Word: apartheid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...core of the problem seems to be the determination of almost every group to feel superior to others. In some countries, those emotions have been codified into discriminatory laws like South Africa's apartheid, but even without them, ethnic hatred can make itself felt. Traditionally, that attitude was labeled racism. But the term can hardly embrace attacks as diverse as those on black Americans in New York City, North African workers in Italy, Arab immigrants in France, Romanies (Gypsies) in Czechoslovakia, Hungarians in Romania. Very few Jews are left in Central Europe after Hitler's Holocaust, but the anti-Semitism...
Most of the A.N.C. regards Buthelezi, who formed Inkatha in 1975 after working with the congress, as a sellout. They accuse him of abetting apartheid by serving as chief minister of KwaZulu, one of the ten "homelands" where blacks can exercise their political rights. The A.N.C. also condemns Buthelezi for opposing the "armed struggle" and international sanctions against Pretoria...
President F.W. de Klerk promised major changes in apartheid last week -- but not yet in the system's mainstays. The reformist politician said he would pursue repeal of the Separate Amenities Act, a 1953 law that provides for segregation of public facilities. Disappointingly, De Klerk pledged reform but not repeal of the laws that define residential apartheid, reserve just 13% of the nation's land for the black majority, and classify all citizens by race...
...case for divestment is still as strong as ever. Despite some superficial reforms, such as the recent release of African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela, the oppressive apparatus of apartheid remains intact. Support for divestment and corporate withdrawal is still almost universal among Black South African leaders. Archbishop Desmond Tutu, a Nobel Peace Prize recipient and member of the Harvard Board of Overseers, recently advised the Board that divestment remains the most powerful instrument for bringing about real reforms in the apartheid system...
...given to the Senior Class Gift. In addition, you can have the satisfaction of helping to throw Harvard's weight behind the struggle to rid the world of one of its most repugnant regimes. Corny as it may sound, your $20 contribution represents another chink in the armor of apartheid...