Sentences with phrase «during apartheid»

DiNapoli and previous comptrollers have used the fund as a vehicle for social change in the past, divesting funds from South Africa during the apartheid era, and from tobacco companies, as well as freezing and then ending investments in guns manufacturers after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.

Noah's coming - of - age during apartheid in South Africa vividly comes to life in this incisive, funny, and fresh memoir, which candidly addresses the complexities of race, gender, and class, as well as South Africa's emergence from apartheid, and sparkles with moments of epic teen awkwardness and nervy entrepreneurial success.

The archbishop is Desmond Tutu (Forest Whitaker), who was chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), which sought to investigate the brutal politically inspired abuses committed during the apartheid years.

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.

Learn what life is like for the people who live here and get a history lesson of what it was like to live in Johannesburg during Apartheid.

A «grey» area during apartheid, it was declared white and bulldozed, forcing 60 000 people of «colour» on to the Cape Flats.

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.

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.

Residential segregation in East London during apartheid.

These not so subtle marketing techniques are a clear nod to the signs incorporated during apartheid.)

She'll play Trevor's mom Patricia, who raised her mixed - race son during Apartheid when children born of interracial relationships were illegal.

Hazel is especially eloquent in discussing the near - total censorship she faced during the apartheid years.

Why it's worth it: Small, compact and highly interesting one can not leave here untouched by the emotional account of the once multiracial area destroyed during apartheid, when its 60 000 inhabitants were forcibly removed.

It was later bought by the ATKV - Afrikaanse Taal en Kultuurvereniging (Afrikaans Language and Culture Organisation) and turned into a holiday resort for its members during the apartheid years.

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.

The artist draws his subject matter from early township life during apartheid in Johannesburg, South Africa.

The idea of returning home tells the various stories during the Apartheid struggle of men who had left their family homes in search of labor, migrating to the mines or cities, or even political exiles who had taken a pact to leave the shores of South Africa as a means to take up arms against a brutalist regime.

Billy Monk was a bouncer at the Catacombs club in Cape Town, and his excellent snapshots taken in the late 1960's comprise the exhibit's only examples of interracial fraternization during apartheid (which was, in fact, illegal).

Segregation during apartheid limited each photographer's access to their own race; David Goldblatt (white) and Earnest Cole (black) are used to inform each other.

The exhibition at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco featured more than two dozen artists and collectives whose work reflects the contemporary perspectives overlooked during apartheid.

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.

i) The population categories White, Coloured, Black and Indian were used during the Apartheid (which privileged White people) era in South Africa to differentiate between and discriminate against groups of people on the basis of so - called «race».

An icon of political repression in South Africa during the apartheid era, the truck's presence as a colorfully - adorned place - marker, painted over with striking new patterns by artist Ralph Ziman, made for a fitting first note of the works on view inside, images from a thriving circuit of galleries and artists looking both to Africa's past and future for inspiration.

Sept. 3 — Dec. 6, 2014 South Africa Photographer Ernest Cole at New York University New York Pioneering black photojournalist Ernest Cole (1940 - 1990) documented the lives and experiences of black South Africans during apartheid.

The comptroller said the city should explore the same type of ban it had during apartheid in South Africa, which included prohibiting certain investments with the country.

Trevor Noah's memoir Born a Crime is unforgettably poignant, funny and full of insights about growing up in South Africa during apartheid.

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.

Born and raised in South Africa, Leppan grew up during the apartheid era and saw his country undergo many changes.

I was born in Kimberley, South Africa (SA), in the late 1960s and grew up during the apartheid era.

For example, Princeton economists Anne Case and Angus Deaton used data on black students in South Africa during apartheid to measure the effects of class size.

They were used as experimental attack dogs in South Africa during apartheid.

History fans go on a boat tour to Robben Island and everybody should visit District Six museum (at least once) to learn what happened in Cape Town and South Africa during apartheid.

All artists and those in the culture industry must boycott the White House as they did in South Africa during Apartheid.»)

During the Apartheid era, mural art was a kind of protest painting.

Founded in 1966, during Apartheid, Goodman has supported the careers of South African artists like David Goldblatt, Broomberg & Chanarin, Robert Hodgins, William Kentridge, Tracey Rose, Sue Williamson and Nelisiwe Xaba.

South African Photographer Ernest Cole at New York University Pioneering black photojournalist Ernest Cole (1940 - 1990) documented the lives and experiences of black South Africans during apartheid.

Charles was the first black student to graduate with a BA in Fine Arts from the University of Witwatersrand, during apartheid South Africa.

Earlier works made with bedding pulled from South African prisons, titled after incarcerated black leaders throughout history, incorporate «keffer sheet,» a fabric named for the derogatory term for a black person used in South Africa during apartheid.

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.

Mementoes of District Six is an immersive installation that humanises the destruction of an entire area in South Africa during Apartheid.

It was used by Germany during World War II and by South Africa during the apartheid era, in both cases because the countries were blocked by international embargoes from buying oil.

Born in Cape Town, South Africa during apartheid and raised in South Africa, Canada, and the US, Robert understands the value in persevering to find the life and home you have desired to create.