Word: apartheid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...main pillars of apartheid still exist in your country. Why do you say that "freedom is on the horizon...
...course of his work, Magubane has frequently felt the brutality of the apartheid laws. He has been arrested several times, was once detained in solitary confinement for 586 days and was also banned for five years, which meant he was prohibited from being with more than one other person at a time and required to report to a police station once a week. From 1969 to 1975, Magubane was forced to quit journalism because of the restrictions imposed by the government...
...sentence in the courtroom that day in June 1964 was life in prison. The verdict of history will hardly judge Nelson Mandela a common criminal. Despite the government's determination to lock him away for good and crush his liberation movement, the unrelenting crusade to abolish apartheid that he waged from a prison cell over the decades made him the supreme symbol of the black struggle in South Africa...
Enter South African Archbishop Desmond M. Tutu--anti-apartheid leader and newly elected member of the Board...
...Overseers asked Tutu to speak about South Africa. He did, and said afterwords that Harvard should adopt a new divestment plan. Under his plan, Harvard would pledge to sell off its remaining stock unless South Africa followed up on its early reform gestures and substantially dismantled the apartheid system...