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A group of individuals classified as white under the Population Registration Act, 1950 by successive ruling administrations of South Africa during the apartheid period (1948-1994), who held views that made them publicly oppose apartheid informally as citizen activists or as members of anti-apartheid organisations like the ANC.
In 1986, Artists Against Apartheid organised the Freedom Festival at Clapham Common in London, in which 250,000 people attended. The most famous event was The Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute , which hoped to secure his release in time for his 70th birthday in June 1988.
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Bantu Stephen Biko OMSG (18 December 1946 – 12 September 1977) was a South African anti-apartheid activist. Ideologically an African nationalist and African socialist, he was at the forefront of a grassroots anti-apartheid campaign known as the Black Consciousness Movement during the late 1960s and 1970s.
The renowned anti-apartheid writer and activist Breyten Breytenbach, jailed for his beliefs in South Africa in the 1970s, has died aged 85, his family said. He passed away in his sleep, with his ...
Denis Theodore Goldberg (11 April 1933 – 29 April 2020) was a South African social campaigner who was active in the struggle against apartheid.He was accused No. 3 in the Rivonia Trial, alongside the better-known Nelson Mandela and Walter Sisulu, where he was also the youngest of the defendants.
Former anti-apartheid student protest leader Seth Mazibuko is among activists and educators ... a crisis that threatens democracy’s hard-fought gains. ... They left the people they were fighting ...
Based on the 2012 book, the U.K.’s Barefoot Rascals teamed up with producer Robyn Slovo, daughter of Joe Slovo, who was a major figure in South Africa’s anti-Apartheid struggle, as well as ...