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2010 (ban applied in 2009) [25] Ron Killings (aka R-Truth) United States: Professional wrestler Criminal record. [26] [27] Returned in 2011 for a WWE live event (ban applied in 2008). [28] Winnie Mandela South Africa: Anti-apartheid activist and wife of Nelson Mandela: Criminal record, including a conviction of kidnapping and assault. [29] 2018 ...
Ruth First: Banned 1960 to 1982 (killed in exile by police letter bomb). Ela Gandhi: Banned in 1975. Alcott 'Skei' Gwentshe: Banned November 1952; sentenced to 9 years in prison for violating the banning order, 26 March 1953. Bertha Gxowa: Banned in 1960. [28] Adelaine Hain: Banned in 1963. [29] Viola Hashe: Banned in 1963 until her death in ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 20 February 2025. South African system of racial separation This article is about apartheid in South Africa. For apartheid as defined in international law, see Crime of apartheid. For other uses, see Apartheid (disambiguation). This article may be too long to read and navigate comfortably. Consider ...
The privileging of the Han people in ethnic minority areas outside of China proper, such as the Uyghur-majority Xinjiang and the central government's policy of settlement in Tibet, and the alleged erosion of indigenous religion, language and culture through repressive measures (such as the Han Bingtuan militia in Xinjiang) and sinicization have been likened to "cultural genocide" and apartheid ...
Revolutionary, anti-apartheid dissident, leader of African National Congress, later first post-apartheid President of South Africa: Banned after the apartheid regime of South Africa designated the ANC as a terrorist organization in 1960, requiring Mandela to receive a waiver from the U.S. Secretary of State to visit the United States.
Although banned from the Olympic Games due to its policy of apartheid, it was not banned from the Paralympics until 1980, and Canada, as host country, did not object to its participation. These were, however, to be its last Paralympics before the dismantling of apartheid; The Netherlands , as hosts of the 1980 Games , declared South Africa's ...
Women in Afghanistan will now be forbidden from speaking and showing their faces in public.The country’s Taliban rulers issued the ban under new laws. They were approved by Afghanistan’s ...
The real estate business practice of "blockbusting" was a for-profit catalyst for white flight, and a means to control non-white migration. By subterfuge, real estate agents would facilitate black people buying a house in a white neighborhood, either by buying the house themselves, or via a white proxy buyer, and then re-selling it to the black ...