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...that end, if the Bush administration is serious about affecting real reforms on the island, it should highlight the imprisonment of noted Cuban dissidents the way Western activists did Nelson Mandela’s Apartheid-era jailing in South Africa. One name to start with—a name that a majority of Americans, and many Cubans, for that matter, are probably unaware of—is Francisco Chaviano Gonzalez. He has endured almost nine years of torture in the Combinado del Este prison for publicly attacking Castro on Cuban human rights violations. But Chaviano is only one of some...
...beyond all expectations," he says. "It is now one of the greatest sporting events on the world calendar." Host nation South Africa needs that to be the case. It is using the cricket competition to showcase not only its potential as an international sporting venue but also its post-apartheid aura of unity and democracy. The country hosted, and won, the 1995 Rugby World Cup, and was beaten controversially by Germany for rights to the 2006 soccer World Cup. The South Africans are hungry to host the soccer spectacular in 2010. "Sport in South Africa has proved...
Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela is a South African psychologist of striking moral intelligence and clarity who served on Archbishop Desmond Tutu's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, set up in the aftermath of apartheid's overthrow to try to deflect retaliation and revenge. Eugene de Kock is a white South African who served for many years as the commander of state-sanctioned apartheid death squads. De Kock is serving a 212-year sentence in a Pretoria prison for crimes against humanity...
Currently, one-sixth of the country’s black students are educated in schools that are almost completely non-white, in the northeast and midwest areas the proportion rises to one-fourth of all black students. These schools, which the report calls “apartheid schools,” often suffer from poverty, limited resources and a variety of social and health problems...
Student and alumni reflections also comprise a section of the Guide, as does an extensive look at the history of black activism at Harvard—from the 1969 University Hall takeover to more recent efforts to end apartheid in South Africa and to promote more diversity in the curriculum...