Word: apartheiders
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...Afrikaans father, Uys, 56, began his career as a playwright in the early 1970s but found his work banned. Undeterred, he donned a frowzy dress and created his famous alter ego, Evita Bezuidenhout, the saccharine-sweet wife of a conservative politician - and used her character to lampoon apartheid's absurdities in farces like Adapt or Dye and Skating on Thin Uys. His Evita not only escaped the censors - she soon had the nation eating out of her well-manicured hand. After the end of apartheid, Uys found plenty to satirize in the new "designer democracy." In 1995, he was back...
...influence the process rather than walk away. Once you walk away you have no influence,” Daniel says, citing Harvard’s pullout of investment in South Africa during apartheid during the 1980s...
...When Desmond Tutu approached Harvard after apartheid ended to ask for help pressuring companies to reinvest in South Africa, the University had sold all of the stock in companies that did business with South Africa...
...Griswold says that the Commonfund has seen a drop-off in shareholder responsibility issues in the 1990s, since no single issue dominates anymore, as apartheid did in the 1980s—now concerns are spread more widely over tobacco, alcohol, child and slave labor, and weapons production...
...supporters, working to persuade them of the necessity of compromise rather than simply pretending it wasn't happening. He had rejected terrorism on principle: his soldiers were always under orders to avoid attacking civilians, even when their unarmed supporters on the ground were being massacred by the apartheid regime. And the South African leader also always displayed a keen understanding of his adversary's motivations and concerns, which gave him the ability both to read their tactics and articulate positions that could assuage their fears...