Word: anti-apartheid
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Until the early 1950s, some colored men who qualified because of education and property ownership could vote for white candidates in the South African Parliament. Their franchise ended in 1956; aware that coloreds tended to vote for the anti-apartheid opposition, the National Party changed the constitution to remove them from the voters' rolls. In 1964 the Colored Persons' Representative Council was established; it has no parliamentary powers but is answerable to a white Cabinet minister. Its chief function is to assist in administering housing, health and social welfare policies for coloreds...
Five out of six times, Harvard failed to support anti-apartheid shareholder resolutions that would have forced companies to withdraw or stop expanding their operations in South Africa...
Throughout the spring, Stanford University students have actively opposed the administration's policies on South African investment. Last week, 300 Stanford students were arrested during demonstrations protesting the university's refusal to support an anti-apartheid stockholders' resolution at the Ford Motor Company's annual meeting. In recent months, students have mounted protests similar to the Hampshire and Stanford demonstrations at campuses throughout the country, including at the University of Connecticut, Berkeley, and the University of Illinois...
...Pogrund, an associate editor of South Africa's leading white liberal paper who spent six months working for The Boston Globe this year, said this fall that most newspaper censorship in South Africa has been internal. Members of the press must clear stories the regime considers either controversial or anti-apartheid with government representatives...
Boraine, a member of the anti-apartheid Progressive Reform Party, said that the government has issued threats over the last few months that unless the press performed more self-censorship, the regime would crack down on all newspapers...