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Tony Karon
Tony Karon is a South African-born journalist and former anti-Apartheid activist. He is currently Al Jazeera America's senior online executive producer. He was formerly the Senior Editor at Time Magazine, Time.com. He is originally from Cape Town, South Africa, and has been living in New York City since 1993. He studied at the University of Cape Town, and in the 1980s, he was a prominent anti-apartheid activist in student movement NUSAS. He joined Time (magazine), TIME Magazine in 1997, and was a Senior Editor for close to 20 years, providing commentary on world affairs. In the past he worked as an activist for the banned African National Congress in South Africa. In April 2013, he was hired as a senior online executive producer of the upcoming Al Jazeera America, Al Jazeera's all-digital video channel, AJ+.http://america.aljazeera.com/update/andrea-stone-and-tony-karon-join-al-jazeera-america References External linksTony Karon home page "Rootless Cosmopolitan" Livi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Apartheid
Apartheid (, especially South African English: , ; , "aparthood") was a system of institutionalised racial segregation that existed in South Africa and South West Africa (now Namibia) from 1948 to the early 1990s. Apartheid was characterised by an authoritarian political culture based on ''baasskap'' (boss-hood or boss-ship), which ensured that South Africa was dominated politically, socially, and economically by the nation's minority white population. According to this system of social stratification, white citizens had the highest status, followed by Indians and Coloureds, then black Africans. The economic legacy and social effects of apartheid continue to the present day. Broadly speaking, apartheid was delineated into ''petty apartheid'', which entailed the segregation of public facilities and social events, and ''grand apartheid'', which dictated housing and employment opportunities by race. The first apartheid law was the Prohibition of Mixed Marriages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
