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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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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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.
Members of the Ossewabrandwag on parade during WWII. The then political opposition collaborated with the Germans.
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Following the war, the South African authorities were anxious to charge known war criminals, traitors and collaborators. But nothing came of it.
A demonstration in Red Square (since renamed Freedom Square) in the Johannesburg suburb of Fordsburg, South Africa, 6th April 1952.
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When the Truth and Reconciliation was mandated to investigate human rights violations from March 1960, that left twelve years of apartheid rule unexplored.
The graves of the victims of the Sharpeville massacre tell a grim story.
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The low levels of familiarity with key historical events indicate that there are serious shortcomings in the development of national collective memory in South Africa.
The rights entrenched in South Africa’s progressive constitution work for some, but not those living in abject poverty.
Acting Strategic Lead: Developmental, Capable and Ethical State (DCES) research division, and Coordinator of the South African Social Attitudes Survey (SASAS), Human Sciences Research Council