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...celebrities (for assorted addictions) to third-world countries (for debt). We've become so used to people forgiving that we're disappointed when they can't do it. Occasionally, we do hear truly profound pleas for reconciliation: when Nelson Mandela emerged from 27 years in South Africa's apartheid prisons, he astonished the world by preaching liberation with forgiveness. But personally forgiving someone who has killed your loved one is one of the hardest things we can ever do. "Forgiveness doesn't come easily," says Piet Meiring, a professor of theology who was part of South Africa's postapartheid Truth...
...mail. “He set an example and a standard of reason that was (and is) uncommon at the time.”DIVESTMENT: ROUND ONEPerhaps the issue that best characterized his interaction with students was the issue of divestment from American-owned companies with financial ties to Apartheid-era South Africa. Many criticized the University for continuing to invest in companies that implicitly supported a morally reprehensible regime. Students marched, held rallies, and even constructed a replica shantytown in protest.Despite all the pressure, Bok continued to argue against divestment. In one of his infamous open letters, Bok wrote...
...more forceful approach. He and his roommate and best friend, Doug Harris ’72 (the two believed they were the personification of Lorraine Hansberry’s play, “To Be Young, Gifted and Black”) fought for Harvard to divest from investments in Apartheid-era South Africa. When Harris helped coordinate a 1972 occupation of Massachusetts Hall, Reeves joined in the protesting...
Gumboots performed an energetic Gumboot dance, which dramatizes the working lives of miners in South Africa’s oppressive apartheid government. Dressed in overalls and boots, the dancers were incredibly moving as they portrayed the plight of Black South Africa...
...Harvard to cut its ties to an oppressive African regime. For Bok, it may seem like déjà vu.When Bok was at Harvard’s helm in the late 1970s, the campus was consumed by a controversy over the University’s financial links to apartheid-era South Africa.Bok, who returns to Mass. Hall on July 1, took a skeptical stance toward divestment demands.In open letters to the Harvard community, Bok wrote that he believed divestment was unlikely to help end apartheid, and might threaten the University’s academic mission and financial stability.This time...