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...most of the speeches collected here. He pays tribute to the struggles of all the progressive forces in bringing about the current phase of negotiations, including the youth, students, women's groups, civic organizations, churches, and the trade unions. In a speech to the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), he remarked...
Throughout the book, Mandela urges his listeners to participate in the tradition epitomized by the bottom-up, shop-floor democracy of NUM and the larger Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) to ensure that the liberation struggle never becomes merely a middle-class movement with working-class and grassroots rhetoric. He constructively criticizes his own organization for its sexism, affirming that "South African society is profoundly patriarchal....Can we seriously claim to be democrats when in our practices we continue to treat women as underlings?" He calls for the South African government and the international community to address...
Breaking down the Harvard num- bers, Fitzsimmons said there was a 19 percentincrease in female applicants and an 8 percentincrease in male applicants. The increase inminority applicants was commensurate with theoverall increase...
...Richard Pryor wannabes. He is also the star of Fox-TV's Martin, a black-themed slapstick sitcom that is one of the top-rated shows among teenagers, and, as Lawrence points out, his voice rising with excitement, "If Fox was broadcast everywhere, you never know, we might be Num...
...Students do not care about the city elections but they do care about the presidential elections," said Samp, who also expects registration num- bers to jump after Harvard and MIT classesresume...