Word: apartheid
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...African officials on Wednesday scrapped a long-held commitment to racial quotas for their national sports teams. That plan was one of the cornerstones of President Thabo Mbeki's push to integrate sports in a sports-crazed nation, and help close the huge racial schisms left by decades of apartheid. "Quotas are out," the sports minister Makhenkesi Stofile said in a parliamentary hearing on Wednesday attempting to explain the reversal. "We are not going to decide who must be on the team," he said. "All we are saying is: expose everybody, give them an opportunity...
Tourism is South Africa's fastest-growing industry, thanks to safaris, white-water rafting and beautiful beaches. But a decade after democratic elections consigned apartheid to the dustbin of history, visitors have also begun to appreciate the country's urban buzz, particularly the pleasures and intrigue of Johannesburg and Cape Town...
...poorest citizens. A tour is now practically mandatory for anyone visiting South Africa, to see how much the country has changed and how far it still has to go. Both Jimmy's Face to Face Tours (www.face2face.co.za) and Max Maximum Tours www.backpackafrica.com offer quality guided visits. Nearby is the Apartheid Museum www.apartheidmuseum.org) at which visitors are randomly assigned a racial classification and then enter the raw concrete-and-steel structure through one of two doors--white or nonwhite. Inside are exhibits, photos, video and posters chronicling apartheid's repression as well as the optimism of the 1994 elections. The newly...
...Dube--who wrote the lyrics "Do you ever worry about leaving home and coming back in a coffin with a bullet through your head?"--was fatally shot by carjackers in a Johannesburg suburb, caught up in the rampant street crime that has plagued his country since the end of apartheid. Dube sang in three languages--Zulu, English and Afrikaans--and recorded 22albums, some of which were banned under apartheid. Inspired by Bob Marley to use reggae as a vehicle for tackling social injustice and inequality, Dube was honored by thousands at a Johannesburg memorial service...
...rather than host people associated with the ruling regime in Iran. “Harvard led the way in reforming South Africa during the 1980s by applying political and economic pressure,” Tagg Romney said. “Harvard never would have invited a white supremacist or apartheid supporter to speak.” In his talk, Romney focused on his father’s ideals and the qualities that he said made him the best candidate for president. Calling his father the “best problem solver I know,” Romney stressed the former...