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On Apr. 24, 1986, anti-apartheid protesters gathered on campus to urge the UC Board of Regents to divest from South Africa. Above, police face a crowd of students, one of whom is holding a sign with Mandela’s face on it.

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Eitan Arom: South African struggle inspired Bruins to fight for justice

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At the time Kathleen Sheldon started graduate school at UCLA in 1975, it seemed Nelson Mandela would never get out of prison. As Sheldon and a group of campus activists sought to make the South African government an international pariah, Mandela toiled away in an island prison – a visionary moral leader reduced to breaking rocks in a labor camp.

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Eitan Arom: South African struggle inspired Bruins to fight for justice

By Eitan Arom

Dec. 8, 2013 11:50 p.m.