Celebrated South African photographer David Goldblatt took up photography in 1948, the same year the all-white National Party came into power and apartheid began in his country. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Though Goldblatt, pictured above, was just 18 at the time, documenting the impact of apartheid — the government-implemented system of racial segregation in South Africa — […]
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When South Africans Declared ‘Liberation’ at Two Whites-Only Beaches | Los Angeles Sentinel
Global Information Network, Los Angeles Sentinel [dropcap]C[/dropcap]South Africa witnessed the beginning of the end of Whites-only beaches thirty years ago this week after an action launched by the Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] It was part of an escalating campaign to defy apartheid. Throngs of demonstrators were chased down Cape Town streets by police […]
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‘First time in history’: 50 percent women in South Africa cabinet | Al Jazeera
President Cyril Ramaphosa’s new cabinet comprises 50 percent women, a first for Africa’s second-biggest economy.
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The Man Who Stole South Africa | Foreign Policy
Cyril Ramaphosa has pledged a new dawn as president, but the secretary-general of his own party has built a web of corruption that thrives on darkness.
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Why white South Africans are turning to the ANC while black voters desert Mandela’s party | The Telegraph
Adrian Blomfield, The Telegraph Photo: Ramaphosa, with Mandela looking on (in mural form). Photo: Rajesh Jantilal/AFP, Featured Image [dropcap]It[/dropcap] may be the Rainbow Nation, but the political history of South Africa has long been writ in black and white. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Quarter of a century after the end of apartheid, however, there is a twist […]
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56,800 migrant dead and missing: ‘They are human beings’ | Associated Press
An Associated Press tally has documented at least 56,800 migrants dead or missing worldwide since 2014 — almost double the number found in the world’s only official attempt to try to count them, by the U.N.’s International Organization for Migration.
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Breaking ‘the curse’ of disabled children in South Africa – Al Jazeera
The government estimates as many as 600,000 children with disabilities are not getting an education.
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The Beauty and Complexity of the Black Experience Explored in Johannesburg – Okay Africa
This world has blackness somewhere in the space between racial classification and liberation.
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6 Books That Shaped Post-Apartheid South Africa
South Africa | OFFICIALLY, REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded on the south by 2,798 kilometres of coastline of Southern Africa stretching along the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans, on the north by the neighbouring countries of Namibia, Botswana […]
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South Africa Passes Land Expropriations Bill
Some groups critical of bill allowing compulsory purchase in public interest that ruling ANC says will tackle injustice.
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