Word: apartheid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...talking about Harvard's investments under the illegitimate South African regime. Harvard rationalizes these investments saying they in no way encourage apartheid. Instead, the monies increase the representation of our outlook on apartheid. They allege that the U.S. firms provide jobs and opportunities for Blacks. And a fire sale of assets would only benefit the white establishment anyway. So the administration claims its investments in no way buttress the apartheid system which most Americans find depraved and repugnant. Harvard cannot claim that about the spending which we wish to address...
Despite the high profile of some recycled radicals, the current crop of dissenters is not limited to the usual suspects. It embraces the National Coalition of American Nuns, the Prairie Fire Organizing Committee and the Unitarian Universalists Against Apartheid. "You don't normally see students marching with welfare recipients and trade unionists and veterans," says Stevan Kirschbaum, a Boston bus driver and vice president of the United Steelworkers of America Local 8751. "But it's a reflection of both how broad the movement is now and the lessons that everyone's learned from Vietnam...
Hlongwa emphasized that the apartheid government has not really made many changes in its traditional tactics of divide and conquer. He said that the government has not suddenly undergone a change of heart in its oppressive policies, but that it is merely buckling under the pressure...
...apartheid government is preaching peace to the international community while they are conducting war on our people," said Hlongwa...
Lekgoro said the international movement against the apartheid system has had an impact. "We are here to assure you that the sanctions and divestment drive have a significant effect on our cause," he added...