Word: anti-apartheid
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...certain: neither Robert Conway nor anyone else has the right to assume that they know better how to solve the problems of Black South Africans than do the Black South Africans themselves. Unfortunately, this is apparently what Mr. Conway has done, since nearly every Black leader, liberation organization, and anti-apartheid group in South Africa has unequivocally advocated divestiture of U.S. corporations and banks from South Africa. Many of these groups, including the ANC and SWAPO, have frequently--and recently--sent representatives to Harvard to urge the Harvard community to push for divestiture. Our actions are governed, therefore...
When the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), as part of its opposition to Western support of Israel, instituted its oil embargo against the West, it sought support from other international groups. An informal working alliance developed in the United Nations between anti-Israeli Arabs and the anti-apartheid forces of Black Africa. The result was a two-pronged attack against Israel and South Africa...Throughout the 1960s Israel pursued an active policy of friendship with Black Africa, and offered technical and economic aid...After the emergence of the alliance between Black Africa and the Arab world in 1973, however...
With the collapse of colonial rule in Angola, Mozambique, and the white settler government in Rhodesia, the time for change in South Africa began running out. The constitutional reform, if passed today, will not weaken the anti-apartheid struggle for long. Already the African National Congress (ANC), a movement dedicated to the anti-apartheid struggle, has stepped up bomb attacks on South African military holdings...
...This is aimed at weakening and diluting the anti-apartheid struggle," Makatini explained. "It is not a reform. It is an effort to expand the political base so that Coloreds and Indians can be used for compulsory military conscription, to feed the small while South African army...
Neverthless, there is some coordinator-at Williams and elsewhere-among supporters of anti-apartheid actions. While advocates of divestiture at Harvard fasted last month. Several students at Williams also staged brief "sympathy fasts." Students at Columbia University also staged a candlelight vigil in support of the Harvard hunger strikers at the time. Columbia Faculty senate that the university divest from all companies conducting business in South Africa...