Thandiswa Mazwai Is the Voice of South Africa’s First Post-Apartheid Generation

Thandiswa Mazwai has sung of South Africa’s highs and lows since the country became a multiracial democracy 30 years ago. “My calling is to sing the people’s joy, to sing the people’s sadness.”

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Carter Had Complicated History With Israel, Despite Camp David Accords

After his presidency, Jimmy Carter became critical of Israel’s treatment of Palestinians and likened the situation to apartheid.

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Breyten Breytenbach, Anti-Apartheid Writer in Exile, Dies at 85

He wrote poetry in Afrikaans and prose in English in his fight against South African racial oppression, an effort that landed him in jail for seven years.

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