Sentences with phrase «apartheid regime»

Only the most paranoid and / or prejudicial of persons would read what you have quoted as a direct (or even guarded) comparison of the Conservatives with the (former) apartheid regime in South Africa.

Coming of age as the South African apartheid regime was slowly and violently being destroyed, Kentridge developed a lens that reflected his acute awareness of his environs and the politics, and sought to speak of what he referred to in a recent Financial Times article as the «immovable rock of apartheid».

In Baltic states Russian language speakers (up to 40 % of the population) were stripped of citizenship (in violation of Article 15 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights) and were instituted apartheid regimes.

Twenty - three years after the end of the racist, repressive apartheid regime, South Africa remains a country with enormous resources and great wealth but also massive inequality and deep poverty.

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.

The end of the rigidly controlled apartheid regime in 1994 ushered in an era of new freedoms.

In yet another variation, Nelson Mandela's «Speech from the Dock» embraced but reshaped the concept of civil disobedience in fighting to dismantle the South African Apartheid regime (Mandela, Nelson, «Speech from the Dock» (20 April 1964)(Pretoria Supreme Court, South Africa)[Mandela]-RRB-.

What will establish Madiba's giant stature in history was not only his prolonged fight for social justice and racial equality, but his determination, following the end of the apartheid regime, that there would be reconciliation, not revenge.

Nelson Mandela galvanized the socially responsible investment (SRI) movement when he called for people and institutions to sell holdings that supported South Africa's apartheid regime.

Opponents of the apartheid regime focused their ire on the companies that were directly invested in the country.

The sense that the kingdom was at hand and that a new age was dawning gives coherence to Jesus» ministry, but such a belief would have been controversial, just as a generation ago many white South Africans could not see how the apartheid regime could ever be changed.

In effect, we established an apartheid regime in the occupied territories immediately following their capture.

Johannesburg (CNN)- Miffed by a visa delay that led the Dalai Lama to cancel a trip to South Africa, Archbishop Desmond Tutu lashed out at his government Tuesday, saying it had acted worse than apartheid regimes and had forgotten all that the nation stood for.

My antinationalistic Zionism, apart from my gut aversion to all apartheid regimes, is born of my belief as a Christian that «salvation is of Israel,» that the Jews are chosen of God and indisputably have suffered terribly in bearing the ontological burden of the election God has laid upon them.

The Zulus supported the apartheid regime and are a thorn in the side of the new government, which is dominated by the Xhosas.

Aruna stressed that the poor treatment being meted out to Nigerians was particularly insulting given the role Nigeria played in ending the apartheid regime in South Africa.

I don't have a problem with Norman Baker comparing the Conservative - led govt with the apartheid regime.

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.

His murderers then poured boiling water in his ears and nostrils — and all that happened on February 2, 1990 the day the apartheid regime announced it would release anti-apartheid hero Nelson Mandela.

Historically, India has perceived Israel as an apartheid regime.

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

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

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

According to him, «trusts that the prolific academic, renowned for preparing the economic blueprint for the transition of Zimbabwe from an Apartheid regime to an independent black nation, will be honoured for his life - long efforts to advance Nigeria's economic growth through his timely, patriotic works and counsel to past governments.

Senator Ahmed Lawan, who threatened northern retaliation of the policy if not reversed, likened the proposed policy to the Apartheid regime in South Africa, where the blacks were expected to carry cards in form of pass, to access white dominated areas.

Sincere as it patently is, and perfectly competently made, Goodbye Bafana progresses through the last years of the apartheid regime at a snail's pace.

(In French, Russian and English with subtitles) Gangster's Paradise: Jerusalema (R for violence, profanity, drug use and sexuality) Fact - based gangsta» saga revisiting a Sowetan street hoodlum's (Rapulana Seiphemo) rise from petty criminal to powerful crime boss in the wake of the fall of South Africa's Apartheid regime.

The protesters say the festival is thereby recognizing the «apartheid regime» of Israel.

The Forgiven (Unrated) Truth and reconciliation drama, set in South Africa after the fall of the Apartheid regime, revolving around Archbishop Desmond Tutu's (Forest Whitaker) meeting with a confessed murderer (Eric Bana) seeking redemption.

His younger brother, Sasha, said that the struggles of the apartheid regime shaped their childhood and Mr. Polakow - Suransky's years in public high school in Ann Arbor.

It recounts one of the most hated policies of the apartheid regime: the forced removal of families from their homes across the country as regions were designated «white only.»

Having served over the centuries as a penal settlement, leper colony and lunatic asylum, its notoriety has, more recently, centred around the fact that President Nelson Mandela and many of his colleagues were imprisoned here during the final years of the apartheid regime.

The apartheid regime was one that caused a lot of heartache.

Adams» talents as an artist were recognised early on but he had to constantly battle the apartheid regime to become a painter... [at the Slade he won a] scholarship to the University of Munich and worked with the Austrian expressionist Oskar Kokoschka, who admired and influenced his work.

The international political scene at the time, characterised by the brutality of facts and events such as the Vietnam War, the apartheid regime in South Africa and the consequences of imperialism, constantly reverberates in Golub's painting, like an ever - present murmur that can not be silenced.

For Geers the industrial phenomenon of razor mesh production — based on separation and othering, is a metaphor for the predicament of South Africa during Apartheid — as well as a metaphor for the artist who was born into the apartheid regime and struggled to understand the violence he was born out of and simultaneously born into.

Not just aiming at the supply of capital but destroying the demand for goods sheared the Apartheid regime's economic lifeline to the rest of the world more than either policy could have done alone.

On the recent Do the Math tour, Bill McKibben, Rev. Lennox Yearwood, author Naomi Klein and other speakers and a team of organizers launched a campaign calling on churches, colleges, and others to divest their stock portfolios of investments in fossil fuel corporations — as was done in the the 1970s and 1980s as part of delegitimizing the apartheid regime in South Africa.

This argument has worked in a big way exactly one time in American history, about a generation ago, when the apartheid regime still ruled in South Africa.

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.

While these apartheid regimes leave much to be criticized, it is clear that the most active competition to these regimes is exactly these terrorist groups.

Since the Apartheid regime declared gambling illegal, the location offered Sun City a distinct advantage.