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  • Listen to this, she wears an armband, you won't believe this—they had Apartheid Simulation Day at her school.†   (source)
  • And yet, my friends, good things have also happened in this traumatic century: the defeat of Nazism, the collapse of communism, the rebirth of Israel on its ancestral soil, the demise of apartheid, Israel's peace treaty with Egypt, the peace accord in Ireland.†   (source)
  • Malan's platform was known as apartheid.†   (source)
  • The president of South Africa had officially stated that the plagues were a plot by the West to reinstate apartheid—which between the blond component and fact that AIDS was mostly found in the non-Caucasian portion of the population had a certain amount of traction—and that the Glatun medicines were actually mind-control devices.†   (source)
  • But I never did like that apartheid...Does that mean that we're going to be the last?†   (source)
  • There was dwelling somewhere in the inward part of my mind a compulsion to write about slavery, to make slavery give up its most deeply buried and tormented secrets, which was every bit as necessary as the compulsion that drove me to write, as I had been writing today, about the inheritors of that institution who now in the 1940s floundered amid the insane apartheid of Tidewater Virginia—my beloved and bedeviled bourgeois New South family whose every move and gesture, I had begun to realize, were played out in the presence of a vast, brooding company of black witnesses, all sprung from the loins of bondage.†   (source)
  • Apartheid was an unwritten law and there was very little crossing over.†   (source)
  • The legacy of apartheid was glaringly obvious in South Africa's cities.†   (source)
  • The lighter your skin was in apartheid South Africa, the better off you were.†   (source)
  • They attempt to simulate the culture of apartheid.†   (source)
  • I told her about Apartheid Simulation Day, standing in the doorway.†   (source)
  • Apartheid's regulations extended even to clothing.†   (source)
  • De Klerk began a systematic dismantling of many of the building blocks of apartheid.†   (source)
  • The government's policies were perceived by many as a continuation of apartheid by other means.†   (source)
  • It confirmed to me how apartheid was a poison that bred moral decay in all areas.†   (source)
  • The policy of apartheid created a deep and lasting wound in my country and my people.†   (source)
  • In the Afrikaner's worldview, apartheid and the church went hand in hand.†   (source)
  • The government viewed any protest against apartheid as a crime.†   (source)
  • Let him free all who have been imprisoned, banished or exiled for their opposition to apartheid.†   (source)
  • It was never in our interest to prolong the agony of apartheid for any reason.†   (source)
  • Apartheid was a new term but an old idea.†   (source)
  • The campaign to improve conditions in prison was part of the apartheid struggle.†   (source)
  • The Group Areas Act was the foundation of residential apartheid.†   (source)
  • Verwoerd had proved to be both the chief theorist and master builder of grand apartheid.†   (source)
  • Let him say that he will dismantle apartheid.†   (source)
  • In apartheid South Africa, the penalties for these "crimes" could be as much as ten years in prison.†   (source)
  • I described it to Mr. de Klerk as apartheid in disguise, a "loser-takes-all" system.†   (source)
  • More than 8,500 people defied apartheid laws and went to jail.†   (source)
  • The religion of the Confederacy and apartheid will one day be subdued by the passage of years.†   (source)
  • He spoke seriously to his friends about smuggling weapons into that country and joining the struggle to end apartheid.†   (source)
  • One of the powerful voices to come out of resistance to apartheid in South Africa is Athol Fugard, best known for his play "Master Harold" ....and the Boys (1982).†   (source)
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  • Colored was a concept created during the apartheid era to further isolate the races—coloreds received more privileges than blacks did.†   (source)
  • On our third cup of tea, Mama began to tell me about her husband and his role as a freedom fighter during apartheid.†   (source)
  • We went to school together at the University of Cape Town and studied culture and reconciliation—a subject for which post-apartheid South Africa had become a living laboratory.†   (source)
  • To him this chance to see South Africa less than a decade after the end of apartheid was the perfect preparation for a real understanding of the Rhodes experience and legacy.†   (source)
  • I learned about the music of the apartheid era and how it was the musicians and artists, even more than the politicians and activists, who informed the world about the country's injustices.†   (source)
  • I also learned about ubuntu—the Xhosa word for humanity—and the power of authentic leadership as exhibited by giants like Nelson Mandela and a thousand other self-sacrificing visionaries who had managed the unforeseen transition from apartheid to democracy without a bloodbath.†   (source)
  • I grew up with the yoke of apartheid around my neck in many ways, and I am extremely bitter about that.†   (source)
  • With the end of apartheid, South Africans were finally allowed to travel wherever they wanted, and our sports teams could compete around the world.†   (source)
  • But I hated growing up under apartheid.†   (source)
  • The mere fact that the government was engaged in negotiations at all was a sign that they did not have the strength to sustain apartheid.†   (source)
