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Shared Reflections Offered by Listening to Johnny Mbizo Dyani's Born Under the Heat [PDF]

open access: yesKronos, 2023
Originally written as a lecture-presentation for the 2021 South African Society for Research in Music (SASRIM) conference, this text shares our ongoing collaborative study of Born Under the Heat, an album by Johnny Mbizo Dyani.
Sinazo Mtshemla, Ben Verghese
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Aporien des Kulturboykotts. Anti-Apartheid-Bewegung, ANC und der Konflikt um Paul Simons Album »Graceland« (1985–1988)

open access: yesZeithistorische Forschungen, 2016
Music played an important role as a political medium for the anti-apartheid movement, particularly in the 1980s. Drawing on sources from the UK and South Africa, the article investigates the controversy surrounding Paul Simon’s album Graceland (1986 ...
Detlef Siegfried
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Nigeria, Zimbabwe and the Struggle for Black Majority Rule in South Africa

open access: yesABUAD Journal of the Humanities-AGIDIGBO, 2018
This work examines the contribution of Nigeria and Zimbabwe to the liquidation of apartheid and institutionalised racism in South Africa. It analyses the diplomatic engagement of both countries in intergovernmental organizations such as the UN, OAU and ...
Charles O. Osarumwense
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Sweden Against Apartheid: A Historical Overview

open access: yesThe Thinker, 2023
Sweden’s relations with the South African liberation movements date back to the 1960s, when the Swedish anti-apartheid movement arose. In addition to moral support and about $400 million dollars in financial support, Sweden became the first Western ...
Anna-Mart van Wyk
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The ANC and Apartheid South Africa’s Nuclear Weapons Program

open access: yesThe Thinker
The African National Congress (ANC) was established in 1912 and banned by the apartheid government in 1960. Many members of the organisation went into exile, and it continued underground.
Jo-Ansie van Wyk, Anna-Mart van Wyk
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Deconstructing Gangsterism in South Africa: Uncovering the Need for Gender-Sensitive Policies

open access: yesCosmopolitan Civil Societies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2022
Although the dawn of democracy promised a new beginning in South Africa, lingering effects of Apartheid remained, including the struggle to address gang violence and gender-based violence amidst the backdrop of widespread organised crime and corruption,
Clara Viltoft
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Ökonomie und Ökumene. Westdeutsche und südafrikanische Kirchen und das Apartheid-System in den 1970er- und 1980er-Jahren

open access: yesZeithistorische Forschungen, 2016
The extensive relations maintained by the Protestant Church in Germany with South Africa during the apartheid era led to conflicts in West German Protestantism.
Sebastian Justke, Sebastian Tripp
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Excerpts from a Conversation with Renfrew Christie and Rodney Wilkinson, during the Conference on ‘Anti-Nuclear Activism in Africa: A Historical Perspective’, held at the Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study, 3 April 2023.

open access: yesThe Thinker
The focus of the conference is on anti-nuclear activism as part of the anti-apartheid struggle. We are curious to know of the international links during this period and the engagement with the government of the day.
Jo-Ansie van Wyk
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Cheia de axé (full of axé): Spirituality, resistance, and repair in Pernambuco's Afro‐Brazilian traditional communities

open access: yesFeminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article explores how Afro‐Brazilian communities in Pernambuco respond to state‐led industrial development through culturally rooted practices of resistance and repair. Drawing on archival and ethnographic research in the coastal municipalities of Cabo de Santo Agostinho and Ipojuca, this study traces the effects of Brazil's large‐scale ...
Shelly Annette Biesel
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Higher Education Governance as a Mediator of Movements Toward Justice

open access: yesNew Directions for Higher Education, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This chapter explores the intersection of higher education governance and social movements, focusing on how governance actors respond to equity‐focused demands. Integrating scholarship from governance and social movement theory, we develop a framework to analyze the conditions under which actors can adopt or resist social change initiatives ...
Crystal L. Couch   +2 more
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