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8 hours ago · Women’s anti-apartheid resistance movements . During the 1910s, the Union of South Africa introduced pass and native laws, which sparked several resistance campaigns across the country. These pass laws were a key component of the apartheid regime’s oppressive policies. Women’s anti-pass protest campaigns gained momentum in the 1950s.
5 days ago · South Africa - Resistance, Activism, Liberation: Apartheid imposed heavy burdens on most South Africans. The economic gap between the wealthy few, nearly all of whom were white, and the poor masses, virtually all of whom were Black, Coloured, or Indian, was larger than in any other country in the world. While whites generally lived well, Indians, Coloureds, and especially Blacks suffered from widespread poverty, malnutrition, and disease. Most South Africans struggled daily for survival ...
5 days ago · The South African government bodies tasked with investigating and prosecuting apartheid-era political crimes must face closer public scrutiny and take stronger action to fast-track long-overdue justice for victims’ families and survivors, writes Katarzyna Zdunczyk.
4 days ago · Johannesburg - Apartheid, Mining, History: These transformations were not lost on white political leaders. On the contrary, the future of Johannesburg and other South African cities became the central issue in the 1948 national election. Jan Smuts’ United Party, while defending its commitment to white supremacy, argued that complete segregation was chimerical and that some permanent Black urbanization was an inevitable consequence of economic development. The National Party of Daniel F ...
4 days ago · The repatriation of the freedom fighters’ remains from Zambia and Zimbabwe forms part of the Resistance and Liberation Heritage Route Project (RLHR). The RLHR is a national memory project aimed at commemorating, celebrating, educating, promoting, preserving, conserving and providing a durable testament of South African’s road to freedom.
3 days ago · Growing up in an impoverished Black township near Johannesburg in the 1980s, the boy, Vusi Mdoyi, loved watching his father dance with friends, in a style known as pantsula, in the dirt yards of ...
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3 days ago · The Johannesburg suburb was a cultural hub in which people from all over the city visited to see future stars like ... to ensure minimal resistance. She was just 10 years old at the time ...
