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Articles sur Anti-apartheid activism
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If Mangosuthu Buthelezi had not opposed the apartheid state’s plans for an ‘independent’ Zulu kingdom, South Africa’s history would have unfolded very differently.
A true African poet, Don Mattera was at the centre of public life, an advocate for change and an enemy of elitism.
Jackson Mthembu’s death drives home the seriousness of the COVID-19 pandemic in the country.
South Africa’s history shows that mobilising white privilege can be a useful tool for advancing the struggle against racism.
Daniel Radcliffe stars in the unispired Escape from Pretoria, which is more procedural than character-driven.
A readable and important new book on the struggle for justice in South Africa’s Oukasie township does not go far enough to question the feasibility of grassroots resistance.
During the apartheid period in South Africa – 1948 to 1994 – a lively intellectual culture of opposition emerged on some of the country’s university campuses and within the broader anti-apartheid movement…
Bishop Huddleston’s criticism of Enoch Powell’s incendiary “Rivers of blood” speech was both a history lesson and a call to action against racism.
The lightning-quick corporate response to demands for a boycott against the NRA shows that companies can’t escape politics in an age saturated with social media.
Will the Timol case create the necessary political will to open dozens more inquests into apartheid deaths? Maybe, but government machinery has proven to be rusty and extremely slow.
Two South African “romance” struggle auto/biographies have focalised the anti-apartheid struggle through the lives of heroic women who were bound by love.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu is first and foremost, a spiritual leader, a man of deep prayer. This motivated his participation in supporting South Africa’s liberation struggle.
“Shaming campaigns” have been successful in attracting attention to transnational issues like inhumane working conditions and environmental degradation. But shaming guilty corporations is only the first step.
Afrikaans is very much a black language. The apartheid government’s ploy to construct it as a “white language”, with a “white history”, denied the commonality of the language across race and class.
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Lecturer in Communications and Media, University of Notre Dame Australia
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Political Scientist, University of the Western Cape
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Distinguished Reserach Professor, Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University of the Witwatersrand
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Emeritus Professor of Christian Studies, University of Cape Town
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Professor of Afrikaans, University of Pretoria
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Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford and Professor of Management and Sociology, University of Michigan
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Professor of Political Studies, University of Johannesburg
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Professor of Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Senior Lecturer in History, University of Dundee
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Senior Lecturer in English, University of the Western Cape
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Postdoctoral fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in the ERC funded project APARTHEID-STOPS that studies the transnational circulation of anti-apartheid expressive culture., Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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Senior Lecturer in International Politics, City, University of London
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Emeritus Professor of Political Sociology, University of KwaZulu-Natal
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Poet and lecturer in Creative Writing, University of the Witwatersrand
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Senior Lecturer, Edge Hill University
