apartheid Stories

Travel as activism: 6 stories of Black women who refused to ‘stay put’ in apartheid South Africa
The Conversation  |  Sep 21, 2025

Their travel texts are diverse, many available only in archives. They include speeches, commentaries, handwritten accounts, interviews, letters and me...

President Ramaphosa sets up inquiry into delayed apartheid-era prosecutions
Lucy Mumbi  |  May 01, 2025

President Ramaphosa’s announcement follows a lawsuit by 25 survivors and families of apartheid victims, who accused successive governments of failing...

What is apartheid? New book for young readers explains South Africa’s racist system
The Conversation  |  Mar 23, 2025

In separating people by race, apartheid created so-called independent self-governing states known as Bantustans or homelands for African people and th...

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