Word: apartheid
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Wood and Washington are the last remaining members of the Board nominated by the Harvard Radcliffe Alumni Against Apartheid (HRAAA), a group active in the 1980s that tried to force Harvard to divest itself of financial holdings in South Africa...
...judge, Aubrey Robinson, was told that Pollard had shared with Israel information regarding U.S. satellite monitoring of joint Israeli-South African missile tests. Robinson, who is Black, told his associates that he was extremely angry that Pollard was in any way involved with issues relating to South Africa's apartheid regime and took that matter into account when sentencing...
With Nelson Mandela's release in February 1990 and the declared dismantling of apartheid, the United States appears to be operating under the assumption that South Africa is well on its way to becoming a multiracial democracy...
Politically-related murders in the country have reached their highest levels in memory. More than 7,000 people (approximately 9 per day) have been killed in the past two years, during the so-called post-apartheid era. Blacks still cannot vote and they continue to be without representation in government. The South African educational system remains a jumbled mass of tangled bureaucracies (there are 19 departments of education), culturally biased matriculation exams and segregated schools...
More importantly, the International Monetary Fund has offered the South African government $10 billion in loans. This is the same broederbond-controlled government that has been in place since Hendrik Verwoerd developed the system which came to be known as apartheid...