Word: apartheid
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Critical issues included the war in Vietnam, U.S. involvement in Cambodia, apartheid in South Africa and a stronger Afro-American studies department...
...obvious insight. Certainly, all old institutions are concerned about keeping up a certain image and, more meaningfully, perpetuating their values and traditions. And the student activist movements of the '60s left us with a legacy of questioning University policies, ranging from Harvard's investments in apartheid-era South Africa to the dearth of tenured women and people of color in the ranks of the Faculty...
McQuillen, a social anthropology concentrator, will also spend her summer in South Africa but will investigate the changing lives of workers in the wine industry after apartheid...
...These are quite exciting times to be working in Africa," she said, noting that it was only ten years ago that apartheid reigned in South Africa...
South Africa's break from its apartheid past has not only opened the doors to world recognition; it has also put the country firmly on the international travel map. Newly plunged into global markets, the Cape wine industry has expanded its traditional, highly regulated, conservative marketing base and drawn in Germans, French, Swiss, Italians. Russians and Californians as investors in South African grapes. Some of the leading Cape estates now boast European winemakers; Zelma Long and Phil Freese, well known in Sonoma, Calif., are in a joint vineyard venture with Michael Back, owner of Backsberg, a top South African estate...