to
dodge i ucs, as de Klerk i
now doing through his end- .
le "preliminary meetings"
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