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By NANCY LEHMAN
Staff Writer
The audience laughed when anti-apartheid journalist
Donald Woods apologized for not resembling Kevin
Kline, who portrayed him in the movie Cry Freedom.
Woods, who wrote Biko and Asking For Trouble,
from which Cry Freedom was made, spoke at the
Russell House Ballroom Tuesday night.
"I had a personal reason to rejoice on Saturday
morning when the news came through that I'd been
unbanned after 12 years," Woods said. South African
papers are now allowed to print things Woods says.
Woods was banned as a journalist in South Africa
after printing articles revealing the details of black
leader Steve Biko's death in the hands of the South
African government.
Woods quickly grabbed the opportunity by being
interviewed from Boston by a radio station in
Johannesburg.
"These are truly exciting times," he said.
Woods said he thinks South African President
F. W. de Klerk came to South Africa to tame the National
Congress. "I think he may even end up as our
Gorbachev," Woods said.
Woods also believes that de Klerk will want to
make more radical changes once he sits down with
black leader Nelson Mandela. When de Klerk sits
down with Mandela, he will discover his own country,
Woods said, comparing this to the first time he sat
with Biko.
Woods was not 100 percent anti-apartheid when he
met Biko, he said. However, talking with Biko helped
him turn around completely.
Woods said he was ashamed it took him so long to
turn around in the first place. But, born to racism, he
was taught that it was the natural order of the world.
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Apartheid consists of about 317 racial laws,
said. In recent years, about eight of them hav
dropped.
Also, 32 million blacks in South Africa, whc
up 85 percent of the population, are restricted
percent of the land. The five million whites t
the other 87 percent.
Similarly, the South African government ;
eight times more for a white person's education
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apartheid. The racial categories in South Afri
white, black, colored and Indian. He joked th;
both males and females, they would need eigh
rate bathroom facilities. People would be "ami
the profusion of toilets," he said.
More seriously, he pointed out that South
has an infant mortality rate "on a scale not ex
by third world countries."
Woods described the past months as "fanta
exciting" with the changes de Klerk has made.
He said he did not think President Bush she
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Woods suggested ways for students and ot
help. He urged people to write directly to M
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"Racism may be targeted at blacks, but it
whites, too, very much," Woods said.
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