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Article: Woman's death personalizes South African apartheid. (Claire Stewart)(In Memoriam) (Column) (Obituary)
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- December 10, 1993
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They say that apartheid is dead, is over, a thing of the past. But last month it killed once again.
As it has killed through poverty and parcel bombs, detentions and disappearances since its official founding in 1948. As it has continued to kill every day since South African President F.W. de Klerk made his famous speech on ending apartheid in 1990, every day since Nelson Mandela, as if resurrected from the dead, emerged from prison gates after 19 years in apartheid's gulag.
Western policymakers and corporate heads, shamed into action over the last decade by grassroots demands to isolate apartheid, have eagerly, if belatedly, hitched their wagon to the ...