Word: apartheid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Nadine Gordimer's books and short stories, each set in South Africa, form a picture of apartheid and the South African society that Gordimer calls "extremely volatile...
...midst of the fight over apartheid, Gordimer was asked "very nastily" in a South African courtroom if the army of the then-outlawed African National Congress was her army. She replied...
...Apartheid no longer exists, a new constitution is in effect, and Nelson Mandela, the leader of the African National Congress, Gordimer's political party, is president...
...been beguiled by the idea of compensatory unfairness. They have not recognized it for what it is: a flirtation with the devil, a deepening reliance on the principle that formed the foundation of slavery, the Ku Klux Klan and Jim Crow. This was the poison at the center of apartheid and Hitler's Nuremberg Laws...
Clinton's move to open trade with Indonesia has made a mockery of the techniques of economic diplomacy. Since World War II, nations with strong economies have effectively used trade sanctions to combat apartheid in South Africa, totalitarianism in Nicaragua, genocide in Bosnia and Communism in Cuba...