PODCAST - Life under Apartheid

Thapelo Moloantoa (Journalist), Dr Wayne Dooling (Historian) and Zita Holbourne (Artist and activist)

1980s South Africa was a nation in the grip of Apartheid - a regime as brutal as it was absurd. Every person was assigned a racial category: White, Indian, Coloured or Native. And because Apartheid law prohibited people from different categories from living the same area, you could be torn from your family, your friends, your community.

1:28 - Education disrupted by the Group Areas Act

4:18 - Attending a historically white university as a non-white student

7:42 - The State of Emergency and violence in the Townships

11:00 - Resisting the Apartheid regime

15:39 - Interactions with people assigned different racial categories

18:01 - Opportunities to enjoy sports and leisure

23:58 - Approaching the '90s and the end of Apartheid