1 January 2000
It took 30 years, the death of her father and the end of apartheid for Sandra Laing – a black child born to white parents – to find her mother. This is her story.
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This video is dedicated to one of the greatest cities on Earth. Things are looking better than before now that the World Cup is coming. This city will rise to the glory that it deserves. Enjoy.
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Dr. Khalid Al-Mansour is an International Attorney and Businessman. His college education was obtained at Howard University, where he majored in Philosophy and Logic, and at the University of California School of Law at Berkeley where he received his Doctor of Jurisprudence degree.
Dr. Al-Mansour has spent most of his adult life as a businessman/lawyer, intellectual, religious activist, author and teacher. His business and professional interests include co-founding the International Law Firm of Al-Waleed, Al-Talal & Al-Mansour, representing the O.P.E.C. interest of the famous Los Angeles trail, I.M.A.W.C. vs O.P.E.C; and serving as a co-founder and director of the Saudi African Bank (SAB), the United Bank for Africa (UBA) and the World United Bank for Africa (WUBA).
The following excerpt was taken from the lecture given by Dr. Khalid Al-Mansour took place in South Africa
The Topic was Christianity, Communism or Islam: Which is the solution to South Africa’s problem?
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Apartheid simply means ’separateness’.
An Act was introduced in South Africa in 1948 that decreed that from then on, blacks would be ’separated’ from whites. The Act, in fact, gave favour and supremacy to whites.
As a result, strict segregation orders were enforced; forbidding blacks access to the same rights, social and educational provision and public places as whites.
Many homes of blacks were confiscated and given to whites; blacks were forced to live in extremely poor conditions. They had no voice and if they did protest, they were dealt with very violently.
The white dominated ‘Dutch Reformed Church’ supported apartheid, arguing from the Bible that:
*South Africa’s Apartheid laws were God’s will.
*Races should be kept apart.
*Whites should have better opportunities as they heed God’s ‘favour’.
*Mixed marriages and relationships are discouraged so races remained ‘pure’.
*God is the ‘Great Divider’. Genesis 1 supports this, in that, God divides everything into separate categories – white is divided from black and meant to be separate.
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“The Bottom Line” is part a powerful new documentary series by two-time Academy Award nominee Connie Field that shines light on the global citizens movements that took on South Africas apartheid regime. This is the story of the first-ever international grassroots campaign to successfully use economic pressure to help bring down a government. Recognizing the apartheid regimes dependence on its financial connections to the West, citizens all over the world, from employees of Polaroid to a General Motors director, from student account-holders in Barclays Bank to consumers who boycott Shell gas, all refuse to let business with South Africa go on as usual. Boycotts and divestment campaigns bring the anti-apartheid movement into the lives and communities of people around the world, helping everyday people understand and challenge Western economic support for apartheid. Faced with attacks at home and growing chaos in South Africa, international companies pull out in a mass exodus, causing a financial crisis in the now-isolated South Africa and making it clear that the days of the apartheid regime are numbered.
For more information about the series, visit http://www.clarityfilms.org. To get involved in the global engagement campaign around the series, please visit http://activevoice.net/haveyouheard.html.
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The brand is less Proudly South African and more Proudly South Afrikaans. Proudly South African is a post-Apartheid campaign to promote South African companies, products and services designed to create jobs and economic growth. The majority of the business involved are exclusively White owned but are treated internationally as indigenious fair-trade goods.
BEE: A theoretically well structured scheme which in practice produces an elite of poorly skilled poorly adept people who do little to improve quality or propagate equality. BEE profits Indians and Chinese more than the average African. The Africans that do profit from it are usually the most corrupt living beyond their means.
Because at the end of Apartheid conditions were given 2 protect white power and the ANC government made a deal in exchange for so-called governance. Truth and Reconciliation was another part of the deal 2 protect whites. Based on these trade-offs SA Africans were allowed to transition into the current dilemma.
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Aired on June 14, 2007
Almost every night on the news, there are images of people protesting something, somewhere. Too often, the story is reduced to journalistic shorthand telling you almost nothing about why people in that part of the world are angry enough to drop whatever they’re doing, get together with a bunch of other citizens and take a stand.
