Apartheid

Apartheid casualty's belated apology

BBC News (Free subscription) | yesterday

A South African university is finally reconciled with the family of an academic denied a job 40 years ago because of Apartheid.

Deal Done: India Gets Waiver At NSG For N-Deal

NHatky (Free subscription) | yesterday

Vienna, India’s attempt to end its nuclear isolation on Saturday finally found triumph, as the NSG gave a clean waiver for the nuclear deal. An official statement confirming the end of India’s nuclear apartheid came after hard bargaining with the four major opponents China, Austria, New Zealand and Ireland. The negotiations ...

Fenway High School Gets Lesson of a Lifetime

Bostonist (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008

Fenway High School students were recently treated to an unusual speaking duo: a murderer and the mother of the girl he murdered. Amy Biehl was killed 15 years ago in South Africa as she helped register voters toward the end of apartheid. Ntobeko Peni, one of a mob of men convicted of Amy's murder, served five years in prison and was granted amnesty by South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission....

Johannesburg's Dirty Little Secret

Alex Constantine's Blacklist (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008

By Alex Perry/Johannesburg Time/CNN Sep. 04, 2008 " ... Imagine the public relations nightmare facing an oil company that uses technology responsible for powering Nazi Germany, that propped up apartheid for decades and that operates a plant with the dubious distinction of being the world's biggest single-point source of carbon dioxide. ... " Opinions on oil companies fall into two camps. If you own...

New call to shoppers to stop buying Israeli goods, especially from illegal Israeli settlements, and to supermarkets to stop stocking such goods

International News (I.N. Daily) (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008

In July this year TV channel More4 and several national newspapers featured graphic reports about British supermarkets selling goods exported from illegal Israeli settlements in the Palestinian West Bank. This was a stark reminder of the continued apartheid policies of the Israeli state. At the same time genuine Palestinian producers are deliberately prevented [...]

High Schools Against Israeli Apartheid

Canadian Dimension Articles (Free subscription) | 09/04/2008

Canadian Dimension magazine, September/October 2008 issue In July 2005, 171 Palestinian civil-society organizations issued a call to the “international civil society organizations, and people of conscience all over the world, to impose broad boycotts and implement divestment initiatives against Israel, similar to those applied to South Africa in the apartheid era.” This call came after 57 [...]

Public sector staff 'should lose final salary pensions'

The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 09/04/2008

Public sector workers should lose their guaranteed final salary pensions to avoid a divisive "pensions apartheid" an independent report says today.

Rugby, 5 Apartheid, 0

New Statesman (Free subscription) | 09/04/2008

Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game that Made a Nation John Carlin Atlantic Books, 288pp, £18.99 Sport - what is it good for? Is it a distraction from the process of reflection and political action? A representation of the most obviously admirable in collaborative and individual endeavour? Or something in between? Whatever you may think, there is no doubt that the 1995 Rugby World Cup was...

[Blogs] NHS apartheid?

Labourhome (Free subscription) | 09/03/2008

The founding principle of the NHS was that it would offer free-at-the-point-of-delivery healthcare. Surely this should apply whether you go to hospital as a patient, as a visitor or a member of staff. It's simply not fair to expect patients or visitors to have to pay when they come to hospital, when they may be suffering personal anxiety, stress or grief. For this reason I welcome yesterday's announcement...

NHS apartheid?

Mike Ion (Free subscription) | 09/03/2008

The founding principle of the NHS was that it would offer free-at-the-point-of-delivery healthcare. Surely this should apply whether you go to hospital as a patient, as a visitor or a member of staff. It's simply not fair to expect patients or visitors to have to pay when they come to hospital, when they may be suffering personal anxiety, stress or grief. For this reason I welcome yesterday's announcement...

Tutu braais to 'South Africanness'

IOL (Free subscription) | 09/03/2008

He has conquered the forces of apartheid, fought the evils of homophobia... and now Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu has taken up a pair of tongs to braai the perfect T-bone.

New NHS apartheid row as Scotland moves to abolish hospital parking charges

Daily Mail (Free subscription) | 09/03/2008

Car parking charges at Scottish hospitals were scrapped today - prompting angry claims that English patients were the victims of a growing NHS 'apartheid'.

• New NHS apartheid row as Scotland moves to abolish hospital parking charges - Daily Mail on Sunday
• New NHS apartheid row as Scotland moves to abolish hospital parking charges - Evening Standard

David Craighead: Political activist against apartheid

The Independent (Free subscription) | 09/03/2008

David Craighead achieved eminence in Britain as an actuary, after his mistreatment by an authoritarian, anti-democratic government in his home country had forced him to leave South Africa in his late forties and start again in a new and far larger field.

My Excellent South African Adventure

My left wing (Free subscription) | 09/02/2008

South Africa SMILES!!! I did not go there expecting to see what I saw. I was amazed. Here is a country not even 15 years out of apartheid. A country with huge problems. Crime. Immigration from other, less stable surrounding countries. Rampant poverty. An AIDs epidemic . A huge drug and alcohol problem. Competing ethnicities with centuries of hostile history. An entrenched, largely racist white establishment...

Apartheid Museum Takes You Down Memory Lane

All Africa (Free subscription) | 09/01/2008

Museums play a significant role in the lives of people of different generations. It is also true that museums serve as useful educational tools, offering a valuable link between one generation and the next.

Jeremiah Wright Demands Race and Privilege are the Central Obama Campaign Issues

mrinternet | 04/29/2008

Attacks on him are really attacks on the black church, claims the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. in a speech to the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. Monday. Throughout his speech—which was more of a sermon to a willing congregation—Wright compared South Africa’s former apartheid to the current treatment of black Americans in the US Wright continued his railing against anyone who questions his

Nelson Mandela (90) is still on US Terrorist List.

petercasier | 04/12/2008

The African National Congress (ANC) was designated as a terrorist organisation by South Africa's old apartheid regime. Since that time, things changed. Apartheid is not legal anymore, Nelson Mandela was released from prison, and the ANC became the government. But Mandela remains on the US terrorist list.