Word: apartheid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Mandela spoke of the need for a worldwide movement to end apartheid, he praised the city where activists, college students and liberal politicians that spurred the American divestment movement for so many years...
...Nelson Mandela had been a dutiful young man, respectful of tradition and authority, he would have grown up to be a chief of the Tembu tribe in the South African homeland of Transkei. Instead he rebelled against tribal ways, an arranged marriage and the white government's brutal apartheid system. He eventually became the world's most famous prisoner and, since his release four months ago, the de facto leader of the African National Congress...
Last week he began a six-week, 13-country swing to persuade the rest of the world not to reward President F.W. de Klerk too early for easing up on apartheid. And when he arrives in the U.S. this week, he will be forced into still another exhausting role: heroic superstar. One of the most honored and respected men alive, Mandela is in the spotlight everywhere he goes. But in the U.S., where media fire storms are an art form, the visit-as-event will reach its highest stage. He will be besieged by cameras and jostling admirers, beseeched...
Mandela holds a special place in the feelings of American civil rights campaigners, liberals and black activists. During the Reagan years, when such forces were dispirited and often divided, opposition to apartheid and support for Mandela provided them with a unifying passion. No leader since the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. has brought together such a diverse coalition in the fight against racial injustice...
While the University is doing ethical house-cleaning in its investments, it should take the simple step that students and anti-apartheid leaders have urged for year; divest itself completely of all investments in companies that do business in South Africa. The University has dragged its feet on the issue for almost 20 years, latching on to one discredited compromise after another while ignoring the pleas of such moral authorities as South African Archbishop Desmond M. Tutu, a member of the Board of Overseers. An educational institution that claims to uphold moral principles must recognize the imperative to eschew profits...