Search Results for "Apartheid"
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Anti-Apartheid writer and activist Breyten Breytenbach dies at 85
Breyten Breytenbach, the acclaimed South African poet, novelist, and anti-apartheid activist, has died at the age of 85, his family has confirmed. He passed away peacefully in his sleep in Paris, with...
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Anti-apartheid veteran and corruption fighter Pravin Gordhan dies at 75
Pravin Gordhan, the former South African finance minister renowned for his reform of the country’s tax system and staunch fight against corruption, died Friday at age 75 after a brief battle with...
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Trump’s spiritual advisor claims she helped Mandela abolish apartheid, Mandela’s foundation reacts
The senior pastor at Florida’s City of Destiny Church and former President Donald Trump’s spiritual advisor, Paula White-Cain, on May 4 claimed she helped Nelson Mandela abolish apartheid in...
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How food apartheid campaigner Karen Washington is raising millions to support black farmers
Though switching careers from therapy to agriculture was quite odd, Karen Washington’s decision to chart this path was driven by her passion to protect the lands in her neighborhood in Washington....
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How a Black South African turned a small loan from a friend during apartheid into a multimillion-dollar empire
Herman Mashaba is a South African entrepreneur and politician. He founded the Black Like Me skincare company during the height of apartheid when it was nearly impossible for Blacks to operate a business....
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Why the 30-year-old murder of South African leader Chris Hani is reopening Apartheid-era wounds and challenging the nation’s rule of law
The political atmosphere in South Africa remains tense following the ruling of the Constitutional Court – the country’s highest court, to release on parole, Janusz Walus, the far-right Polish-born...
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How South Africa’s golden rhinoceros exposed untruths in apartheid campaigns against inhabitants
In 1934, a team of archaeologists discovered the golden rhinoceros in a royal grave at the site of Mapungubwe in the northern part of South Africa close to the border of Zimbabwe. The golden rhinoceros...
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On this day in 1976, this Black child became the iconic image of the Soweto Uprising that helped end apartheid
On June 16 each year, Youth Day is celebrated nationally in South Africa to commemorate the Soweto Uprising, or the “16 June” events, which took place on this day in 1976. Thousands of Sowetan...
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Anti-apartheid activist Dulcie September was assassinated in Paris 34 yrs ago. Her case is still unsolved
On March 29, 1988, at the age of 52, anti-apartheid activist Dulcie September was assassinated in central Paris. Working as the representative of Nelson Mandela’s African National Congress in France,...
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‘It was the language of apartheid’ – Why people are protesting Ryanair’s Afrikaans quiz for SA passengers
Irish budget airline Ryanair has doubled down on its decision to make South Africans traveling to the UK take a test in Afrikaans to prove they are not from a different country. The airline’s policy...
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How white leaders in South Africa carved out ‘free’ Black states to avoid ending apartheid
Apartheid existed before the 1948 election that ushered in South Africa’s white supremacist National Party which oversaw the overarching legislation that set the ethnicities of the territory apart....
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Meet Mozambique’s independence leader Samora Machel who took the war to apartheid South Africa
The story is quite popular that Samora Machel was forced into political activism by the fact that while a hospital aide at Miguel Bombarda Hospital in Mozambique, he joined others to protest the wage discrimination...
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Do you know the major multinational companies who allegedly profited off apartheid?
As was well-argued by Naomi Klein in her bestseller The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, capital has never failed to profit off disasters, natural or orchestrated. Klein explained that...
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Andrew Mlangeni, icon of anti-apartheid struggle and Rivonia trialist dies at 95
The last surviving anti-apartheid defendant at the famous Rivonia trials in South Africa, Andrew Mlangeni, has died at the age of 95 in a Pretoria hospital, the government has said. Mlangeni had been admitted...
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Read Nelson Mandela’s fiery 1997 speech on apartheid that shocked the world
South Africa’s first Black president and anti-apartheid activist, Nelson Mandela, was born on this day in 1918. Nelson Mandela Day celebrates the life and values of a global icon, a man who spent...
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The bravery of Anton Fransch who singlehandedly fought apartheid police in 7-hour gun battle
Anton Fransch was in high school when he decided to become a freedom fighter in the 1980s during the height of the fight against apartheid in South Africa. The anti-apartheid struggle forms a significant...
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Is the last white president of South Africa still defending apartheid?
Controversial South African politician, Julius Malema and parliamentary members of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), last week tried to remove former President F.W. de Klerk from the country’s...
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The unsolved murder of South Africa’s pioneering investigative journalist under apartheid
Henry Nxumalo, in the early post-war years, believed that Africa was about to witness great things and that a free and responsible press would facilitate that change. As such, the man, who would be described...
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From a freedom fighter to the most feared man under apartheid, meet Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe
When the South African apartheid regime prolonged his sentencing in 1963 for inciting Africans to demand the repeal of the Pass Laws, Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe was imprisoned on Robben Island. But while...
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25 years after apartheid, black South Africans are today earning three times less than their white counterparts
It has been 25 years since South Africa’s first all-race democratic elections, held on April 27, 1994. The exercise produced a coalition government with a black majority led by anti-apartheid...
