Sentences with phrase «against apartheid»

The AAM was begun by South Africans who had fled apartheid and settled in England and who were determined to maintain solidarity with those still struggling against apartheid in South Africa itself.

«I remember well,» he says, «the assistance we contributed in the struggle against apartheid in South Africa.

It is the warmth and security we feel as we find ourselves, through the son, «close to the Father's heart» (John 1:18) In this spirit of hospitality, we can understand Archbishop Tutu and the South Africans who protest against apartheid as attending a messianic banquet in the presence of President Botha.

Democratic governor Jay Inslee compared his fight for a carbon tax in his state of Washington to Nelson Mandela's fight against apartheid in South Africa.

By 1962, he had been instrumental in the founding of Umkhonto we Sizwe (the spear of the nation), the military wing of the ANC, charged with leading an armed struggle against the Apartheid government which had institutionalised South Africa's long history of racial injustice and taken it to new and bloody depths.

Bonhoeffer's role in the German Kirchenkampf and his insistence on «confessing Christ concretely here and now» were particularly helpful in the church struggle against apartheid as a false gospel and heresy.

In a South African shanty town, a black preacher might see priest and Levite as Western nations that soft - pedal sanctions against the apartheid government in Pretoria.

«As former Nigerian Permanent Representative to the United Nations, the late Maitama Sule chaired the important United Nations Standing Committee Against Apartheid then ravaging South Africa

She was the founding president of Art Against Apartheid.

Hazel and her husband, Hymie, were both active fighters against apartheid in South Africa in the 1950s and»60s, so active that they were forced to leave the country on a one - way passport or face being arrested.

He also spent a lot of time both in India and in South Africa organizing protests against apartheid policies, albeit, mostly ones targeting those of Indian descent.

South Africans are celebrating Women's Day 60 years after the iconic women's march against the apartheid regime in Pretoria in 1956.

The journal also took contrarian positions on other international issues, including opposing sanctions against the apartheid regime in South Africa, support for the Bosnian Serb forces and the Hutu militias and opposition to the ban on land mines.

He's attempting to create a divestment campaign modeled after the successful campaign against apartheid in South Africa.

She was murdered by a crowd of angry people in the Eastern Cape, who were protesting against apartheid laws during the Defiance Campaign in 1952 in South Africa.

Ramaphosa, currently the country's deputy president, is a veteran of the struggle against Apartheid who went on to become an extremely wealthy businessman before returning to politics.

Based in Cape Town, McDaid started out as a teacher - turned educational advocate and activist against apartheid before turning to faith - based environmental justice.

In the late 1960s, Roman Catholics, alongside Protestants and other denominations, spoke out publicly against Apartheid in South Africa.

There was, for example, in the eighties an Interfaith Colloquium against Apartheid and there were various interfaith gatherings on ecological issues as well as interfaith prayer and work for peace, but the Parliament for a moment captured the attention of the world and sought to show, at a time of intense conflict in former Yugoslavia and of communal troubles in India, that religions need not be a cause of division but could unite on certain basic ethical teachings.

But many of the whites voted against apartheid because they feared civil war, not just because they hated racism.

Believing victory against apartheid to be inevitable, he also spoke against black violence — even threatening to leave the country should it get out of hand.

The writer, who was one of the literary world's most powerful voices against apartheid — died at her home after a short illness, her family said.

Peter Hain is moved by Hilda Bernstein's account of one family's battle against the apartheid machine, The World that Was Ours.

«I've known him since the 1980's, and we both did civil rights work,» said Luna, recalling their protests against apartheid together.

So she stayed, traveling across the United States, speaking against apartheid, and talking about women's rights and the Vietnam War.

79, Ed.D.» 84, his first experience in prison was in 1989, when he was arrested during a demonstration against the apartheid government in South Africa.

The discussion also relates the 1981 events to the broader history of New Zealand protest against Apartheid sport, and some pertinent Australian connections to this history.

Working with these opposites also has a political dimension; it's a symbol of protest and resistance against apartheid.

CUNY showed The Prisoner in their 1984 Art Against Apartheid Exhibition.

In the 1980s Kentridge was among one of the many creatives that was political involved against the apartheid — working out of the Market Theatre in one of Johannesburg's inner - city suburbs.

During his infamous treason trial, the one that sent him to his long imprisonment on Robben Island, Mandela made the connection between his cultural heritage and the struggle against apartheid explicit:

And here is a link to a an op - ed I wrote in the same issue of The Heights, arguing that BC, as a Jesuit institution, had a particular obligation to be at the forefront of the fight to end apartheid: Commentary SALSG: The Case Against Apartheid)-- The Heights 29 January 1979 — Boston College.

He rallied the British Commonwealth against the apartheid policies of South Africa.

The same way that I did in South Africa fighting against the Apartheid and antidemocratic rule.

She is the recipient of numerous awards, grants, and artist residencies, including a Fulbright Senior Research Fellowship andtwo Fulbright Senior Specialist grants as well as grants from the Ford Foundation, the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation and the United Nations Special Committee Against Apartheid.

I just read on the paper this morning that Mr. Zuma, the president of South Africa and one of the freedom fighters against apartheid is now spending something like 23 million in renovations on his private state.

Labour leader Ed Miliband compared the gathering to the marches against apartheid as he gave a speech to those present.

He tried to galvanize political leaders in his homeland to end the insidious, violent nature of Jamaican politics, and campaigned against apartheid in South Africa.

The International Day was proclaimed by the UN General Assembly in 1966, to coincide with the date in 1960 when police killed 69 people in Sharpeville, South Africa at a peaceful protest against apartheid laws.

The notion of turning coal into liquid fuels on a big scale has simmered for decades, but only the trade sanctions against apartheid in South Africa resulted in anyone reviving the Nazi - era technology — until now.

He managed to obtain a missionary - school education, and then, from 1948 until 1961, worked what mischief he could against the apartheid government before finally being «banned» — classed as a non-person.

The internationally renowned South African jazz trumpeter Hugh Masekela, whose music was an integral part of the soundtrack to the struggle against Apartheid, has passed away at the age of 78 following a battle against prostate cancer.

In the 1980s, he convinced the administrative body of his seminary school to stop investing in companies that did business in South Africa as part of a widespread protest against apartheid.

«Reagan Vs. Cities and States: The 20th Century Battle over South African Apartheid» tells the story of how cities and states joined the fight against apartheid in South Africa and won even as the Reagan administration and special interest groups like the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) sought to suppress those efforts.

During the 1970s and 1980s, he served in leadership positions in the ANC, struggling against apartheid.

At the outset of the Cape Town Congress, C. F. Beyers Naudé, doyen of church leaders in the struggle against apartheid, reminded us that Bonhoeffer would not have wanted us to ask about his relevance, but about the significance of Jesus Christ.

The contribution of women to the struggle against apartheid has been considerable.