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- <title>
- Nov. 27, 1989: World Notes:South Africa
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Nov. 27, 1989 Art And Money
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 55
- World Notes
- SOUTH AFRICA
- Equality at Water's Edge
- </hdr><body>
- <p> South Africa's relatively few remaining segregated beaches
- are among the targets of the three-month-old "defiance campaign"
- being waged by black activists. But when State President F.W.
- de Klerk last week called on municipalities throughout the
- country to integrate their beaches, it was less a response to
- those protests than another move to make good his election
- promise of change.
- </p>
- <p> De Klerk also called for chucking the Separate Amenities
- Act, a pillar of apartheid since 1953 that has given local
- authorities the power to keep blacks out of selected parks,
- libraries, swimming pools and other public facilities. He is
- given a strong chance of winning repeal of the law when
- Parliament reconvenes next Feb. 2. De Klerk's moves were in
- keeping with his gradualist approach to reducing racial
- discrimination. He made no mention of changing laws that
- maintain segregation in most schools and housing.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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