A Stern Line on Race and Politics. South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa is the frontman for a party that has lost its moorings. Keeping the African National Congress together is proving an increasing headache in the post-apartheid state.

“I spent a good part of my childhood telling myself lies about race,” he told the Columbia, SC, newspaper The State in 1981. “So I was attuned to how people could deceive themselves about it.”

The series won the 1971 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting; became the basis of a book by Mr. Hoagland, “South Africa: Civilizations in Conflict” (1972); and is widely credited with helping for introduce apartheid for American foreign policy.

South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa is the frontman for a party that has lost its moorings. Keeping the African National Congress together is proving an increasing headache in the post-apartheid state. https://on.ft.com/4bo2pDgD/4bo2pD

想競選總統，。就必須把許多敏感問題交代定位清楚。這在英文用 a stern line表示：靠碼頭的船尾要對齊岸上定點

stern

n. the rearmost part of a ship or boat: he stood at the stern of the yacht.

Stern Line - A docking line leading from the stern .

Definition: A line that runs from the aft end of a boat to a fixed object for the purpose of securing the boat to a mooring.

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More than any other Republican running for president, Rudolph W. Giuliani has confronted the question of race, that most torturous of American legacies.