South Africa

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• 10/4/2020
  

  Will 2020 Place the US Alongside Apartheid South Africa in History's Hall of Shame?

  by Teresa Barnes

  The South African National Party won a parliamentary victory in 1948 and consolidated power quickly to institutionalize Apartheid and focus national politics on racial issues. This surprise turned into a half-century of hard right rule and stands as a warning to Americans today.

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• SOURCE: The Baffler
  8/4/2020
  

  The Hidden Faces of Apartheid (Review)

  A new book documents the way that the South African security forces targeted percevied opponents of apartheid for extrajudicial killing. 

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  5/8/2020
  

  Denis Goldberg, South African Freedom Fighter, Is Dead at 87

  He was the only white defendant to be convicted alongside Nelson Mandela and others in 1964 for resisting apartheid. He spent 22 years in prison.

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• 11/10/19
  

  The Boer War: The Opening Act in a Violent Century

  by David Carlin

  There is something darkly poetic in the timing of the Boer War. It offered a grim preview of warfare and the social conditions that would shake the world during the 20th century.

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• SOURCE: Origins
  Accessed 9/3/19
  

  South Africa: Twenty-Five Years Since Apartheid

  by Zeb Larson

  Twenty-five years ago, South Africa peacefully transitioned from a white-minority government to a black majority government, yet the legacy of apartheid still lingers today.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  June 25, 2019
  

  What South Africa Can Teach Us About Reparation

  by Ereshnee Naidu-Silverman

  Reparations can work, but only if we start telling the truth about racism and slavery.

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• 5/9/19
  

  Protesting with her Feet: The World’s Fastest Middle-Distance Woman versus Sports Governing Bodies

  by Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie

  A deeper look into athletics, gender, and Caster Semenya. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  1/27/19
  

  Quest to Solve Assassination Mystery Revives an AIDS Conspiracy Theory

  “We were at war,” said the former militia member, Alexander Jones. “Black people in South Africa were the enemy.”

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  6-1-18
  

  South Africa wants to make history compulsory at school

  But can it?

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• SOURCE: xinhuanet.com
  12-10-17
  

  Black South African scholars urged to correct white historians’ distortion

  South Africa's National Heritage Council (NHC) has called on the country's black historians to make an effort to correct the distortions of history in some books by white historians.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  4-9-17
  

  Humanity’s strange new cousin is shockingly young — and shaking up our family tree

  Homo naledi, a strange new species of human cousin found in South Africa two years ago, was unlike anything scientists had ever seen.

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• 8-30-15
  

  While We Weren't Paying Attention, South Africa Suddenly Has Become Pals with China and Russia

  by Heinrich Matthee

  A strange paranoia about the United States underlies the shift. 

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• SOURCE: Imperial & Global Forum
  7-6-15
  

  Charleston Shooting Exposes America’s Pro-Apartheid Cold War Past

  by R. Joseph Parrott

  To win friends during the Cold War Rhodesia and South Africa, playing up its anti-communism, courted the white south.

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• SOURCE: AP
  4-1-15
  

  Old Colonial Statues are in the Crosshairs in South Africa

  On March 9, a South African student protester tossed feces on a statue of British colonialist Cecil John Rhodes at the University of Cape Town, igniting nationwide calls to remove other statues of former white leaders.

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• 4-20-15
  

  How Diamonds Destroyed a People

  by Stan Winer

  The horrible human tragedy and deceit on which the fortune of Cecil Rhodes rests.

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• SOURCE: Counterpunch
  2-24-15
  

  Fidel Castro and Apartheid

  by Matt Peppe

  Cuba’s intervention in Angola managed to change the course of that country and reverberate throughout Africa.

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• SOURCE: Huffington Post
  12-5-14
  

  Zigzag Etched On Ancient Shell May Be World's Oldest Art

  The geometrical engraving is believed to date back 430,000 to 540,000 years.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  8-12-14
  

  South African Resigns From Parliament After Degree Is Questioned

  Mr. Jordan — a 72-year-old historian who used the title “Dr.” but lacked the Ph.D. from the London School of Economics that he had claimed on his résumé — issued an apology to the governing African National Congress and to the country.

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• SOURCE: Voice of America
  12-30-13
  

  New South African Beers Flavored with Boer History

  South Africa's microbrew boom is fueled by history.

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• SOURCE: Newsday
  12-13-13
  

  Nelson Mandela, A True Believer in Sanctions

  by Jonathan Zimmerman

  We're cynical about sanctions today, but we forget that they helped end apartheid.