Sentences with phrase «struggle against apartheid»

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

He has proposed no meaningful alternative at all, and his seeming attempt yesterday to liken his own brief political journey to the struggle against apartheid (as well as being extremely offensive to many people) justly invites only ridicule.

The exchanges marked a colourful session of prime minister's questions, which saw Mr Cameron ridicule Labour leader Ed Miliband's speech at the TUC march, when he compared protesters to the civil rights movement, the suffragettes and the struggle against apartheid.

They were: her most recent project, M - Theory, an interpretation of South Africa's struggle against apartheid; Becoming South Sudan, portraits of people taken in 2011 as their nation finally became independent; The Road to Tepeyac, which captures pilgrims in Mexico City; and Deep Blindness, which explores the connection between seeing and knowing.

And, while South Africa was deep in the throes of a draconian era, figures within the fight for African independence trail - blazed the struggle against apartheid.

The contrast between the found crate and the «reproduction» bottles might also reference the gap between the political context of the artist's boyhood (due perhaps to its black label, Carling was associated among South Africans with the struggle against apartheid) and his current professional success.

Sue Williamson has been a key figure on the South African art scene since the early 1980s when she produced A Few South Africans, a groundbreaking series of portrait prints featuring women in the struggle against apartheid.

Staff Riding, the local slang for train surfing, is a widespread phenomenon in Katlehong, one of the largest townships in South Africa and has played a key role in the history of the struggle against apartheid.

Staff Riding is part of a long - term project by Italian photographer Marco Casino about the township lifestyle 20 years later the struggle against apartheid.

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:

In the struggle against apartheid, one often overlooked group of crusaders was the coterie of black lawyers who overcame the Byzantine system that the government established oftentimes explicitly to block the paths of its black citizens from achieving justice.