The song was written hot, as the news of the massacre reached the world. Its creators spanned the continent.
Articles on 1976 Soweto uprising
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His life in music was a struggle against narrow definitions - of ‘race’, instrumental appropriateness and musical genre.
A seven-year diplomatic dispute over the land earmarked for the ski resort ensured it was never built.
These vibrant writers embrace the open road and claim spaces that were denied them during apartheid.
No South African photographer leaves a more substantial legacy than Santu Mofokeng. He was adept at mapping interior worlds through haunting images of black life and, above all, his landscapes.
Raymond Louw will be remembered as a man of unbending principle.
The sympathetic take on Pik Botha as a man of peace and a frustrated democrat is a travesty.
The persistence of Sam Nzima’s June 16 photograph is remarkable. The shadow in the photograph can be read as a metaphor for the rich debate that this image continues to bring to the surface.
The end of apartheid should have heralded a new South Africa for the generation born at its demise. But that hasn’t happened.
It’s time South Africa stopped stereotyping its young people as being disinterested and morally bankrupt and started engaging them.
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Associate of the Gordon Institute for Business Science, University of Pretoria
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SARChI Research Chair in Geopolitics and the Arts of Africa, Rhodes University
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Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, University of Leicester
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DSTI/NRF Research Chair in Welfare and Social Development, University of Johannesburg
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Caxton Professor of Journalism, University of the Witwatersrand
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Senior Researcher: Poverty and Inequality Initiative, Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, University of Cape Town
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DSI/NRF SARChI Chair in Visual History & Theory, University of the Western Cape
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Associate Professor of African History, Michigan State University
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Professor of History, University of Limpopo
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Research Associate, Humanities Research Centre (and African Literature Department, University of the Witwatersrand), University of York