Word: apartheid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...years I was a resident in South Africa, I noted that free markets, population control and a "total" culture were often discussed but never implemented. The wave of sex crimes there reflects apartheid's obsession with status. This society is raping itself into psychological death. The pseudo Utopia of sunshiny materialism under waving palms has given way to hell on Earth. JOCK MILLS Basingstoke, England...
...decision incensed anti-rape activists and further energized a movement already fueled by outrage. "Nowhere since the final days of apartheid has there been greater activism in a national social issue," says Smith, 42, who was an antiapartheid journalist of some repute. "Rape victims are speaking out because we are people, not statistics. We have nothing to be ashamed of. [South Africa is] a so-called moral society that does nothing, that should be filled with shame." Indeed, in a country in which race remains hugely sensitive, the debate centers, surprisingly, not on race but on gender equality. An antirape...
...Joins the anti-apartheid African National Congress 1962-90 Imprisoned for high treason 1991 Becomes president of A.N.C. 1994 Elected South Africa's President 1999 Retires from presidency...
...nominating her, Cellucci praised Marshall's vocal activism against apartheid in her native South Africa before she came to the U.S. in the 1960s...
...should have nominated a African-American judge for the seat, since the Massachusetts bench had until that time been occupied entirely by white males, with only one exception. But many pointed to her stance on racial matters; prior to immigrating to the U.S., she was active in anti-apartheid matters in her native South Africa. And so despite her detractors, Marshall became the second woman ever to sit on the SJC bench...