Word: apartheid
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...Work ceased for a month before "noticeable progress" by Ramu NiCo convinced the government to allow construction to continue. The dispute echoed another flare-up that erupted last year when locals armed with slingshots critically injured another three Chinese workers over what the P.N.G. nationals considered to be workplace apartheid: everything, from their food and toilets to salaries and dormitories, they alleged, was far inferior to those of the Chinese workers. "The Chinese think we are animals," says a welder named Nenge, who refuses to give me his full name lest he get fired from his job. "No days...
...Zuma taught himself to read and write, studied the inequities of apartheid and colonialism and, at 17, joined the ANC. Zuma says it was through stories of the Bhambatha rebellion, during which on June 10, 1906, the British imperial army massacred hundreds of Zulus in Mome Gorge, just below his home town, that he "came to understand and to be angry about colonial oppression." An old-fashioned, almost Victorian outlook remains. He may embrace polygamy - in a nation of millions of single mothers, Zuma calls it socially responsible - but the President disapproves of alcohol and television (both are "killing...
Faust’s speech said that the program can be seen as part of a more general response to endemic underdevelopment and high crime levels in South Africa, despite its triumph over apartheid almost twenty years...
Speaking in Soweto—a city symbolic of the struggle against apartheid after protesting schoolchildren were brutally gunned down there in 1976—President Faust emphasized the importance of education in civil rights struggles and compared the South African struggle to the American civil rights movement...
...those stories lies a common struggle for liberation, for universal rights before the law, and for human dignity against the evils of slavery and apartheid,” she said in her speech. “So if the journey from Boston to Johannesburg is a long one in miles, it is for countless Americans a very short one in emotional resonance. I am one of those Americans...