Despite mounting evidence that apartheid was unsustainable, genuine support for majority rule remained limited.

A large number of laws were passed to establish the apartheid structure of government. The three most important blocks of legislation were: The Race Classification Act. Every citizen suspected of ...

The life of Athol Fugard, a renowned South African playwright whose works transcended theatre to challenge apartheid and ...

Emily Bridger, of Exeter's Department of Archaeology and History. "We know from past research that these issues are not new to the post-apartheid era but have deep roots stretching into the ...

political and educational institutions in relation to the apartheid regime. A fundamental fact underlies this provocative study: the Jews of South Africa shared in the status of the privileged in a ...

This book would have stipulated where a Black South African was allowed to work, and travel during the Apartheid era in South Africa. It controlled and restricted movement and freedom.

Apartheid existed for decades and then came crashing down rapidly. We didn’t know that its heirs would be wreaking havoc on this country four decades later, but history isn’t an unbroken line ...

The grade 9 history teacher, for example, taught that “the apartheid government gave us labels”, and that “if we didn’t cooperate (by uniting under a Black identity) then South Africa ...

But history comes with it. Aside from the Nazi and apartheid legacy of Fischer-Tropsch, Sasol has had problems with worker deaths in the past. I've never seen how coal-to-liquid is all that great ...

Carl Niehaus’ outrage over old military insignia reveals a deeper issue—South Africa is losing its collective memory, and few are stepping up to save it.

For a thorough understanding of South Africa's appalling apartheid era, a visit to Johannesburg's Apartheid Museum is a must. The museum features a series of graphic yet informative exhibits ...