Ordinary Whites in Apartheid South Africa is a new book that explores how apartheid monitored and shaped white life, and how all classes of white people were complicit.
Peter Randall (1935-2024).
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The composer, bassist and innovator Gerald ‘Mac’ McKenzie died on 29 April. He changed Cape Town’s unique music traditions forever.
The Hector Pieterson Memorial in Soweto honours school children who were murdered by apartheid police in June 1976.
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There has been a long history of resistance to white hegemony in the United States and South Africa.
The 1976 games were boycotted by African states because of New Zealand allowing a rugby tour of apartheid South Africa.
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African states won new power when they demanded New Zealand withdraw because of their rugby tour of apartheid South Africa.
ANC leader and South African president, Cyril Ramaphosa, attends an election rally at the FNB Stadium in Johannesburg, South Africa, May 2024.
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Unions speaking out on issues as contentious as Israel-Palestine is nothing new. They have a long history of staking international positions on everything from apartheid to the Vietnam War.
The new MK Party’s slogan #Mayibuye and its green, gold and black colours share the ruling ANC’s own branding.
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Former president Jacob Zuma’s MK Party borrows the slogan “mayibuye” from the liberation party to make a point about the ruling African National Congress.
African National Congress supporters in Durban days before the historic poll on 27 April 1994.
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The electoral commission had only four months for work which normally takes two to three years. In the end, the election succeeded because the nation wanted it to succeed.
During the apartheid era, Transkei was one of several government-designated ‘homelands.’
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Klara Fischer, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
The South African government has failed to reverse the decline in smallholder farming that began during apartheid. A different approach is needed to support smallholder livelihoods.
A statue of Nelson Mandela in an upmarket shopping square.
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Commerce, culture and heritage mix in rather strange and sometimes unsettling ways in South Africa, especially when the struggle for freedom is commemorated.
Esther Mahlangu at the retrospective of her work at the Iziko South African National Gallery in Cape Town.
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The first episode of What happened to Nelson Mandela’s South Africa?, a three-part podcast series on The Conversation Weekly. Featuring interviews with Steven Friedman and Sandy Africa.
Nelson Mandela takes the oath as South Africa’s president in Pretoria on 10 May 1994.
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A lot of good has happened since apartheid ended in 1994. Sadly, 30 years on, the country is in a political and economic crisis. Many are questioning the choices of the past three decades.
RCMP pallbearers carry the casket funeral of former prime minister Brian Mulroney at the Notre-Dame Basilica in Montreal.
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Brian Mulroney has been laid to rest. In the fullness of time it will probably become evident that few prime ministers in Canadian history accomplished as much as he did.
South African pianist Abdullah Ibrahim in 2014.
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Eddie Webster inspired generations of scholars with his vision and practice of critically engaged scholarship, in South Africa and worldwide.
Nelson Mandela greets people as he walks with Prime Minister Brian Mulroney on his arrival in Ottawa, June 17, 1990, for a three-day visit to Canada.
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