  • The Prime Minister ignored Mandela's letter, and the government reinforced its attack on anti-apartheid activities.†   (source)
  • But as Oliver said at the time of the bombing, the armed struggle was imposed upon us by the violence of the apartheid regime.†   (source)
  • Even General Smuts realized the dangers of this harsh ideology, decrying apartheid as "a crazy concept, born of prejudice and fear."†   (source)
  • Mass protests against apartheid had continued throughout the 1950's, resulting in the deaths of dozens of Africans killed by the police.†   (source)
  • Goldreich and Mandela were joined by other workers, including a foreman, Mr. Jelliman, a retired white who supported the anti-apartheid movement.†   (source)
  • He had the courage to admit that a terrible wrong had been done to our country and people through the imposition of the system of apartheid.†   (source)
  • I was convinced that this child would be a part of a newgeneration of South Africans for whom apartheid would be a distant memory—that was my dream.†   (source)
  • Under apartheid, a black man lived a shadowy life between legality and illegality, between openness and concealment.†   (source)
  • The anti-apartheid struggle as a whole had captured the attention of the world; in 1984, Bishop Desmond Tutu was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.†   (source)
  • The government could ban anyone it suspected of anti-apartheid activity, whether or not there was evidence of such activity.†   (source)
  • The second was Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who selflessly fought the evils of racism during the most terrible days of apartheid.†   (source)
  • It was also a way of fooling the outside world into thinking that the government was reforming apartheid.†   (source)
  • Under the Suppression of Communism Act, the government outlawed the Communist Party—an ally of the ANC and other anti-apartheid organizations.†   (source)
  • Malan introduced the Group Areas Act—which he described as "the very essence of apartheid"—requiring separate urban areas for each racial group.†   (source)
  • It was not an apology for apartheid, but it went further than any other National Party leader ever had.†   (source)
  • Oliver declared that the armed struggle would intensify until the government was prepared to negotiate the abolition of apartheid.†   (source)
  • The very first step on the road to reconciliation, I said, was the complete dismantling of apartheid and all the measures used to enforce it.†   (source)
  • I would not mince words about the horrors of apartheid, but I said, over and over, that we should forget the past and concentrate on building a better future for all.†   (source)
  • The UDF had been created to coordinate protest against the new apartheid constitution in 1983, and the first elections to the segregated tricameral Parliament in 1984.†   (source)
  • The Day of Protest boosted our morale, made us realize our strength, and sent a warning to the Malan government that we would not remain passive in the face of apartheid.†   (source)
  • Though he resolutely opposed apartheid and refused to allow KwaZulu to become an "independent" homeland as the government wished, he was a thorn in the side of the democratic movement.†   (source)
  • In November, he announced that the National Security Management System, a secret structure set up under P. W. Botha to combat anti-apartheid forces, would be dissolved.†   (source)
  • Apart from the Suppression of Communism Act, two laws passed in 1950 formed the cornerstones of apartheid: the PopulationRegistration Act and the Group Areas Act.†   (source)
  • The government had decided to accelerate the program of "separate development" to show the world that apartheid allowed races their individual "freedom."†   (source)
  • The premise of apartheid was that whites were superior to Africans, Coloureds, and Indians, and the function of it was to entrench white supremacy forever.†   (source)
  • When Winnie was finally charged—six months later—I managed to send instructions that she be represented by Joel Carlson, a longtime anti-apartheid lawyer.†   (source)
  • Since 1953 this act had enforced what was known as "petty apartheid," segregating parks, theaters, restaurants, buses, libraries, toilets, and other public facilities, according to race.†   (source)
  • The UDF soon blossomed into a powerful organization that united over six hundred anti-apartheid organizations—trade unions, community groups, church groups, student associations.†   (source)
  • A group of experts at the U.N. urged a national convention for South Africa that would lead to a truly representative parliament, and recommended an amnesty for all opponents of apartheid.†   (source)
  • Professor Dash asked me whether I took any encouragement from the government's stated intention of repealing the mixed-marriage laws and certain other apartheid statutes.†   (source)
  • We wanted people to vote for the ANC not just because we had fought apartheid for eighty years, but because we were best qualified to bring about the kind of South Africa they hoped to live in.†   (source)
  • In December 1982, MK set off explosions at the unfinished Koeberg nuclear power plant outside Cape Town and placed bombs at many other military and apartheid targets around the country.†   (source)
  • I explained to Mr. de Klerk that we could not tell our supporters to relax sanctions until he had completely dismantled apartheid and a transitional government was in place.†   (source)
