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David Goldblatt captures intimate portraits of Johannesburg during apartheid

Between 1948 and 2016, David Goldblatt returned periodically to Fietas, a suburb in the west of Johannesburg’s city centre, ...

Saving South Africa’s forgotten story of sport that defied apartheid

Black, Indian and mixed-race South Africans built their own sporting world during apartheid, defying segregation with parallel clubs and competitions. Archivists in Johannesburg are now working to ...
Yahoo

South Africa opens a new inquiry into apartheid-era killings known as Cradock Four

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — When Nombuyiselo Mhlauli was given her husband's body back for burial, he had more than 25 stab wounds in his chest and seven in his back, with a gash across his throat. His right ...

South Africans feel mixture of hope and despair as apartheid becomes a distant memory

This is all taking place against a backdrop of rampant corruption, which was exposed by the South African government’s own ...
Seattle Times

South Africa’s giant playwright Athol Fugard, whose searing works challenged apartheid, dies aged 92

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Athol Fugard, South Africa’s foremost dramatist who explored the pervasiveness of apartheid in such searing works as “The Blood Knot” and “’Master Harold’… and the Boys” ...
Foreign Affairs

The Costs of South Africa’s Ideological Foreign Policy

MICHELLE GAVIN is the Ralph Bunche Senior Fellow for Africa Policy Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. She was Senior Africa Director at the National Security Council from 2009 to 2011 and U.
Times of San Diego

Athol Fugard, South African Playwright, Apartheid Challenger, Former UCSD Professor, Dead at 92

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