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The photographer spent years shooting Johannesburg’s Soweto township, photographing everyday people living through Apartheid as a way of responding to his own “fragmented” thoughts and feelings about ...
She started her career during the apartheid era of the 1980s and became the first white woman to perform to an all-black audience in the Soweto township. PJ became a prominent anti-apartheid ...
During apartheid, from 1948 to 1994 ... Yet, music continued to thrive in the townships, with songs such as "In Soweto" celebrating community resilience and jazz anthems like Winston's "Mankunku ...
Just 60 years ago, in the summer of 1954, South Africa’s prime minister and architect of apartheid Daniel Francois Malan and ... South West Township but it would itself become a legend as Soweto. At ...
Constructed in 1945 in the Orlando West section of Soweto, Johannesburg ... However, due to Mandela's prominence in the anti-apartheid movement, he was forced to leave his family to try to ...
How an Australian DJ teamed up with the award-winning Soweto Gospel Choir for a project that celebrates the power of house ...
An old anti-apartheid song that was a call for Black people to stand up against oppression and has now been decried by Elon ...
In the 1980s, Irvin, a 12-year-old child in Soweto, in apartheid South ... a ubiquitous sight in the nation’s townships during the final decades of apartheid. The apartheid state deployed ...
There are several sites that serve as stark reminders of South Africa’s history and why we celebrate Human Rights Day – take a ...