Word: apartheid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...secretary countered with the sort of arrogance that I had always thought had been the exclusive preserve of the Apartheid-era bureaucrats: "That's just to annoy our American guests," she said. The insult of the picture, coupled with the injury of the secretary's comment, had combined to produce an effect that was perhaps more powerful than she had realized or even intended...
...fusion is not nearly so bizarre as it sounds. Msomi first penned the play 28 years ago in apartheid-riven South Africa, at the urging of a drama professor who suggested that he find a way to showcase and celebrate "the richness of our South African culture" in a format that might easily be understood by the rest of the world. Msomi's epiphany came when he realized that the political background of Macbeth-- the half-mythologized atmosphere of the warring clans of medieval Scotland--was eerily similar to that of the birth of the Zulu nation, united...
...worst human rights abuses of the century. The U.S. must take some of the blame. We supported the Afghan "freedom fighters" in their war against the Soviet Union. A good start at restitution would be the imposition of sanctions against Afghanistan, the kind that finally toppled South African apartheid. And since the Taliban forbids foreign-aid workers to offer assistance to women, U.N. aid ought to be halted in areas held by this vicious regime. I fear, however, that women are still considered second-class citizens in the U.S., as well as in Afghanistan, and the world will...
Although religious discrimination runs rampant in Worcester, apartheid is a shadowy but pervasive force. On the surface, Coetzee's childhood seems free of apartheid's uglier manifestations. Worcester has a small "coloured" population, consisting mainly of domestic servants, and virtually no blacks. What social conflict Coetzee faces from day-to-day appears mostly as class and not racial conflict: Coetzee is embarrassed by his shoes and natty clothes, contrasted with the scraggly appearance of the local Afrikaaners...
Nonetheless, Coetzee suggests, apartheid's insitutionalized system of contradictions was responsible for many of his family's dysfunctions. Blacks are simultaneously revered for their wisdom and treated as pariahs; Jewish doctors are praised, but Jewish conspiracies condemned. It's easy to read Coetzee's internal contradictions as manifestations of apartheid's perverse order...