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Fifty years ago the council was created to fight for marginalised communities to participate fairly in sports. Their dream remains unfulfilled.
Church Wedding in the Eastern Cape, 1920.
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Before colonialism black South Africans viewed sex and morality very differently than today.
Members of the Congress of South African Trade Unions sing political songs in 1987 in Johannesburg.
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Struggle songs are relevant even in the post apartheid context because they continue to be an important way in which people deliberate on issues.
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Royal women play important roles in succession disputes, such as the naming of King Goodwill Zwelithini kaBhekuzulu’s heir.
A woman at a protest in support of victims of the Marikana massacre outside the South African parliament.
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Individual beliefs about the past and its relevance to the present strongly influenced awareness of the Marikana tragedy.
The new home of the Mapungubwe Archive.
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The Mapungubwe site offers evidence of precolonial innovation and technology.
A memorial in Orlando West, Soweto, honouring the victims of the massacre of school children by apartheid police.
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The students who marched on 16 June 1976 did more than simply register a political opinion.
A multiracial crowd sings the South African National Anthem at 2019 memorial service for the late rugby Springbok Chester Williams.
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Avoiding trite moralisations, Professor Southall uses empirical research to shed light on white South Africans’ adjustment to democracy.
The African National Congress is steadily losing dominance.
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Any ruling party in South Africa has found it hard to maintain internal coherence and unity over an extended time span amid wide national diversity.
Detail from the cover of the book Magema Fuze: The Making of a Kholwa Intellectual.
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Magema Fuze’s book was a radical act of publishing. It contained histories of chiefdoms and kingdoms - from the Zulu to the Ngcobo.
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The books aim to write women back into history for children to see that women are able to take up powerful positions in society.
Judge Mandisa Maya, South Africa’s Chief Justice-elect.
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Her values of integrity, impartiality, professional ethics, and court decorum make her the ideal person to head the country’s judiciary.
Inkatha leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi, former South African President FW de Klerk and Nelson Mandela after signing a peace pledge ahead of the first democratic elections in 1994.
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This history covers twelve decades, from the surrender of Boer guerrillas in the Second Anglo-Boer War in 1902 to the July 2021 looting spree and violence.
Charlotte Mmakgoko Mannya- Maxeke has been immortalised in several works.
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Thanks to the public events and the scholarly engagement with her life and work, Charlotte Maxeke has become one of the most visible South African women from the 19th and 20th centuries.
Ron Eland, a South African Olympian who would go on to represent Great Britain in the 1948 Olympic Games.
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A new book explores physical culture in a social and historical context, focusing on colonial settings.
South African Communist Party members have held key positions in the ANC-led governments.
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The Communist Party draws most of the members from South Africa’s mainly young, unemployed people, a group that keeps growing.
DNA can solve all sorts of mysteries, including the sometimes thorny question of paternity.
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A lie about children’s paternity back in 1700 means tens of thousands of South Africans today are using the wrong surname.
Many black South Africans live in appalling conditions with no running water or electricity 27 years into democracy.
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The new governing elite mistakenly believes that the goal of a democratic South Africa is simply to extend to everyone what whites enjoyed under apartheid.
An Afrikaner family from the 1930s. Scientific analyses are unpacking Afrikaners’ genetic origins.
Jaco Greeff
Given the central role that ethnicity played and still plays in South African politics, it is good to have an unbiased estimate of Afrikaners’ genetic history.
Nelson Mandela at the commemoration of the 1960 Sharpeville massacre in 1994.
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The suggestion that Mandela single-handedly achieved democracy is as intellectually threadbare as the charge that he was centrally responsible for the failure to transform South Africa.