Word: anti-apartheid
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Born in 1924 in what was then Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). Brutus was raised in South Africa by his white father and Black mother, both of whom were schoolteachers. After graduating from college, he worked as a teacher, journalist, and anti-apartheid activist until his arrest in 1963 for violating a government "banning order" that prohibited him, among other things, from attending any meetings. He had gone to a gathering of the South African Olympic Committee as part of his long effort to isolate the country in the sports world...
...even if his demands are not heard in corporate boardrooms, his work is well appreciated by other anti-apartheid activists. "He's a great human being--what more can I say?" says Jennifer Davis, head of the American Committee on Africa, a public advocacy group. And Salih AbdulRahim of the TransAfrica group, praises his fellow activist for helping people understand complex South Africa-related issues in personal terms...
...bread a commitment made four years ago to the Harvard community and the Black majority in South Africa. In response to sustained mass student protest, the University agreed in 1978 to automatically divest its debt securities in banks making direct loans to the South African government. At the time, anti-apartheid activists, including myself, viewed this reform as a disappointing minimalist concession...
...very ineffectiveness of anti-apartheid protests ironically is one of the most potent arguments against immediate majority rule in South Africa, desirable as it is in the long run. Both the Afrikaners and the Blacks are intractable in their opposition to sharing power. Like two huge boulders pressed against one another, each refuses to budge. Only tremendous violence will break the impasse and bring immediate majority rule. Yet such revolution would only blow each boulder asunder--polarizing the races more than ever...
...visiting professor at Amherst College has charged that political factors are behind a deportation order he received from the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS). Dennis V. Brutus, a Black anti-apartheid activist and exiled South African poet, will go to court Tuesday to seek a suspension of the order...