Word: apartheiders
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...Joins the anti-apartheid African National Congress 1962-90 Imprisoned for high treason 1991 Becomes president of A.N.C. 1994 Elected South Africa's President 1999 Retires from presidency...
...nominating her, Cellucci praised Marshall's vocal activism against apartheid in her native South Africa before she came to the U.S. in the 1960s...
...should have nominated a African-American judge for the seat, since the Massachusetts bench had until that time been occupied entirely by white males, with only one exception. But many pointed to her stance on racial matters; prior to immigrating to the U.S., she was active in anti-apartheid matters in her native South Africa. And so despite her detractors, Marshall became the second woman ever to sit on the SJC bench...
...wary eye of police in armored vehicles, waving their fists and chanting their defiance in the face of an unyielding regime. This time, however, the ruling party is the African National Congress, which those same workers helped bring to power ?- and the protest signifies the end of the post-apartheid honeymoon between socialist-inclined big labor and their market-oriented allies in government. After seven months of bitter negotiations, the two sides have failed to agree on a wage increase for public-sector employees, and the unions on Tuesday mounted a one-day national strike as a warning shot...
...hottest debate is in South Africa, where nearly 3.5 million of that country's 40 million citizens are HIV-infected--more than three times the U.S. rate--and 50,000 new HIV cases emerge each month. Drug prices tend to be high, a holdover from apartheid, when price premiums were needed to encourage foreign companies to override sanctions. Says Mojanku Gumbi, an adviser to South Africa's new President, Thabo Mbeki: "This is not about intellectual property rights. It's about pricing structure and segmenting of markets. We are saying that the drug companies can't make the same profits...