ISSUES – South Africa, Apartheid and the Coloured Population

 

ISSUES – South Africa, Apartheid and the Coloured Population

 

Click on the links below to read articles, stories, studies, etc. discussing this issue.

“Identify Yourself – The Story of Bruin-ou.com” Part I
by Charles Ash (The Multiracial Activist)
https://www.multiracial.com/readers/ash.html (February/March 2004)

“Identify Yourself – The Story of Bruin-ou.com” Part II
by Charles Ash (The Multiracial Activist)
https://www.multiracial.com/readers/ash2.html (February/March 2004)

Bruin-ou, where in the world would you find one? Everywhere
by Cornel Rayners (The Multiracial Activist)
https://www.multiracial.com/readers/rayners.html (December 2003 – January 2004)

Living as a coloured, is it not ironic?
by Cornel Rayners (The Multiracial Activist)
https://www.multiracial.com/readers/rayners2.html (December 2003 – January 2004)

Colour Bar Lives On in SA Marriage
by Michael Schmidt (allAfrica.com)
http://allafrica.com/stories/200308030179.html (August 3, 2003)

South African herd boy ‘not white’
 (BBC News)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/2940650.stm (May 27, 2003)

Mingling Despite Mistrust in South Africa
by Rachel L. Swarns (The New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/09/international/africa/09AFRI.html (December 9, 2002)

Coloured prejudice
by Hugh Russell (The Spectator)
http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old&section=current&issue=2002-11-30&id=2545 (November 30, 2002)

Sobering thoughts
by Gwen Gill (Sunday Times)
http://www.suntimes.co.za/2001/09/09/sport/cricket/crick03.htm (September 9, 2001)

Beyond the pale
by Barry Ronge (Sunday Times)
http://www.suntimes.co.za/2001/09/09/arts/ane01.htm (September 9, 2001)

With a New Play, Athol Fugard Considers South Africa’s Present
by Rachel L. Swarns (The New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/03/arts/theater/03FUGA.html?pagewanted=print (September 3, 2001)

Apartheid’s Dirty Little Secret
by Jim Peron (The Laissez Faire City Times)
http://www.zolatimes.com/V5.35/apartheid_secret.html (August 27, 2001)

S. Africa’s deep racial divide
by Ravi Nessman (Chicago Sun-Times/Associated Press)
http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-safr26.html (August 26, 2001)

Out of apartheid: S. Africa struggles
by Ravi Nessman (Detroit News/Associated Press)
http://detnews.com/2001/nation/0108/26/a05-278536.htm (August 26, 2001)

In apartheid’s wake, division in S. Africa is black vs. black – How to move into the future is driving the discord.
by Andrew Maykuth (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
http://inq.philly.com/content/inquirer/2001/08/06/front_page/BLACK06.htm (August 6, 2001)

Exchange students discover a foreign land right at home
by Andrew Maykuth (Philadelphia Inquirer)
http://inq.philly.com/content/inquirer/2001/07/26/front_page/SAF26.htm (July 26, 2001)

Viva the Bruin Ou
by Charles Ash (World Online Tiscali Network)
http://www.worldonline.co.za/news/news_center_010719.375260.html (July 19, 2001)

Mixed Feelings: The Recovery of Spoiled Identities in the New South Africa
by Nancy Scheper-Hughes (The Multiracial Activist)
https://www.multiracial.com/readers/scheper-hughes.html (April/May 2001)

A woman of extremes
by Craig McKenzie (Sunday Times)
http://www.suntimes.co.za/2001/02/04/insight/in01.htm (February 4, 2001)

Only Joking, But Healing South Africa, Too
by Rachel L. Swarns (The New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/14/world/14CAPE.html (January 14, 2001)

For high-priced actors, this indie film has value
by Susan King (The Bergen Record)
http://www.bergen.com/previews/boesman01200012013.htm (December 1, 2000)

South African Stalinism
by David Horowitz (FrontPage Magazine)
http://www.frontpagemag.com/notepad/hn08-21-00.htm (August 21, 2000)

Conservative Whitewash
by Joe Conason (Salon)
http://www.salon.com/news/col/cona/2000/08/01/south_africa/index.html (August 1, 2000)

For One Family, Apartheid Never Ends
by Rachel L. Swarns (International Herald Tribune)
http://www.iht.com/IHT/TODAY/MON/FPAGE/apart.2.html (June 12, 2000)

Apartheid Still Burdens a Girl Who Didn’t Fit
by Rachel L. Swarns (The New York Times)
http://www10.nytimes.com/library/world/africa/061000south-africa-journal.html (June 10, 2000)

“Kat” fails to live up to promise
(San Francisco Examiner)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/examiner/archive/1999/11/27/STYLE7309.dtl&type=printable (November 27, 1999)

Apartheid comes home to roost
by Katie Donovan (The Irish Times)
http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/features/1999/1108/fea2.htm (November 8, 1999)

‘Devil’s Valley’ exposes racial hypocrisy
by Sandra Chait (Seattle Times)
http://www.seattletimes.com/news/entertainment/html98/afri_19990411.html (April 11, 1999)

Facing the Truth
Moderated by Bill Moyers (PBS)
http://www.pbs.org/pov/tvraceinitiative/facingthetruth/index.html (March 30, 1999)

‘Cry, The Beloved Country’ author, subject of family dispute
by Daniel J. Wakin (Associated Press)
http://www.foxnews.com/news/wires2/0322/n_ap_0322_238.sml (March 22, 1999)

South Africa Schools Still Segregated
(Associated Press)
http://csmonitor.com/atcsmonitor/specials/bhmonth/news/p-030999saschools.html (March 9, 1999)

South Africa’s Press to Face Bias Inquiry
by Suzanne Daley (The New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/library/world/africa/111798safrica-press.html (November 17, 1998)

South Africa human rights panel launches probe of racism in the media
by Daniel J. Wakin (The Associated Press)
http://cjonline.com/stories/111798/new_southafrica.shtml (November 17, 1998)

Multiracial America and Apartheid South Africa
by James Landrith (The Multiracial Activist)
https://www.multiracial.com/editors/apartheid.html (October 1998)

Weekend All Things Considered: South African Intermarriage
by Renee Montagne (National Public Radio)
http://search.npr.org/cf/cmn/cmnps05fm.cfm?SegID=9147 (July 6, 1996)

 The Rise and Decline of Hybrid (Metis) Societies on the Frontier of Western Canada and Southern Africa
by Alvin Kienetz (The Canadian Journal of Native Studies)
http://www.brandonu.ca/Library/CJNS/3.1/kienetz.pdf (1983)

Books

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