Word: aggrey
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...restricting black businesses and property rights, thereby fostering the rise of a black middle class. "It hoped the ownership of palatial homes and heavy mortgages would create a class of black people that would have too much to lose to help the masses in the struggle for liberation," says Aggrey Klaaste, editor of the black newspaper Sowetan. "It has not worked out that way. Not at all." On the contrary, the material success of a growing number of blacks has reinforced demands for economic and political freedom by contributing to a sense of pride and rising expectations...
Reverend Kenneth Carstens and African NationalCongress representative Aggrey Mbene also spoke,and several bands, including the HUCTW Pipets andthe reggae band Bim Skala Bim, played during therally...
...ABLE TO KEEP up an oppressive system you have to plug up the loopholes," Aggrey Klaaste, Nieman Fellow says. As news editor of one of South Africa's three Black papers, the Johannesburg Post, Klaaste's job is finding the holes the government hasn't closed. With the barrage of legislation restricting press freedom, it is a difficult and dangerous assignment. For Klaaste it has also become a mission...