Before long, Reverend Banana became enthused with the ideals of liberation politics, and started to denounce the white racist regime of what was then called Southern Rhodesia from the pulpit.

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Mugabe rose to power after ousting the British-backed, white-ruled regime led by Ian Smith.

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Under South Africa's white-minority apartheid regime, Mandela spent 27 years in prison, where he contracted tuberculosis, before being released in 1990.

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The trial is underway of a white doctor who headed the apartheid regime's chemical warfare research programme.

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Besides, congressmen had quickly adjusted to the new regime, and were now lobbying the White House directly to get their pet projects approved.

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The museum does not gratuitously set out to invoke white guilt but it does show how ordinary people accepted the status-quo of Apartheid and that the regime was supported for so long not so much due to extreme ideological conviction but because ordinary white South Africans found it easier to avoid contemplating an alternative.

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For now, White said, the resistance has learned to spot the pro-regime fighters.

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The Water White Paper promises legislation "early in the next Parliament" and a new regime "by the mid to late 2020s" - but critics warn this deadline is too far away.

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Two other U.S. officials told CNN Senior White House Correspondent John King that Aziz may have information about Iraqi financial resources and complexes used by regime officials.

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