Word: apartheid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This massive outbreak of crime comes as South Africa stands poised to make some of the greatest steps towards democracy in its history. Enforced segregation is officially out of the lawbooks, and the country's first true national elections are scheduled for next April. Apartheid, the scourge which has made South Africans pariahs to the international community for so long, looks as if it will become nothing more than a bad memory. So it is ironic that at a time when South Africans should be rejoicing the beginning of a new era, many of them are instead cowering in fear...
...South Africa been plunged into this chaos? Why does the dismantling of Apartheid seem to have caused every crook to crawl out of his hole? The answer probably lies in fact that the abrupt changes in the old regime have weakened many of the institutions which formerly maintained order. The anti-Apartheid movement has challenged the authority of the national government, the army and the police force, whose grip over society has weakened. This, of course, has given the average person more liberty. Unfortunately, though, the lifting of the veil of repression has unleashed more than just the honest...
...questions about Harvard's past are notlikely to be resolved anytime soon, even thoughboth sides agree that the issue of apartheid isessentially mute. Indeed, some alumni say, thedebate that raged so intensely for so many yearsis far from over. Rather, they suggest, it islikely to continue, as the University maps out itsfuture policy toward a new South Africa...
...Alumni organize the Harvard/Radcliffe Alumni Against Apartheid (HRAAA). In June, Gay W. Seidman '76, an HRAAA-endorsed candidate, is elected to the Board of Overseers...
July 1985 In a letter to then-Senate Majority Leader Robert J. Dole (R-Kan.) and then-Senate Minority Leader Robert C. Byrd (D-W. Va.), Harvard President Derek C. Bok urges that the United States place sanctions on South Africa for refusing to dismantle apartheid...