Word: anti-apartheid
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...sure, that conditioning began under apartheid. For many years, violence in the townships was understandable; it escapes no one that the hot spots of anti-immigrant brutality today were the furnaces of anti-apartheid rebellion two decades ago. More than one African government has pointed out that since South African rebels were then given safe harbor in neighboring countries, the millions of foreign Africans now in South Africa might reasonably expect the favor would be returned today...
...past year. And writers trying to make sense of that violent social landscape are turning increasingly to the crime genre. During the apartheid years, most would have found it unconscionable to write from a pro-police point of view, but the demise of apartheid has changed the equation. One of the new crime authors, Andrew Brown, whose Coldsleep Lullabye won the 2006 Sunday Times Literary Award for Fiction, was repeatedly arrested during the 1980s as a militant anti-apartheid activist. Twenty years on, he is a police reserve officer...
...happened, that was the largest single demonstration during my time at Harvard—nothing in our four years quite matched it. But I watched the anti-apartheid movement soldier on, sitting mostly on the sidelines as befits a newspaper reporter. And I watched in the years that followed, when the hero of that movement, Nelson Mandela, in fact turned out to be one of the few great giants of the twentieth century. (It’s still embarrassing to remember that the wise men of the College, President Derek C. Bok chief among them, placed their bets instead...
...demonstrated time and again that he is prepared to destroy the country rather than give up power. South Africa, the big brother of the region, is the key to change. But President Thabo Mbeki has been afraid to touch Mugabe, who is still seen as a hero of the anti-apartheid struggle in southern Africa. Among the poor and landless in South Africa, Mugabe's seizure of white farms went down well. Afraid of lighting a fire in his own country, Mbeki sits on his hands and will take a proactive role only if Zimbabwe collapses into civil...
Lois E. Murphy ’84, a candidate for Congress in Pennsylvania, was another HLS student present at the 1985 anti-apartheid protest, according to Anderson...