His life in music was a struggle against narrow definitions - of ‘race’, instrumental appropriateness and musical genre.
Articles on Anti-apartheid struggle
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His image is the watermark in South African passports, but he is not as widely known as leaders like Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu.
A new book revisits her life, work and ideas and shows how relevant they still are today.
Exiled for much of his career, he was acknowledged universally as a pioneer and a leading light of the international free jazz scene.
Ernest Cole: Lost and Found by Raoul Peck is a meditative film that draws on Cole’s own notebooks and letters in a bold attempt to have him tell his own story.
The celebrated South African writer and poet Breyten Breytenbach has died at 85. He used his art to fight for justice for marginalised people throughout his life.
Pravin Gordhan was throughout his life driven by a deep commitment to non-racialism.
Onyeka Onwenu, Nigerian musician, political activist and documentary maker, died on 30 July 2024.
The interviews in this book offer firsthand insights into women’s participation in the armed struggle against apartheid.
A 26-member theatre ensemble aims to bring history to light in a fresh way.
If Mangosuthu Buthelezi had not opposed the apartheid state’s plans for an ‘independent’ Zulu kingdom, South Africa’s history would have unfolded very differently.
A new book delves into the issues faced by a 1971 international tennis tour, and calls for injustice to be recognised.
The activist and writer has been erased from South Africa’s history - but new academic work seeks to restore his voice.
Weiss witnessed atrocities in Germany and South Africa and railed against them, becoming a towering figure as a writer and poet.
Fifty years ago the council was created to fight for marginalised communities to participate fairly in sports. Their dream remains unfulfilled.
Struggle songs are relevant even in the post apartheid context because they continue to be an important way in which people deliberate on issues.
The students who marched on 16 June 1976 did more than simply register a political opinion.
The relationship between South Africa and the West, especially the US, has a complex history. Not least because the US designated those fighting the apartheid regime, as terrorists.
The greatness of an institution lies in acknowledging both the light and the shade in its ongoing journey as a great South African university.
For her, art was a weapon in the struggle and a tool for education. She used every opportunity to build movements and to archive experiences in writing.
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