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The article focuses on issues related to South Africa's liberation movement. The deprivations of Blacks in the face of an abundance of cultural riches delivered to Whites has finally created the most disruptive, sustained, nationwide protest campaign in apartheid's history. The official banning of the African National Congress has forced the organization to internationalize its strategy on both the diplomatic and the military front; the imprisonment of authentic Black leaders has made their situation synonymous with the social enslavement of Black people, and thus has brought worldwide support for liberation.

The article presents discussion on various developments in the U.S. and other countries as of April 14, 1994. The national elections in South Africa was affected due to maladministration. Voting could not take place at nearly 30 percent of the stations in some regions, and there was a serious shortage of paper ballots. The mood country wide was peaceful, festive and in some areas jubilant, but more often serious and appropriately solemn. It was as if all South Africans were voting for the first time in their lives.

Focuses on black resistance to apartheid policies in South Africa. Optimism that results from direct confrontation with the oppressor; Resistance to emigration; Roles of white left-wing extremists in black trade-unions.

The article discusses the issue of apartheid with reference to South Africa in particular. The hope is that a victory against apartheid in South Africa can be shared by others similarly oppressed. There is a worldwide apartheid that expresses on a grand though less obvious scale the prejudices, the priorities and the restrictions of the diabolical model developed in Pretoria. A "White" minority controls the wealth, monopolizes the weapons and determines the crucial policies for a dark majority of the earth.