Sentences with phrase «eskom under apartheid»

Noah, 32, who grew up under apartheid, contends that his background gives him a different perspective on the GOP candidate.

History and political buffs will want to see World Heritage site Robben Island, which was used as a maximum - security political prison under apartheid; former president Nelson Mandela was famously held there.

They also argue that the amnesty the South African government granted to perpetrators of human rights under apartheid in exchange for their testimony before the Truth Commission compromised justice and could be defended only if it were necessary for a transition to democracy, not by any idea of reconciliation.

«When we used to apply for passports under the apartheid government, we never knew until the last moment what their decision was,» Tutu said at a news conference.

He talked about what it was like to write and produce plays under apartheid.

Ghanaians have been living in South Africa as early as the 1960s, with a larger influx of Ghanaians arriving in the 1980s to service Black South Africans under the apartheid government.

Did Mahatma Gandhi ever publicly declare his opinion on the racist segregation under the apartheid regime in South Africa?

Under apartheid, even prisoners were treated differently depending on their racial origin: White prisoners got the most privileges, followed by those of Indian origin, while black people got the least.

This time the rights of Palestinians are at stake, suffering under another Apartheid regime.

Companies targeted by divestment campaigns — whether against firms involved in South Africa under apartheid, Darfur conflicts or this current carbon struggle — historically have responded that divestment does not affect their bottom lines.

There's a very dark comic side to this story, in which blacks and whites come together to treat another group worse than blacks were ever treated under apartheid.

But given that the crimes — the murders of at least 10 women, some of whom were prostitutes — took place in South Central Los Angeles it's hardly surprising, according to London - born Broomfield, who describes Los Angeles as operating under apartheid.

«In My Country,» directed by John Boorman, dramatizes the actions of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which was formed by President Nelson Mandela to offer amnesty to those who had committed human rights abuses under apartheid, provided they told the whole truth and could prove they followed orders.

As Albie Sachs, a former South African activist who defended people charged under apartheid's repressive laws, told Legal Affairs magazine in 2004, «The ex-NUSAS types are determined, mature, resolute,» he said.

But the South African school system under apartheid was obviously unique; in some districts, the average class size reached 80 students.

Eight of the 20 states reporting the highest numbers of students attending schools under apartheid conditions are located in the South or Border states, a significant retrenchment on civil rights progress.

* Under Apartheid, citizens were classified into three race categories: White, Coloured (people of mixed race), and Black (or Bantu).

In direct, honest voices, 12 South African teens talk about their diverse experiences under apartheid and the way they see their country now.

On our chauffeured tour from the Saxon Hotel, for example, we stop in the lovely avenues of Houghton to peek at the residences where Mandela lived as president and then privately in retirement: he picked the area as a symbol of the new integrated Rainbow Nation — under apartheid blacks would not even have been allowed to walk there.

Muholi grew up under Apartheid, in the «Bantu education» system that ensured that blacks would receive a substandard education and remain in the working class.

Born in Cape Town, South Africa, under apartheid, Dumas moved to the Netherlands in 1976, where she came to prominence in the mid-1980s.

From there, the eye might wander toward Alighiero Boetti for a similarly colored Map of the World, in the photographs of Africa and America by Carrie Mae Weems, or Stone Flag by Robin Rhode as a shattered remnant of human labor under apartheid, as photographed elsewhere by David Goldblatt.

Nunn began taking photographs professionally in the early 1980s in South Africa and is well - known for images taken during the struggle period under Apartheid rule and from the transition to democracy in the 1990s.

Gunn - Salie's graduate exhibition titled Witness presented a site - specific body of work focusing on still unresolved issues of forced removals under apartheid, working with veteran residents of District Six, an area in central Cape Town where widespread forced removals occurred.

Born and based in Johannesburg, he often draws on personal experience in constructing narratives of life under apartheid.

