Art and Apartheid

Towards a people’s culture - Art and Resistance under Apartheid

Towards a people’s culture - Art and Resistance under Apartheid

Art in the state of siegeThe Sharpeville Massacre was one of the most important turning points in the history of South A...

History of Photography in South Africa

History of Photography in South Africa

A survey of the history of photography in South Africa reveals, broadly, three important eras, colonisation, repression ...

Apartheid Legislation 1850's-1970's

Apartheid Legislation 1850's-1970's

1856-1910 Masters and Servants Acts of 1856 These Acts, which had been passed between 1856 and 1904 in the fo...

Timeline of State Action Against the Press in the 1960s

Timeline of State Action Against the Press in the 1960s

1960 Mar- Norman Phillips of the Toronto Star was detained 3 and '/2 days for trying to cable a story about a police ...

Culture and Resistance Conference, Botswana, 1982

Culture and Resistance Conference, Botswana, 1982

Several hundred artists and activists from South Africa living in exile and within the country, as well as foreign natio...

South Africa’s Academic and Cultural Boycott

South Africa’s Academic and Cultural Boycott

2 September 2021

Introduction In 1948 with the election of the National Party and the enforcement of an Apartheid State, it took time ...