  • I told the crowd in no uncertain terms that apartheid had no future in South Africa, and that the people must not let up their campaign of mass action.†   (source)
  • I thanked the U.S. Congress for its anti-apartheid legislation and said the new South Africa hoped to live up to the values that created the two chambers before which I spoke.†   (source)
  • Shortly before his death he had led the Nationalists in the general election of 1966, in which the party of apartheid had increased its majority, winning 126 seats to the 39 achieved by the United Party, and the single seat won by the Progressive Party.†   (source)
  • I added that the ANC had not struggled against apartheid for seventy-five years only to yield to a disguised form of it and that if it was his true intention to preserve apartheid through the Trojan horse of group rights, then he did not truly believe in ending apartheid.†   (source)
  • I mentioned an editorial that I had recently read in Die Burger, the mouthpiece of the National Party in the Cape, implying that the group rights concept was conceived as an attempt to bring back apartheid through the back door.†   (source)
  • I ended by opening my arms to all South Africans of goodwill and good intentions, saying that "no man or woman who has abandoned apartheid will be excluded from our movement toward a nonracial, united and democratic South Africa based on one-person one-vote on a common voters' roll.†   (source)
  • To resolve the deadlock, the assembled nations agreed that a delegation of "eminent persons" would visit South Africa and report back on whether sanctions were the appropriate tool to help bring about the end of apartheid.†   (source)
  • I added that it was not in his interest to retain this concept, for it gave the impression that he wanted to modernize apartheid without abandoning it; this was damaging his image and that of the National Party in the eyes of the progressive forces in this country and around the world.†   (source)
  • Any man or woman who abandons apartheid will be embraced in our struggle for a democratic, nonracial South Africa; we must do everything we can to persuade our white compatriots that a new, nonracial South Africa will be a better place for all.†   (source)
  • In 1989, the UDF formed an alliance with the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) to form the Mass Democratic Movement (MDM), which then began organizing a countrywide "defiance campaign" of civil disobedience to challenge apartheid institutions.†   (source)
  • ON FEBRUARY 2, 1990, F. W. de Klerk stood before Parliament to make the traditional opening speech and did something no other South African head of state had ever done: he truly began todismantle the apartheid system and lay the groundwork for a democratic South Africa.†   (source)
  • While the ANC was demanding that the government normalize the situation in the country by ending the State of Emergency, releasing all political prisoners, and repealing all apartheid laws, the government was intent on first persuading the ANC to suspend the armed struggle.†   (source)
  • The policy was supported by the Dutch Reform Church, which furnished apartheid with its religious underpinnings by suggesting that Afrikaners were God's chosen people and that blacks were a subservient species.†   (source)
  • It was reported that as many as a million people personally witnessed our procession through the city, and to see the support and enthusiasm they gave to the anti-apartheid struggle was truly humbling.†   (source)
  • Thefirm provided legal assistance to Africans accused of violations of apartheid laws such as drinking from a whites-only fountain, riding a whites-only bus, not carrying an identification pass book (required of all Africans), having the wrong signature on a pass book, being unemployed, and being employed by the wrong place.†   (source)
  • The change was embodied in a decision which was taken to protest against apartheid legislation by peaceful, but unlawful, demonstrations against certain laws.†   (source)
  • Although there is a universal condemnation of apartheid, the communist bloc speaks out against it with a louder voice than most of the white world.†   (source)
  • Despite my objections to Ted Stone's theories of apartheid, his paranoia about my long hair and the new morality, I enjoyed jogging down to his house, picking up my mail, and then swimming off his dock.†   (source)
  • Attacks on the economic life-lines of the country were to be linked with sabotage on Government buildings and other symbols of apartheid.†   (source)
  • I did not mention the Indians in the first Author's Note largely because I did not want to confuse readers unnecessarily, but the existence of this minority is now much better known throughout the world because their position has become so desperate under apartheid legislation.†   (source)
  • Ruth, the wife of Joe Slovo, was a brave antiapartheid activist who had spent a number of months in prison.†   (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "anti-" in antiapartheid means against or opposite. This is the same pattern you see in words like antiviral, antiaircraft, and antisocial.
  • I explained that as political prisoners we saw protest to alter prison conditions as an extension of the antiapartheid struggle.†   (source)
  • I took advantage of this to thank the world's antiapartheid forces for the tremendous work they had done in pressing for sanctions, for the release of myself and fellow political prisoners, and for the genuine support and solidarity they had shown the oppressed people of my country.†   (source)
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