RONALD REAGAN'S REPUBLICAN USA may have been a tough nut to deal with during the 80s, but harping on about the perceived slight caused by his party's treatment of Nelson Mandela, whom they Republicans' labelled a 'terrorist', ignores the substanti...
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Banned People’s Culture festival returns
THIS YEAR marks 30 years since the banning of the 'Towards the People’s Culture' festival by the Botha government in 1986, with a festival event appropriately titled Marking the '86 People's Culture Festival The original festival was meant to gather prominent artists in a collective response to t...
1989 Peace March: apartheid revisionism or memory playing tricks?
FOR Desmond Tutu, the 1989 Peace March was a “tipping point”, for Allan Boesak, it “wasn't about getting permission, it was about marching for peace come what may”. Those who were in the front of the 30 000 gathering which became the last “illegal march” under apartheid, at least in the minds of...
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