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Article: Odd men out in the new South Africa. (mixed-race South Africans stage political demonstrations)
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- U.S. News & World Report
- Article date:
- June 9, 1997
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"We weren't white enough in the old regime, and now we're not black enough." Basil Douglas's ironic complaint reflects one of the oddest legacies of South Africa's decades of apartheid rule. Three years after they won their freedom, the 3.6 million South Africans of mixed race, whom the country's white-minority rulers labeled "coloreds," have become democracy's discontents. Convinced that the government of President Nelson Mandela is advancing the black majority at their expense, coloreds have taken to the streets in violent protests reminiscent of the 1980s riots in black townships. Colored students protesting teacher cutbacks have halted classes by erecting barricades of ...
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