Word: apartheid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Some members of the advisory committee have pointed to the release of Nelson Mandela and the repeal of some apartheid laws as signs of marked improvement in the country, arguing that Harvard should send a message that it appreciates these recent developments, according to the report...
...advisory committee opposed shareholder resolutions that called for the withdrawal of Colgate and International Paper from South Africa. According to the report, those voting against the resolution argued that the companies could have a positive influence in a post-apartheid South Africa...
Although South Africa's blacks are still a long way from gaining political equality with whites, there are ample signs that the apartheid system is crumbling -- as are the international sanctions that were erected against it. Last week Japan, following the U.S. by three months, lifted economic restrictions. A few days earlier, the Commonwealth nations decided to permit a resumption of sporting and cultural events. The changes are generally approved by the African National Congress, South Africa's leading black political group. Earlier this year, the A.N.C. gave its blessing to the resumption of certain cultural contacts, paving...
...Battle to Defeat Apartheid: African National Congress Fighters Face Coming Challenges--a lecture with Derek Bracey, the national organizational secretary of the Young socialist Alliance. Call 247-6772. Sponsored by the Militant Labor Forum at the Pathfinder Bookstore at 605 Mass. Ave. in Boston. Saturday...
...think you're thinking of my subject as Apartheid, capital A. That's not my subject. My subject has been living in that country and the people who live there...