The centerpiece of the effort is a "declaration of commitment by white South Africans," formally presented today as South Africa celebrated its annual Reconciliation Day.
Monis had forced hostages to stand pressed against the plate-glass window of the café, holding up a black banner with the Islamic declaration of faith in white Arabic script.
In 1976, he was present during the Soweto uprising, a student revolt spurred by the government's declaration that Afrikaans, the language of white Afrikaners, would be the mandatory language of school instruction.
There are personal touches too - like the Declaration of Independence that Ms. White framed and hung in one office, and the plants that are lending color to the halls.
In Rhodesia, the 1965 Unilateral Declaration of Independence by the white minority resulted in a civil war that lasted until the Lancaster House Agreement of 1979, which set the terms for recognised independence in 1980, as the new nation of Zimbabwe.
In Dec., 1965, Tanzania broke off diplomatic relations with Britain over British failure to act to end the unilateral declaration of independence by the white-minority gov't. in Rhodesia.
Following the Unilateral Declaration of Independence by the mostly white minority government of Rhodesia (or Southern Rhodesia) from the United Kingdom in 1965, the southern African country entered a period of international isolation as an unrecognised state under Ian Smith.
Over time, however, the design drew criticism because the display of a broad field of white could be misinterpreted as a declaration of surrender.
Andre Visagie, a senior member of the group, known as AWB, said the slaying of its leader, Eugene TerreBlanche, "is a declaration of war" by blacks against whites in South Africa.
Class for Mr Brown is a bit like immigration for the Tories: the people who are pleased to hear him talk about it were already listening to him.So rather than being a formidable barrage, Mr Brown's double declaration of war looks instead like a white flag: an admission that he urgently needs to shore up Labour's core vote.
Moscow marked the southern African nation's return to the Olympics after 16 years; as Rhodesia it had been excluded from the 1968, 1972 and 1976 Games for political reasons following the mostly white government's declaration of independence from Britain in 1965.
