Word: apartheid
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...business in South Africa, the blockade of Hamilton Hall has continued more than two weeks. At Berkeley, mass rallies were triggered early last week when police arrested 159 protesters who had been on a weeklong sleep-in vigil decrying the university's $1.7 billion portfolio with companies tainted by apartheid...
...generally interpreted as prohibiting marriage, cohabitation and sexual intercourse between whites and nonwhites. In reality, the move will not have a widespread effect: most authorities have long turned a blind eye to the country's few hundred mixed-race relationships. But the toppling of two of the pillars of apartheid seemed at the very least to prepare the way for further and more significant reforms. "The abolition of these laws is more symbolic than substantial," the Rev. Allan Hendrickse, leader of the country's colored (mixed race) parliamentary house told TIME. "But the ripple effect is the important thing. What...
...Washington, the Reagan Administration appeared to be trapped in a delicate position, by turns applauding Botha's reformist promises and deploring the savage realities of apartheid. Mounting a counteroffensive against the 20 separate pieces of antiapartheid legislation introduced in Congress already this year, Secretary of State George Shultz tried to tiptoe along the high wire of the Administration's policy. Apartheid, he conceded, was "morally indefensible." At the same time, he warned, "we must not throw American matches on the emotional tinder of the region...
Bok’s letters argued against divestment from companies conducting business in apartheid South Africa but left open the possibility of “rare occasions when the very nature of a company’s business makes it inappropriate for a university to invest in the enterprise.” But by declining to set a precise standard, opting instead for malleable words like “improper” and “immoral,” Bok offered ample support for those on either side of any divestment debate...
...footy fever is quietly spreading, partly because the game lacks the racial overtones that, 11 years after the end of apartheid, still mark rugby as a mainly white sport and soccer as a black one. Thanks to a series of energetic young development officers funded by the AFL, Aussie Rules now boasts more than 1,000 regular players, from 9-year-olds to seniors in their 20s. In 2002, the South African national team, the Buffaloes, traveled to Melbourne to compete in the inaugural International Cup, which brings together such Aussie Rules outposts as Canada, New Zealand and Samoa. Though...