Cracks in Apartheid

EZAKHIWENI, South Africa -- The valley is eerily quiet.

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- A bespectacled anthropologist, David Webster, concluded a recent paper on repression in South Africa by singling out the “steady tempo” of anti-apartheid activists slain by right-wing death squads.

Leading South Africa Activist Freed; Thousands Join in Apartheid Protest

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- Police using whips and dogs broke up a protest march Tuesday in the sleepy white college town of Stellenbosch, and hundreds of thousands of voteless blacks nationwide began a two-day strike on the eve of elections that will be the most severe test of white support for the government since it came to power 41 years ago.

Apartheid: Government opponents call the promise to release Walter Sisulu, the No. 2 foe of Pretoria’s racial policies, a ‘massive victory.’

South Africa: 70,000 activists welcome freed leaders of the outlawed African National Congress. Speakers call for intensified sanctions.