Word: apartheid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard were to say that it supported apartheid, for instance, just as a very extreme example, that would have incredible repercussions in our particular situatiuon...
...where do we go from here? Mr. De Klerk has not got rid of apartheid. Much of what he has said is a declaration of purpose, of intent. Therefore we will see that sanctions remain in place until certain conditions are met which we believe to be crucial to helping the forces of negotiation...
There is obviously that danger. I hope that the political organizations that have been legalized now will be able to make people more sober in their expectations. I mean, even when apartheid is done away with, people must not expect that suddenly when they were homeless, tomorrow because we were free...tomorrow they will have a house. It is important that our people recognize that we are still going to have to struggle to translate that freedom into tangible results...
...going to need massive injections of investment because of the problems that apartheid has created. I mean the backlog in education, in housing and so forth, and we do want to get money into the economy. So please don't let all your funds go to Eastern Europe...
...situation in South Africa allows Harvard a graceful way to back away from what was a wrong policy," said Robert P. Wolff '54, executive director of the Harvard-Radcliffe Alumni Against Apartheid, which nominated Tutu to the 30-member Board. "It now looks like there is a real possibility of negotiating an end to apartheid, so it's impor- tant that Harvard throw its weight behind thatprospect...