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Apartheid

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Africa

Who were the first Africans at the Olympics? The disturbing story of two 1904 marathon runners

1904 Olympic marathon participants Len Tau (left) and Jan Mashiani of South Africa. Missouri History Museum     By Francois Cleophas, Stellenbosch University     Who were the first Africans to compete in the modern Olympic Games? The answer to that question reveals the surprising story of a 1904 marathon – and exposes the history of racism and white supremacy that characterised the Olympics in its early days. The first modern […]

today22 July, 2024

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Brenda Fassie’s 1997 hit song Vulindlela still raises questions about South Africa as a nation

          By Mbali Mazibuko, University of Johannesburg   In 1997, South Africa’s most famous music star had a huge hit. Brenda Fassie’s Vulindlela became a national pop anthem, played especially at weddings and celebrations. Vulindlela can be loosely translated from the Zulu language as an instruction to “make way” or, if you like, “clear the path”. The song is about making way for the groom (and […]

today12 July, 2024

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South Africa

Ordinary white South Africans and apartheid – bound to a racist system they helped prop up

    By Neil Roos, University of Fort Hare     In South Africa, apartheid was a divisive political system entrenched by a white minority who regarded other ethnic groups as inferior, creating townships on the outskirts of cities to house the black population and legislation to control their movements. Many academic studies have focused on black life under apartheid, but few on white life – and even fewer on […]

today10 July, 2024

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South Africa

Students on the frontline: South Africa and the US share a history of protest against white supremacy

    By Rico Devara Chapman, Jackson State University     Every year on 16 June, South Africa commemorates the revolt of black school children against the inferior “bantu education” system on that day in 1976. The horror of police shooting and killing unarmed children caused a global uproar. Historian Rico Devara Chapman’s research interests include a focus on the African diaspora’s historical and contemporary struggles for justice, particularly student […]

today17 June, 2024

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Africa

June 16 uprising: how a massacre in South Africa led to Africa’s boycott of the 1976 Olympics

          By Nicolas Bancel, Université de Lausanne     As the world prepares for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, can we maintain faith in the nonpolitical ethos of the event? The Montreal Olympics Games in 1976 stands out, among others, as a clear instance of the games being used for political ends. In 1976 Montreal became only the second French-speaking city to host the event since […]

today14 June, 2024

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South Africa

Mayibuye! The 100-year-old slogan that’s stirred up divisions in South Africa’s elections

        By Corinne Sandwith, University of Pretoria     Political parties the world over use slogans, icons, colours, names and flags to establish their political and historical credentials. What happens when two political parties lay claim to the same history and the same symbolic capital? In South Africa, a conflict of this kind is being played out between the governing African National Congress (ANC) party led by […]

today28 May, 2024

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South Africa

Drained but proud: how it felt to organise South Africa’s first democratic election in just 4 months

      By Kealeboga J Maphunye, University of South Africa     South Africa’s historic 27 April 1994 national election marked the end of more than three centuries of colonial and apartheid rule. The period leading to the election was one of heightened political tension, with opponents of change working hard to derail the process through deadly violence. Political scientist Kealeboga Maphunye asks Mandla Mchunu, first deputy secretary of […]

today22 May, 2024

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South Africa

South Africa’s media have done good work with 30 years of freedom but need more diversity

    By Prinola Govenden, University of Johannesburg   In 1992, two years before the end of apartheid, Nelson Mandela bemoaned the state of South Africa’s print media. He said the media’s domination by middle class males from the minority white population posed the biggest threat to freedom of expression in the country. The same year, the African National Congress under his leadership adopted a media charter calling for all […]

today2 May, 2024

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South Africa

How the Mandela myth helped win the battle for democracy in South Africa

  By Jonny Steinberg, Yale University   Political history scholar Jonny Steinberg’s 2023 book Winnie & Nelson: Portrait of a Marriage is a double biography of South Africa’s most famous political figures – Nelson Mandela and Winnie Madikizela Mandela – and their role in the country’s struggle for democracy. It’s also a book that shatters countless myths about the couple and the liberation struggle that have been formed in popular […]

today29 April, 2024