Entries Tagged to 'Apartheid'
Author Willie Currie talks about: his novel Blue Eland Foxtrot; the story in the novel and its autobiographical aspects; the impact of the UDF; whether Afrikaans nationalism was a cousin of Nazism; and the eerie parallels between apartheid and the present day Government.
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August 11, 2017
Film-maker David Forbes talks about: who the Cradock Four were and what they did; the murky circumstances of their assassination in 1985; the unsatisfactory testimony by the police who carried out the killing to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission; and how the ANC Government sought to surpress any attempt to get at the truth of what really happened.
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September 28, 2013
Former SACP activist Charley Lewis reflects on why it was right politically and morally to take up arms against the unjust Government of the Apartheid era and of the dilemmas involved in an armed conflict of this kind.
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June 24, 2012
Former SACP activist Charley Lewis talks about: how he became involved in politics in the Apartheid era in South Africa and training in Moscow for a life underground.
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June 23, 2011
