How to Use anti-apartheid in a Sentence

anti-apartheid

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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
• The hero of the anti-apartheid struggle, Nelson Mandela, left the presidency in June 1999.
  — Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2023
• 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
• Party volunteers blasted hymns from the era of the anti-apartheid struggle, and danced the familiar jig known as toyi-toyi.
  — Lynsey Chutel, New York Times, 29 May 2024
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Prominent leaders of the anti-apartheid movement visiting India would address them.
  — Stephanie Nolen, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• In the heat of 1980s anti-apartheid pressure campaigns urging divestment from South Africa, appeals to neutrality would’ve understandably sounded like cynical attempts to evade moral responsibility.
  — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 1 June 2024

Last Updated: 8 Dec 2024