What’s the book’s premise? Apartheid was a state system of racial oppression in South Africa initiated when the National Party came to power in 1948. It lasted formally until 1994. While we know much ...

University of Texas Permian Basin Associate Professor of History Derek Catsam, has edited “Struggle for a Free South Africa: Campus Anti-Apartheid Movements in Africa and the United States, 1960–1994.

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Peter Magubane, a fearless photographer who captured the violence and horror of South Africa’s apartheid era of racial oppression, and was entrusted with documenting ...

During apartheid, from 1948 to 1994, music emerged as a beacon of hope and a weapon of resistance and protest within South Africa while local artists in exile during the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s also ...

JOHANNESBURG — South Africa will open a new inquest into the 1977 death in police custody of iconic anti-apartheid figure Steve Biko, state prosecutors said Wednesday. The inquest will be officially ...

Human Rights Day in South Africa commemorates the Sharpeville Massacre of 1960, where 69 peaceful protesters were killed by police while demonstrating against apartheid pass laws. This day serves as a ...

South Africa’s award-winning writer Breyten Breytenbach, an anti-apartheid activist who was jailed for his beliefs, died on Sunday in Paris at the age of 85. The poet, author and painter left his ...