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Residents still maintain Sharpeville Massacre death toll higher than official records
George Molibedi was only 12 when apartheid security forces fired on a crowd of people protesting against unjust laws forcing ...
Sharpeville Massacre: residents still claim higher death toll than official records
Sixty-five years after the Sharpeville Massacre, residents share compelling evidence of uncounted victims while UNESCO's ...
AllAfrica.com11d
South Africa: What Is Apartheid? New Book for Young Readers Explains South Africa's Racist System
A new book, Together Apart: The Story of Living in Apartheid, has just been published in South Africa. Intended for young ...
The Jerusalem Post Blogs19d
What are the beliefs of Mahmoud Khalil’s activist group CUAD? - analysis
(photo credit: REUTERS/CAITLIN OCHS) With the Saturday arrest of Columbia University Apartheid Divest senior activist Mahmoud Khalil, the organization that has been involved in a series of ...
Los Angeles Times20d
Appreciation: Playwright Athol Fugard proved the pen could be mightier than the sword
Born in Middelburg, South Africa, in 1932 to an immigrant English father of Irish descent and a mother from an Afrikaner family, Fugard lived through the rise and fall of apartheid. His career ...
PBS20d
Athol Fugard, Tony Award-winning South African playwright whose searing works challenged apartheid, dies aged 92
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Athol Fugard, South Africa’s foremost dramatist who explored the pervasiveness of apartheid in such searing works as “The Blood Knot” and “’Master Harold ...
Los Angeles Times21d
Athol Fugard, South African theater artist whose works confronted apartheid, dies at 92
CAPE TOWN, South Africa — Athol Fugard, South Africa’s foremost dramatist, who explored the pervasiveness of apartheid in such searing works as “The Blood Knot” and “’Master Harold ...
Associated Press21d
South Africa’s giant playwright Athol Fugard, whose searing works challenged apartheid, dies aged 92
(AP Photo/Mario Cabrera, File) Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Athol Fugard, South Africa’s foremost dramatist who explored the ...
NPR21d
Playwright Athol Fugard, who chronicled apartheid and its aftermath, dies at 92
When apartheid ended, and Nelson Mandela was elected president of South Africa, Athol Fugard thought his life as a playwright was over, he told NPR in 2015. "I sincerely believe that I was going ...
BBC21d
Athol Fugard: Death of a great South African playwright
The son of an Afrikaner mother, he was best known for his politically charged plays challenging the racist system of apartheid. Paying tribute to Fugard, South Africa's Arts and Culture Minister ...
News2421d
Remembering Fugard: 'His pen was an arsenal that the apartheid state could not control'
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capetownetc.com21d
Legendary anti-apartheid playwright Athol Fugard dies at 92
Internationally acclaimed novelist, actor, director, playwright and legendary anti-apartheid figurehead Athol Fugard passed away on Saturday, 8 March 2025, at the age of 92, reports Cape {town} Etc.