Cracks in Apartheid

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

April 30, 1989

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.

May 7, 1989

Leading South Africa Activist Freed; Thousands Join in Apartheid Protest

Sept. 2, 1989

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.

Sept. 6, 1989

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

Oct. 11, 1989

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

Oct. 30, 1989