Sentences with phrase «africans during apartheid»

Dr. Iqbal Surve, a self - described «medical doctor, philanthropist, and social entrepreneur,» was born in 1963 and grew up in poverty, like virtually all non-white South Africans during apartheid.

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What we are left with is a system in which South Africans are paying for debt incurred during the Apartheid regime and Congolese citizens are repaying debts for money that was stolen by Mobutu Sese Seko.

During apartheid, the effervescent Archbishop Emeritus of Cape Town was threatened, imprisoned, and banned from foreign travel, but he never stopped criticising the South African government.

According to Davies, it was known during the apartheid years that the computer company ICL, then British - owned, sold the South African government the computers that made its pass system workable.

Director Neill Blomkamp was born in Johannesburg during South African apartheid and he does an admirable job of tackling the subject.

She has been researching modern and contemporary South African art since the late 1990s, specialising in the story of artists in exile during Apartheid and their cultural interactions with the Black Diaspora in France and England.

south african artist robin rhode reflects on his own childhood as a school student in johannesburg during the twilight of apartheid by turning the chrystie street branch of the lehmann maupin gallery in new york into a makeshift coloring book.

Eminent bishop and Nobel peace prize winner Desmond Tutu has called on businesses to cut ties with the fossil fuels industry, in the same way as they did with South African companies during apartheid.

A notable exception, of course, was the disruption of African family life by the migratory labour system during the colonial and apartheid era.