Word: apartheid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While some work in South Africa did occur in the 1980s and earlier, it tended to focus on the problems of apartheid and on strategies for the country's future, said Robert I. Rothberg, development associate at the Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID...
...Research continued, but it was certainly anti-apartheid oriented," he said...
...apartheid system began to unravel in the early 1990s, students activists--and the ACSR--began to shift their attention away from Harvard's investments in South Africa...
...feeling of many Faculty members is that this is a country that has gone through extreme trials and tribulations and has emerged from apartheid in a bloodless way," he said
...president of the African National Congress, Mandela led a protracted battle against the apartheid regime of South Africa, an ugly remnant of colonial imperialism. Today Harvard honors him for his personal sacrifices in the name of freedom--among them the 27 years he spent imprisoned. The eventual success of his efforts is a testament to the fire of his determination, the strength of his character and the justice of his cause...