These were the solo pieces, so to speak, but always there was the accompaniment of burned settlements, derailed trains, and ambushed wagons, and punitive expeditions, dispossessions, and tribal evictions. ❋ Estelle Bruno (2010)
HASS: To disconnect -- just I want to finish -- just to show that there is no link of dispossessions between '48 and now, that we are not a colonialist state. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Certainly, they revealed one of the tragic possible outcomes when women's "old ways" of binding memory through relations of remembrance collide with the dispossessions and inequalities of the new global capitalist order at their door. ❋ Unknown (2005)
Scholars working with oral literature in South Africa have similarly argued that forced dispossessions of various kinds have caused a generaland genderedweakening of memory in agrarian communities. ❋ Unknown (2005)
Although many black people had already lost their land in the wars of dispossessions by the time the Union was formed in 1910, the insatiable avarice of the resident colonialists saw them seeking new ways of grabbing more and more land that was still in the hands of black people. ❋ Unknown (2003)
The Department of Land Affairs has declared this month as 'Land Month', which is dedicated to the achievements that we have made so far, in reversing racial land dispossessions and the measures that we have taken to ameliorate the pain, grief, trauma and despair occasioned by years of forced removals. ❋ Unknown (2003)
The inhuman system of colonial land dispossessions coupled with the sexist and racist migrant labour policies, had a profound impact on African family life and gender relations. ❋ Unknown (2003)
The restitution programme aims to redress apartheid-colonial injustices of land dispossessions, which affected more than 3,5 million people from ❋ Unknown (2002)
The dispossessions in Paarl were mainly carried out in terms of the Group Areas Act (No 77 of 1957) and various proclamations in terms of the Act, dating from 1961 to 1981. ❋ Unknown (2001)
Calling for land reform to be seen in the context of South Africa's apartheid land dispossessions and the government's fiscal constraints, the NLC said land acquisition was being hampered by farmers 'reluctance to sell and the frequently inflated prices willing sellers were charging. ❋ Unknown (2000)
But then they put me on the concrete rollers, and one morning, when I felt that I was at the end of my rope, I witnessed the delivery of a batch of women and children from the dispossessions at Zamosc. ❋ Michener, James (1983)
And how in keeping it is with the character of this acquisition and with its purpose and mission that our celebration should not waste itself on the pomp and pageantry that belongs to the triumphs and spoils of war, or to the rapacious dispossessions of ruthless conquest. ❋ Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission (N/A)
And if he do not this, I declare by all the declarations of the protest sent to him through Pero Bernaldez, notary-public of this fleet, on the twenty-first of October, in the year one thousand five hundred and sixty-eight, that all the losses, deaths, dispossessions of property, and damages consequent shall fall upon his grace, while I shall remain free and absolved therefrom. ❋ James Alexander Robertson (1906)
We're going to generate a fair amount of proceeds out of the Catellus sale and the land dispossessions, and that is sufficient to fund our development activity this year in a debt neutral manner.
Two of Romeu's first-half dispossessions, nicking the ball off Jonas and Sofiane Feghouli, were acts of pure pickpocketing that Fagin would have admired. ❋ Henry Winter (2011)
