Word: tutu
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reasons for building the shantytown. But a deeper reason, it seems to me, is frustration over the continued absence of peer support. There has been no student groundswell, even after a year of increasing violence in South Africa, and visits to Harvard by Jesse Jackson and Bishop Desmond W. Tutu. After years of "consciousness raising" without divestment, no one seriously expects the Corporation to change its collective mind. Now the activist tactic is not to raise consciousness but to raise the ante--that is, to increase protest pressure...
Antiapartheid activists welcomed the announcement but warned that Botha's new proposals, which include identity books that all South Africans will have to carry, could mean the same old restrictions under a smoother-sounding name. Said Bishop Desmond Tutu, who last week was elected Archbishop of Cape Town, making him the first black man to lead the Anglican Church in South Africa: "I hope there is not a sting in the tail. One has to be very careful that they are not going to find another way of harassing blacks...
Anglican Bishop Desmond Tutu, one of the country's best known Black leaders, cautioned Blacks to "be aware of the small print" in the government policy statement...
...Some form of influx control may be brought in through the back door," said Tutu, who won the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize and has just been elected archbishop of Cape Town...
...divestment movement has won support from a number of Black South African leaders and brought Bishop Tutu to the University to speak in January. It has forced Harvard to scuttle its ill-conceived South African Internship Program. And it has forced debate and put the University administration on notice with the successful erection of a shantytown. But so far, Harvard officials have ignored the shanty building and seem determined to ignore students' demands...