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Have You Heard from Johannesburg is a 2010 series of seven documentary films, covering the 45-year struggle of the global anti-apartheid movement against South Africa's apartheid system and its international supporters who considered them an ally in the Cold War. The combined films have an epic scope, spanning most of the globe over half a century.
The 1957 Alexandra bus boycott was a protest undertaken against the Public Utility Transport Corporation by the people of Alexandra in Johannesburg, South Africa. It is generally recognised as being one of the few successful political campaigns of the Apartheid era, by writers and activists such as Anthony Sampson and Chief Albert Luthuli. [1] [2]
Bus boycotts in South Africa were a series of protests that took place in the Union of South Africa and in the present Republic of South Africa against increasing prices of transport fees and segregating practices during the Apartheid to the present.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 10 February 2025. South African system of racial separation This article is about apartheid in South Africa. For apartheid as defined in international law, see Crime of apartheid. For other uses, see Apartheid (disambiguation). This article may be too long to read and navigate comfortably. Consider ...
The Press and Apartheid: Repression and Propaganda in South Africa. University of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 978-0-608-01935-2. Pogrund, Benjamin (2000). War of Words: Memoir of a South African Journalist. Seven Stories Press. ISBN 978-1-888363-71-5. Rees, Mervyn; Day, Chris (1980). Muldergate: The Story of the Info Scandal. Macmillan South Africa.
The Amalgamated Society of Woodworkers of South Africa (ASW) was a trade union representing carpenters, joiners and those in related trades in South Africa. The union originated in 1881, when the British-based Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners (ASC&J) founded a branch in Cape Town. This was the first union to form in South Africa.
City Power Johannesburg (or Joburg City Power) is a state owned power utility, wholly owned by the City of Johannesburg.Its responsibilities include buying electricity from power producers and supplying it to the public, and installing and maintaining the electrical infrastructure in the city of Johannesburg.
Pro-apartheid South Africans attempted to justify the Bantustan policy by citing the British government's 1947 partition of India, which they claimed was a similar situation that did not arouse international condemnation. [160] Map of the black homelands in South Africa at the end of apartheid in 1994