Word: apartheid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...former member of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), the organization charged with investigation crimes committed under apartheid, spoke about her work before a packed house at the Bunting Institute last night...
Assassination, torture, kidnapping and execution were tools of law enforcement in apartheid South Africa -- that much is clear from the 3,500-page true-life horror story released by the Truth Commission Thursday. Its exhaustive accounts, from perpetrators and victims, of almost every apartheid-era violation is a gut-wrenching chronicle of evil's violent banality. Little will change as a result of the report; even the recommendation of prosecution for those who failed to seek amnesty for specific violations -- such as former president P.W. Botha and former first lady Winnie Mandela -- is unlikely to be deemed politically or legally...
...reason African Americans support President Clinton is that we see historical hypocrisy in American morals [DIVIDING LINE, Oct. 5]. For inappropriate consensual sexual behavior, America demanded of President Clinton contriteness and apologies, while during 350 years of American enslavement and apartheid, black women were sexually brutalized by white men without recourse to justice. African Americans have never received apologies or other expressions of remorse. Americans see in the faces of black people the reflections of the past sins of their nation's approved immoral behavior. Anti-Clinton politicians and public notables are touting morals that never existed in our nation...
...raise money for political campaigns. Nothing eleventh hour about the most recent efforts of JAY LENO and his wife MAVIS. The couple held a meeting last week in their Beverly Hills, Calif., home to raise $500,000 and plan early strategy for a publicity campaign to end "gender apartheid in Afghanistan." Industry heavyweight SID SCHEINBERG and actress TERI GARR were among the 45 people who attended. The group aims to stop corporate investment and to cease recognition by any nation of the Taliban government, which has barred women from schooling and work. Mavis Leno has gone beyond giving parties...
...Milosevic] closed down schools," Skrabalo said. "It was the same thing as Apartheid [in South Africa,] just that the origin counted, not the race...