Word: africanization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...student group formed to aid Black South African schools met for the first time last night.About 20 members of Aid to South African Students (ASAS) heard a description of those schools' inadequacies from Saths Cooper, president of the South African Zanani Movement (SAZM). Cooper said his group represents about three-quarters of Black South African students studying in the United States...
...square name is Francis Morgan Thompson. "Daley" is a corruption of Ayodele, an African endearment bestowed by his Nigerian father and mispronounced by his Scottish mother. It means "joy enters the house." "That was the only thing," in Thompson's bittersweet estimation, "that they got absolutely right." His London childhood was something out of Thackeray, not Dickens, though classic shadows like boarding schools were involved. "Since forever, I always thought I was going to be the best in the world at something. My school friends used to laugh at me, but I kept searching for the thing that would express...
Michael Lambert, a Ph.D candidate in Anthropology, will leave on October 31 for the West African country of Senegal, where he will investigate the effects of seasonal, educational and labor migration between rural villages and urban centers on the Boulouf-Diola people of the Basse-Casamance region...
...effort to stem the flow of nonwhites into the cities, President Botha last month introduced five new housing-related bills, which were described by the South African weekly Financial Mail as "the government's most regressive political step since Botha became National Party leader eleven years ago." The bills would provide for compulsory eviction of squatters and the destruction of their shacks; government-ordered improvements in gray-area buildings, which could be used to force blacks to move out; and stiff penalties for squatters and landowners who tolerate them...
...South African law recognizes only one plea for draft exemption: religious pacifism. In July a Johannesburg student, David Bruce, 25, took his case to court, becoming the first draftee to argue that he could not enter the army because it upheld an illegal racist system. Bruce was sentenced to six years. Two weeks later, 142 university graduates and students declared that they would refuse to accept induction or, if they had already served their initial two years, to report for further active duty. The End Conscription Campaign, which advocates working in hospitals and performing other types of community service...