Former residents recall a community nurtured by a spirit of extended family and solidarity.
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When South Africa’s Gumbi community got their land back 45 years after the apartheid government took it, they set up a successful community-run game reserve.
Grassroots protests can change people’s lives for the better.
Anna “Kakurukaze” Mungunda became the most widely acknowledged face of the resistance to the apartheid policy of forced removal.
Hollywood undermines Africa’s struggles, creating a false impression of the continent to please western viewers.
Indigenous people in the US have high rates of food insecurity and dietary-related health problems. Any attempts to address the problem must start with land justice, argues a scholar of Native health and food.
After World War II ended in Europe, millions of ethnic Germans faced an uncertain future. The political repercussions of their expulsion continue even today.
A readable and important new book on the struggle for justice in South Africa’s Oukasie township does not go far enough to question the feasibility of grassroots resistance.
Built by Tamil immigrants almost 100 years ago, the temple has survived apartheid and urban decay to remain at the heart of its community.
Even though they were a product of apartheid’s propaganda broadcasting machine, Zulu language radio dramas proved subversively powerful by reflecting communal black life and creating new stars.
Given the framework within which removals under the Group Areas Act took place in Cape Town, a social disaster was inevitable.
One of the state’s most significant powers is the ability to remove children from their families. Potential reforms in NSW could expand this already racialised power in frightening ways.
Philip Tabane was unlike any other musician. His music was intimately woven into his cosmology and spirituality.
South Africans supporting visiting New Zealand rugby teams took root in a tumultuous time as an expression of defiance against apartheid.
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Extraordinary Professor, Department of Political Sciences, University of Pretoria
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