Word: anti-apartheid
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...book The South African Connection, the anti-apartheid author Ruth First writes that "by many South Africans Engelhard is regarded as the savior of the post-Sharpville economy." Individuals of somewhat different political sensibilities hold exactly the same view. Anglo-American, the multibillion dollar conglomerate the dominates the South African economy, offers this official word on Charles Engelhard: "In difficult times, when South Africa was badly in need of capital, Engelhard played a vital and signifigant role in helping to bring it from abroad. He thus not only restored confidence in the country's economy, but actively assisted in boosting...
Americans should express the evils of all colonialism, and fight both modern neocolonialism and the vestiges of its past incarnations. There is ample opportunity to fight both, for example, in Africa today. That is the whole idea of the anti-apartheid movement...
...social and political climate in which the film was made required tremendous intestinal fortitude on the part of Rogosin. Come Back, Africa makes the strongest anti-apartheid statement I have ever seen by letting the horrors of South Africa speak for themselves. For example, the footage of men going to work in the gold mines, or the panoramic shots of the township in which Zachariah finally settles, are memorable. One wonders how the bombed-out townships look today if they looked so god-awful...
Probably the best opportunity to learn about the issues dividing that nation will be a talk given this Sunday by Donald Woods, a South African journalist who is currently at Harvard as a Nieman Fellow. Woods was banned last year by the government of South Africa for his anti-apartheid writings but he managed to escape from the country some months later. Woods will appear at 8 p.m. in the Leverett Dining Hall...
About 200 freshmen attended an introductory meeting of the South African Solidarity Committee (SASC) last night at Sever Quad, where they were urged by SASC members to learn about and participate in the anti-apartheid movement at Harvard...