How to Use anti-apartheid in a Sentence
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And the anti-apartheid movement had some of its most powerful allies in the US.
—David McKenzie, CNN, 19 Feb. 2023
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The hero of the anti-apartheid struggle, Nelson Mandela, left the presidency in June 1999.
—Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2023
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But in the antipodes and Africa, a myth built up around Rodriguez; in the latter region, his music was embraced by the anti-apartheid movement.
—Chris Morris, Variety, 9 Aug. 2023
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Nelson Mandela was still in prison, and the ruling parties in South Africa were arresting anti-apartheid protesters in the night.
—Bishop Michael Curry, CBS News, 9 Apr. 2023
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For one, the anti-apartheid protests did not spark the violent clashes with police and counterprotesters the way today’s demonstrations have.
—Jackie Valley, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 May 2024
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Some of the student protests, like the Civil Rights and anti-apartheid movements, helped achieve tangible goals that have become broadly accepted over time.
—Richard Fausset, New York Times, 4 May 2024
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That same year, the new South African government began rolling back apartheid policies, paving the way for historic elections in 1994 that were won in a landslide by anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela.
—Benjamin Case, The Conversation, 6 Feb. 2024
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The ruling African National Congress has long supported the Palestinians' quest for their own state, linking it to its own anti-apartheid battle.
—Gabriele Steinhauser, WSJ, 6 Nov. 2023
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Back in Carter’s home state, Atlanta became a hotbed for discussions around economic divestments as anti-apartheid protests grew.
—Kristi York Wooten, Rolling Stone, 15 May 2023
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Prominent leaders of the anti-apartheid movement visiting India would address them.
—Stephanie Nolen, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2023
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Buying seeds, according to a lot of these catalogues, is a political act—hence Fedco’s invoking the anti-apartheid movement to sell purple broccoli.
—Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2023
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Kentridge, who was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 1955, the son of anti-apartheid lawyers, came of age within a vividly brutal example of pseudoscientific thinking run amok.
—Susan Tallman, The New York Review of Books, 30 Nov. 2023
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There is some precedent for this in the anti-apartheid movement of the 1970s, but the anti-Russia reaction was much faster, bigger, stronger and pervasive, and driven in part by the relentless flogging from Yale professor Jeffrey Sonnenfeld.
—Jackson Fordyce, Fortune, 27 Feb. 2023
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The museum takes an unflinching look at South Africa’s brutal past and complicated present, and devotes significant space to Nelson Mandela and other heroes of the anti-apartheid movement.
—Elizabeth Heath, Travel + Leisure, 17 Apr. 2023
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The son of anti-apartheid lawyers, Kentridge is known for his distinctive artistic style that combines illustration, animation, and film to confront social justice issues.
—Sarah Engel, CNN, 21 Apr. 2023
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The highly influential environment activist , on the model of the international anti-apartheid dis-investment campaign that successfully brought pressure on South Africa's white-only regime.
—IEEE Spectrum, 13 Nov. 2012
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