A few month’s back we wrote about the important role that musicians played during apartheid by encouraging the public to take action against the state. In a similar vein, political artworks printed on posters and distributed, sometimes in their tens of thousands, were instrumental in educating community members as to what was going on around them, and … Read more
Otelo Burning, a South African-directed film that opened the Durban International Film Festival in 2011, has as its backdrop the township of Lamontville, and the political violence that erupted there during the 1980s. Much like Mpumalanga that we wrote about last week, Lamontville too was besieged by infighting during the 1980s as members of the … Read more
Established in the early 1980s, the United Democratic Front (UDF) was a coalition of hundreds of organisations that banded together with the common aim of non-racialism. The UDF has an interesting, if somewhat dark, history in KwaZulu-Natal. Its first regional committee was from the then Natal province and was set up in May 1983 but … Read more