Word: soweto
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...student groups whom they credit as the real leaders of the national movement. Indeed they say the current spate of activism across the country is a direct outgrowth of student protests in this country during the late 1970s sparkled by the bloody riots of Black high school students in Soweto, the Black township outside Johannesburg...
...past 20 years--and particularly since the Soweto riots of 1976--the actions of activists challenging U.S. corporate involvement in South Africa have frequently grabbed headlines in the nation's press. Candlelight processions, violent demonstrations, and even occasional institutional decisions to divest have kept the issue continuously, if sporadically, in the country's news. Yet determining the effects of this activity has been difficult at best. Has the movement simply sparked public awareness and soul-searching, or has it really affected American corporate involvement in South Africa...
...director of the IRRC's South Africa Review Service, notes, however, that U.S. bank loans have also been constrained by two additional factors: heavy borrowing by the South African government in the early 1970s which pushed loans at several U.S. banks to their ceilings, and a feeling after the Soweto riots in 1976 that any loans to the country were a high-risk proposition. In the last year, as much of the previous debt has been paid off and the memory of Soweto has dimmed, bank lending has begun to creep upward again...
...student groups, whom they credit as the real leaders of the national movement. Indeed, they say, the current spate of activism across the country is a direct outgrowth of student protests in this country during the late 1970s sparked by the bloody riots of Black high school students in Soweto, the Black township outside Johannesburg...
Outraged by gross disparities in the quality of education for Blacks and whites, thousands of Soweto students rioted for several days in 1976, burning books and vandalizing schools before being brutally quelled by South African police. Dozens of Black students were killed in the riots, outraging many students here and prompting a wave of demonstrations against the conditions of inequality for Blacks and whites in South Africa that persist today. "The 1976 Soweto riots really generated an enormous amount of student activity [on U.S. campuses]," says Gail Hovey, research coordinator for the American Committee on Africa (ACOA). After that start...