Sentences with phrase «under apartheid»

(In Dutch with subtitles) The World Unseen (PG - 13 for sexuality, violence and mature themes) Homoerotic drama, set in South Africa under apartheid during the Fifties, about the forbidden love which unexpectedly blossoms between an East Indian café owner (Sheetal Sheth) and a pregnant, married woman (Lisa Ray) also of Subcontinent extraction.

If that were to be nullified because of the laws of another country, then — for example — a marriage between two people of different races could be ruled invalid if they had lived under apartheid in South Africa or in one of the many states that once banned «miscegenation.»

At the other end are the print organs of the black labor unions and black communities, which focus on specific grievances that stem from daily coping with life under apartheid.

«When we used to apply for passports under the apartheid government, we never knew until the last moment what their decision was,» Tutu said at a news conference.

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

Nunn began taking photographs professionally in the early 1980s in South Africa and is well - known for images taken during the struggle period under Apartheid rule and from the transition to democracy in the 1990s.

Eight of the 20 states reporting the highest numbers of students attending schools under apartheid conditions are located in the South or Border states, a significant retrenchment on civil rights progress.

Even though we're some years removed and there is healing and we're starting to see the first South Africans born not under Apartheid, still seeing the pain and destruction of that society really opened my eyes and made me think about what happens if we don't fix our inequality issues in the US?

History and political buffs will want to see World Heritage site Robben Island, which was used as a maximum - security political prison under apartheid; former president Nelson Mandela was famously held there.

Do the historical facts of the moral collapse of liberal democracy drive the church into a status confessionis like the Confessing Church faced in Nazi Germany or Christians in South Africa faced under apartheid?

He talked about what it was like to write and produce plays under apartheid.

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

There's a very dark comic side to this story, in which blacks and whites come together to treat another group worse than blacks were ever treated under apartheid.

But given that the crimes — the murders of at least 10 women, some of whom were prostitutes — took place in South Central Los Angeles it's hardly surprising, according to London - born Broomfield, who describes Los Angeles as operating under apartheid.

«In My Country,» directed by John Boorman, dramatizes the actions of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which was formed by President Nelson Mandela to offer amnesty to those who had committed human rights abuses under apartheid, provided they told the whole truth and could prove they followed orders.

As Albie Sachs, a former South African activist who defended people charged under apartheid's repressive laws, told Legal Affairs magazine in 2004, «The ex-NUSAS types are determined, mature, resolute,» he said.

But the South African school system under apartheid was obviously unique; in some districts, the average class size reached 80 students.

In direct, honest voices, 12 South African teens talk about their diverse experiences under apartheid and the way they see their country now.

From there, the eye might wander toward Alighiero Boetti for a similarly colored Map of the World, in the photographs of Africa and America by Carrie Mae Weems, or Stone Flag by Robin Rhode as a shattered remnant of human labor under apartheid, as photographed elsewhere by David Goldblatt.

Gunn - Salie's graduate exhibition titled Witness presented a site - specific body of work focusing on still unresolved issues of forced removals under apartheid, working with veteran residents of District Six, an area in central Cape Town where widespread forced removals occurred.

The son of Eastern European immigrants, documentary photographer Goldblatt came of age under apartheid and observed the increasing entrenchment of racial inequality in his country.

She performs regularly as a vocalist in the soul, folk and jazz idioms, and, as a doctoral candidate in African Studies and Art History at Harvard, continues to chip away at her dissertation on the first generation of black South African photojournalists under Apartheid.

Mohau Modisakeng's meditative self - portraiture uses the language of dreams and visions to communicate a sense of suppressed trauma, evoking the scars which persist from violence enacted under Apartheid.

Films, sound works, photographs and installations highlight «botanical nationalism» and other legacies of colonialism, plant migration, bio-piracy, flower diplomacy under apartheid, the role of classification and naming of plants as well as the garden planted by Mandela and his fellow inmates in Robben Island prison.

«The book depicts a 54 - floor apartment block in Johannesburg built in 1976 for a white elite under apartheid rule,» the Photographers» Gallery explains.

Big corporate polluters cut secret deals with Eskom under apartheid.

These commissions are a creation of the last half of the twentieth century; possibly the most well - known is the South African TRC set up in 1995 to help deal with what happened under apartheid.

And I'm not convinced the past giants of post-war Labour - such as Clement Attlee, Ernest Bevin, David Owen or Tony Crossland - men who had to stand up to the menace of the Communist bloc, European fascism, Chile under Pinochet or South Africa under Apartheid, would either.

Born and based in Johannesburg, he often draws on personal experience in constructing narratives of life under apartheid.

After growing up under apartheid in South Africa, Nazira Karodia forged an academic career and now works to empower scientists from minority groups

Noah, 32, who grew up under apartheid, contends that his background gives him a different perspective on the GOP candidate.

Under apartheid, even prisoners were treated differently depending on their racial origin: White prisoners got the most privileges, followed by those of Indian origin, while black people got the least.

Companies targeted by divestment campaigns — whether against firms involved in South Africa under apartheid, Darfur conflicts or this current carbon struggle — historically have responded that divestment does not affect their bottom lines.

Yvette Christiansë was born in South Africa under apartheid and emigrated with her family via Swaziland to Australia at the age of eighteen.

* Under Apartheid, citizens were classified into three race categories: White, Coloured (people of mixed race), and Black (or Bantu).

Go on a journey into the history of those heroes who helped forge South Africa into the Rainbow Nation, bringing freedom to the country, and get a multi-perspective view of how life was under apartheid.

Muholi grew up under Apartheid, in the «Bantu education» system that ensured that blacks would receive a substandard education and remain in the working class.

Born in Cape Town, South Africa, under apartheid, Dumas moved to the Netherlands in 1976, where she came to prominence in the mid-1980s.

Under apartheid, Resistance art maintained a clear and important precedent.

Artist Conrad Botes grew up in South Africa under Apartheid.

He points out that under apartheid the white minority government neglected to provide reliable public transportation for the majority of South Africans — until mostly black individuals with an entrepreneurial spirit decided to start an informal taxi service.