Word: apartheid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Zimbabwe, formerly known by the colonial name Rhodesia, has successfully erased apartheid-like laws. "There are hundreds of thousands of Africans who left Zimbabwe when it was called Rhodesia, to go to Australia, Britain, New Zealand and the States," Maraire says. "These people want to come back to Zimbabwe." She knows that it will be difficult to readjust to her return, but she maintains that each person who returns gives another person an incentive to return. She declares, "The adjustments are worth...
...solitary figure silhouetted against a reddish-orange dawn marks the beginning of Tug Yourgrau's musical, "The Song of Jacob Zulu." The play, which opened on Broadway in 1993, is an honest attempt to recount the tragedies of a South Africa under the baleful spell of apartheid. Inspired by the murder trial of Jacob Zulu in 1985, the play recounts the violence and pressures of a society fractured by racism...
...Yourgrau, South African born playwright and director, began to write the play after President Nelson Mandela established the Truth Commission to ensure that crimes committed during the apartheid era were to be forgiven but not forgotten. Jacob Zulu was written in this same belief. "The search for truth is balanced with the needs of the present to go forward," says Yourgrau. "Healing begins with true talk...
...tried to persuade their followers to remain have been threatened for "not toeing the line," says Alexander Ivanko, a spokesman for the unarmed supervisory police force which monitors the Muslim-Croat constabulary, soon to be regulating the city. "If the Bosnian Serb leaders can enforce this self declared apartheid everywhere, peace may not come to Bosnia," says Time's Mark Thompson "However, Bosnian Serbs in the Sarajevo suburbs may feel they have more to lose than the Serb population in toto, so there may be more compliance in Sarajevo...
...Israel it has been pointed out that the agreement that's now been made is not like the end of apartheid, it's like the institutionalization of apartheid," Chomsky said...