Harmonies of hope: the Pretoria artists who changed the nation's tune
Discover the powerful stories of Pretoria's struggle artists - voices that emerged from the townships to define a nation's ...
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The land must return to blacks
South Africa’s land laws must redress apartheid’s legacy. More than 30 years into democracy, black ownership of farmland remains minimal.
Ghosts of apartheid haunt South Africa as compensation anger brews
A Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), which was co-chaired by the internationally renowned cleric Archbishop Desmond ...
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WATCH | Survivor remembers Langa massacre 40 years later
History repeated itself in Langa Township, in the Eastern Cape, when 35 people were mowed down by the apartheid police in 1985. 40 years later eNCA’s senior reporter Aviwe Mtila spoke to a ...
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Athol Fugard, 92, Playwright Who Exposed Torments of Apartheid, Dies
Even before apartheid was officially revoked in 1994 ... and others he met in Sophiatown, a Black township outside Johannesburg, but they attracted little attention, and the family decided ...
Apartheid, resistance, and political transition: lessons for Israel from South Africa
Despite mounting evidence that apartheid was unsustainable, genuine support for majority rule remained limited.
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South Africa's giant playwright Athol Fugard, whose searing works challenged apartheid, dies aged 92
Anti-apartheid activist Desmond Tutu was in the ... I suddenly encountered township life.” This ignited Fugard’s longstanding urge to write. He left the University of Cape Town just before ...
Athol Fugard, South African theater artist whose works confronted apartheid, dies at 92
Athol Fugard, South Africa’s foremost dramatist, who explored the pervasiveness of apartheid in such searing works as 'The ...