South Africa is a former apartheid state that underwent a largely peaceful transition to democracy in the mid-1990s. Symbolically, the fact that South Africa is bringing the case may have particular resonance. However, South Africa has itself been accused of thwarting the1948 U.N. Genocide Conven...
The BBBEE Act, or Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment Act, is a South African law that aims to fix the unfair economic situation left behind by apartheid. It does this by encouraging companies to include more Black people in ownership, management, skills development, and other areas of thei...
The IOC still carries emotional scars from the peak period of more than 100 countries combined staging full boycotts of three straight Summer Games from 1976 to 1984. The 1976 Montreal Olympics was hit mostly by African countries protesting New Zealand taking part after its rugby team toured...
gender inequalityracial inequalityemployment outcomesThis paper analyzes whether trade liberalization in South Africa affected the racial and gender composition of employment in the mid-1990s. We identify the effedoi:10.2139/ssrn.2518024Bilge Erten
There are other reasons for countries to go nuclear. Apartheid era South Africa acquired a nuclear arsenal of a half dozen warheads to intimidate neighboring states in a region where it was isolated. Israel’s nuclear arsenal appears to have been constructed for the same reasons. The good news...
In the 1980s, under pressure from socially responsible investors, many companies, including General Motors and Coca-Cola, divested from South Africa, hastening the end of apartheid in South Africa [1]. Throughout history, inducing investable companies to be more socially responsible has been the ...
The false document claimed that America supported the system of apartheid in South Africa and persecuted Black Americans, accusations that U.S. Pres. Jimmy Carter could not let stand. Everyone is susceptible to disinformation; it is easy to spread disinformation without ill intentions. Unlike ...
Change is occurring swiftly in South Africa, but history is still perceptible beneath the surface of present circumstances and events; the effects of apartheid are deeply ingrained in the bodies and minds of individuals who experienced them. In developing nations such as South Africa, the economy ...
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Like, Mitt Romney’s zillion-dollar-a-plate fundraisers seem to always be pretty full. It can’t literally be in a rich person’s self-interest to buy a plate there. But a lot of rich people could have conservative-libertarian-pro-business ideas that encourage them to quasi-altruistically...