Sentences with phrase «during the apartheid era»

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.

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.

Christopher Rimmer christopherrimmer.com «A Zen - like calm is revealed in my work as I seek out a visual representation of the polar opposite to what I experienced growing up in South Africa during the Apartheid era.

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

Unlike the divestment project initiated against companies doing business in South Africa during the apartheid era, this project can rest not alone on grounds of morality or an investor's chartered purpose, but on financial grounds as well.

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.

Not exact matches

I know the word «Kefir» is actually an age old fermented product, and I don't mean to incite a controversy or debate over your name «Kefir»», but you must be aware that in South Africa it is probably the most offensive racial slur word directed against blacks (especially during the ignoble Apartheid era).

The exhibition of over 100 photographs, taken by Goldblatt during the past 50 years, focuses on South Africa's human landscape in the apartheid and post-apartheid eras.

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