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Revision as of 22:07, 10 May 2009
During the 1980s, students held numerous protests against South Africa's discriminatory policy of apartheid. Their aim was to get the university to divest from South Africa, helping to place economic pressure on the government there to end the policy. The protests culminated in a takeover of Hamilton Hall in April, 1985. Although the university agreed to divest in the aftermath, it did not do so until 1991, when talks to end the apartheid regime were already well underway.
