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- President Carter announces sanctions against weapons sales to South Africa because of the deprivation of human rights; discusses his own energy and social security legislation programs.
- Date Issued:
- 1977-10-27T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- President Obama, speaking on the death of Nelson Mandela, says Mandela "no longer belongs to us; he belongs to the ages." Obama reflects on Mandela's legacy, his journey from prisoner to President of South Africa, describes Mandela's influence on his own life, and says Mandela bent the arc of the moral universe toward justice.
- Date Issued:
- 2013-12-05T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Robert D. Vassen, retired Associate Director of the English Language Center at Michigan State University is interviewed by John Metzler, African Studies Center Outreach Coordinator and Peter Limb, Michigan State University Librarian and Africana Bibliographer. Vassen discusses growing up in South Africa during the late 1940's and 1950's as an Indian and living in the Indian community of Fordsburg, near Johannesburg. Vassen says he was active in the Transvaal Indian Youth Congress and in 1962, joined the illegal military wing of the African National Congress (ANC). Forced into exile in London in 1964, Vassen says he continued to be an active member of the ANC and edited "Letters From Robben Island: a selection of Ahmed Kathrada's prison correspondence, 1964-1989."
- Date Issued:
- 2005-01-07T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Jeannette Unite, South African artist and instructor at the University of Cape Town, delivers a talk entitled "Above below : the hierarchy of labor in South African mines." Unite says that the goal of her art is to document the working conditions of South African miners in a visual format. She goes on to describe the hardships which South African miners face on a daily basis. She answers questions from the audience. The event is convened by John P. Beck, professor, Michigan State University School of Human Resources and Labor Relations.
- Date Issued:
- 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- President Jimmy Carter delivers a brief speech to Nashua, Hew Hampshire high school students then answers their questions about: the coal strike, civil service, Egypt, the federal budget, religion, plans for a second term, the CIA, energy, the Panama Canal Treaty, nuclear power, foreign aid, South Africa, Apartheid, and affording a college education.
- Date Issued:
- 1978-02-18T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection