Sentences with phrase «white minority»

His generation literally gave up most of their adult lives to fight to liberate black people from the yoke of white minority rule.

At the same time, the distinct encounters of the settlers in Algoa Bay or the Natal colony laid the groundwork for the system of white minority rule — Apartheid — that was codified over a century later.

Nelson Mandela the first Black to be elected South African President, was once in jail with a life sentence for the charge of «treason», imposed by a Nazi - like White minority ruling - National party Regime that ruled South Africa for more than 70 years, and he went on to become the President of a fully integrated South Africa.

At that point, Mandela assured the apprehensive white minority that despite the fact that, «Fear has made you an unjust and brutal people, when we come to power, there will be no revenge.»

Nevertheless, it is promising to note that «Tee - Jay» has a substantial white minority student body (16 percent), while Freeman has a sizable black minority (13 percent).

The contempt with which a sizable white minority — in Congress and around the country — views the president bears witness to these enduring stereotypes.

The dominant gray and the white minority colors make this swing absolutely lovely to look at and buy it for your baby just as most baby products should be.

The dominant party is usually a former liberation movement which fought to end colonialism or white minority rule.

While seeking independence, Southern Rhodesia's white minority was strongly opposed to black participation in government.

Apartheid is a word describing the racist segregation policies of South Africa before these policies were abolished by the ANC under the leadership of Nelson Mandela in the 90s; it is a word that the white minority themselves used to describe their system of control, domination, subjugation and humiliation of the indigenous black African majority.

(The white minority could play an outsized role in the race.)

Another tendency of some papers is to ignore the interests of the white minority on the grounds that they have long been overprivileged.

In 2014 the gallery is also proud to represent Katharine Cooper, a South African photographer who received the Photography prize of the Academie des beaux - arts» for her documentary on the white minority in South Africa «White Africans.

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.