So powerful is this impression of the crisis as being mainly humanitarian that some Gulf states felt the need to self-censor their media to keep from being pressed by their own publics to fall out of line with the West. By Scott Peterson. But the kid-glove treatment of the white minority could not go on forever. In a media blitz launched this month to signal a new phase in his government, Mr. Mandela's Cabinet announced a spate of affirmative-action policies in jobs, sports, and land, mineral, and water resources. By Kate Dunn.
Whites consider rugby a last bastion of dominance.
By Kate Dunn.