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- <text id=89TT2500>
- <title>
- Sep. 25, 1989: World Notes:South Africa
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Sep. 25, 1989 Boardwalk Of Broken Dreams
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 41
- World Notes
- SOUTH AFRICA
- No More Sjamboks
- </hdr><body>
- <p> Of all the ugly images of apartheid, the one that will not
- fade from the minds of horrified television viewers around the
- world is the recurrent scene of helmeted policemen lashing black
- protesters with menacing whips. Admitting that the image problem
- was a primary concern, the South African government announced
- last week that police would no longer use the 3-ft.-long hard
- rubber whips, known as sjamboks. Acting President F.W. de
- Klerk, who will be sworn in for a full five-year term this week,
- followed up with a still bolder gesture. Though all outdoor
- rallies are banned under the state of emergency, he granted
- permission for protests in major cities across South Africa and
- ordered police to stand back.
- </p>
- <p> In the largest antiapartheid demonstration in 29 years,
- more than 20,000 people, mostly black and mixed race, marched
- without incident in the southern city of Cape Town. Said De
- Klerk: "The door to a new South Africa is open."
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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