Looking at pictures from South Africa over the past couple of day, has made us want to answer the question: why are these people screaming?
Hundreds of thousands of people in the streets all over South Africa and from the coverage, you’d think it was a simple labour dispute. Public sector workers insisting on a 12% raise and the government offering 7 and a quarter. In fact, it’s about much more than that.
Thirteen years after its historic victory over apartheid, the ANC government has failed to deliver on its core promise to share the country’s storied wealth with its black majority.
The euphoria of 1994 is a bittersweet memory. The ANC’s embrace of business-friendly policies has certainly produced impressive economic growth and “sound fundamentals” but none of that eases the brutal reality that poverty and crime, the breeding ground for the country’s AIDS pandemic, are simply out of control.
The number of South Africans living on less than a dollar a day has doubled since Apartheid fell, from 2 to four million. And more than one in four South Africans are now shack-dwellers living in shantytowns, many without running water or electricity. Believe it or not, for a huge number of South Africans, living conditions are actually worse than they were under apartheid.
COSATU, the South African trade union association behind today’s strike, has actually been a loyal junior partner to the ANC government for all this time, getting weaker and weaker while the country spiralled into inequality. With this huge mobilization, it may finally be waking up.
But the sound on the streets of Jo’burg, Pretoria, and Soweto is not just people screaming for higher wages. What we’re hearing is the searing sound of a dream betrayed, of a legendary democracy that has delivered racial equality, but maintained economic apartheid. The noise of people realizing that they’re going to have to get up and fight for justice all over again.
LINKS: http://www.cosatu.org.za/homep.htm
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Paul Casarin created Imagine Leadership South Africa, as a primer to discuss the value and importance of leadership amongst South Africans. It is based on Nitin Nohria and Amanda Pepper of Harvard Business School’s Leadership Initiative collaborated with XPLANE.
“South African is teaming with icons and leaders for future generations to look up to. My unique contribution was a South African submission to the discussion.”
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VERSION 2. First uploaded in July 2009.
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This is footage of the increasing civil unrest and township violence that led to the government declaring a State of Emergency on 20 July 1985.
Then-President of South Africa P.W. Botha declared the State of Emergency in 36 magisterial districts. Areas affected were the Eastern Cape, and the PWV region (”Pretoria, Witwatersrand, Vereeniging”). Three months later the Western Cape was included as well. During this state of emergency about 2,436 people were detained under the Internal Security Act. This act gave police and the military sweeping powers. The government could implement curfews controlling the movement of people. The president could rule by decree without referring to the constitution or to parliament.
Four days before the ten-year commemoration of the Soweto uprising, another state of emergency was declared on 12 June 1986 to cover the whole country. The government amended the Public Security Act, expanding its powers to include the right to declare certain places “unrest areas”. This allowed the state to employ extraordinary measures to crush protests in these areas. Television cameras were banned from entering “unrest areas”. The state broadcaster, the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) provided propaganda in support of the government. This version of reality was challenged by a range of pro-ANC alternative publications.
In 1989, with the State of Emergency extended to a fourth year, Prime Minister Botha met Mandela and agreed to work for a peaceful solution to the conflict in the country. Talks commenced with the ANC, prominent business leaders, the Commonwealth and the Eminent Persons Group.
The state of emergency continued until 1990, when F.W. de Klerk became the State President, and lifted the 30-year ban on leading anti-apartheid groups the African National Congress, the smaller Pan Africanist Congress and the South African Communist Party. He also made his first public commitment to release jailed ANC leader Nelson Mandela, returned to press freedom and suspended the death penalty.
The rest is history…
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This is an opening for a documentary I directed, edited and produced about South Africa. Kellogg School of Management (Nortwestern University) Has a Global Initiative management program (Gim) Students learn about Global business environments that allows two weeks abroad to do field research. Students meet with high level government officials and business executives to complete research needed for their final project. Through this African journey, the students have a much better understanding of the conflicts and struggles of the African people after Apartheid, and come up with strategies and solutions to help solve some devastating economic problems. There are will be many more scenes from this doc on my you tube site. Enjoy! If interested in contacting me or inquiring about my production company, spirit of play in Chicago call 847-903-3970 or e-mail me at gigih7@mac.com
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