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unusual facts about apartheid in South Africa



Daniella Pellegrini

Due to the Apartheid government and international pressure, South Africa had been exiled from international sports competitions for almost a decade and Miss Pellegrini, alongside great tumblers like Tseko Mogotsi, was making history by being one of the first competitors to join the South African national team, to receive Springbok Colours and to represent her country on an international platform.

GĂ©rard Rudolf

He received some notoriety as a gutsy actor and outspoken opponent to the Apartheid regime at the time, he also campaigned against the forced military conscription by the Government.

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Leicester City Council prevented Leicester Football Club, a rugby club, from using the ground after some club members took part in a tournament in apartheid South Africa.

John Brereton Barlow

When the paper was published in the British Medical Journal the international publicity highlighted the poor socio-economic conditions of the children living under the laws of apartheid, the South African government was critical of the study.

The Cure at Troy

At the time of its composition, Heaney saw themes of the Philoctetes as consonant with the contemporary political situation in South Africa, as the apartheid regime fell and Nelson Mandela was released from prison without a full-scale war.


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Far right in the United Kingdom

The group gave strong support to Apartheid in South Africa and to Ian Smith's illegal declaration of independence in Rhodesia.

The party supported extreme loyalism in Northern Ireland, and attracted Conservative Party members who had become disillusioned after Harold Macmillan had recognised the right to independence of the African colonies, and had criticized Apartheid in South Africa.

Freedom Beast

That issue takes place during the rule of apartheid in South Africa; Dominic was under arrest for taking pictures of racially motivated acts of violence being committed by white Afrikaner policemen.

Leanne Pooley

Her documentary Try Revolution explores how rugby was used to help end apartheid in South Africa and featured among others Archbishop Desmond Tutu.

Montana Logging and Ballet Co.

There the group met Nobel Peace Prize laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu, for whom they wrote the song, Take the Barriers Down addressing apartheid in South Africa and elsewhere around the world.

Peter Hain

In 1971 director John Goldschmidt produced a film for Granada's World in Action programme featuring Peter Hain debating Apartheid in South Africa at the Oxford Union.