She performs regularly as a vocalist in the soul, folk and jazz idioms, and, as a doctoral candidate in African Studies and Art History at Harvard, continues to chip away at her dissertation on the first generation of black South African photojournalists under Apartheid.

Artist Conrad Botes grew up in South Africa under Apartheid.

Mohau Modisakeng's meditative self - portraiture uses the language of dreams and visions to communicate a sense of suppressed trauma, evoking the scars which persist from violence enacted under Apartheid.

Films, sound works, photographs and installations highlight «botanical nationalism» and other legacies of colonialism, plant migration, bio-piracy, flower diplomacy under apartheid, the role of classification and naming of plants as well as the garden planted by Mandela and his fellow inmates in Robben Island prison.

South Africa under apartheid would be another example, or King Salman of Saudi Arabia how has the Council of Political and Security Affairs and the Council for Economic Development Affairs to help bind the Suderi faction regime.

If that were to be nullified because of the laws of another country, then — for example — a marriage between two people of different races could be ruled invalid if they had lived under apartheid in South Africa or in one of the many states that once banned «miscegenation.»

These commissions are a creation of the last half of the twentieth century; possibly the most well - known is the South African TRC set up in 1995 to help deal with what happened under apartheid.

He points out that under apartheid the white minority government neglected to provide reliable public transportation for the majority of South Africans — until mostly black individuals with an entrepreneurial spirit decided to start an informal taxi service.

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Most of these are politically united under the banner of the South African Council of Churches, which, as noted, has gone far beyond declaring apartheid a heresy as an idea and fundamentally anti-Christian as a policy (which it has repeatedly done in a variety of fora).

In South Africa, these had been known under the term «apartheid.»

I believe, personally, that we must seek the roots of apartheid theology rather in the pietist withdrawal of reformed theology from the public sphere under the influence of Andrew Murray and others, and in the influence of German theologians and philosophers on Afrikaner students during the 1930s.

When Covey got into houses, he was under orders not to discuss apartheid or politics.

When people criticize Israel as Apartheid, they often argue that Israelis and Palestinians live under different laws.

Just because a subordinate class benefits from living under «apartheid» conditions does not take away the fact that those conditions are unjust.

Apartheid is a word describing the racist segregation policies of South Africa before these policies were abolished by the ANC under the leadership of Nelson Mandela in the 90s; it is a word that the white minority themselves used to describe their system of control, domination, subjugation and humiliation of the indigenous black African majority.

Progressive thinktank the Fabian Society argues that tenants in born in the 1970s are suffering under a form of social apartheid completely alien to their post-war predecessors.

In any case, these people's melodramatic issues can not compare to those suffering under the heel of Apartheid at the same time.

It's presented as a propagandistic TV documentary about what went wrong in District 9, where Wikus — a white representative of a black government — went in with heavy military backup to uproot the one group in South African history to be treated worse than blacks were under the previous apartheid regime.

I also appreciated the evenhanded way in which you approached each of the presidents Cecil served under, like how Reagan could give his African - American help a raise to make their pay equal to that of whites, while hypocritically still supporting Apartheid in South Africa.

Come Back, Africa — The Films of Lionel Rogosin, Volume II (Milestone, Blu - ray, DVD) presents Rogosin's 1959 drama about apartheid, which he shot clandestinely in South Africa under the constant threat of arrest and deportation (his local collaborators faced even worse).

He visited Spain in the time of Franco, Portugal in the time of Salazar, South Africa in the time of apartheid, Chile in the time of Pinochet, Argentina in the time of the junta, Prague, East Germany, and Yugoslavia under the Communist yoke.

Twelve South African teenagers share their experiences of life under and since apartheid, as well as their hopes for the future of their country and themselves.

Its neglect is a direct result of its being one of the previously disadvantaged areas that suffered most under the marginalisation of apartheid.

His powerful, penetrating work offers a window into what it was like for black South Africans to live under the segregation and violence of apartheid.

Her experience of living as a female under the racism and rigid social structures of South African Apartheid has influenced much of her chosen subject matter.