South Africa came late to television; when it finally arrived in the late 1970s the rest of the world had already begun to boycott the country because of aparth

The late 1980s were a dismal time inside South Africa. Mandela's African National Congress was banned. Thousands of ANC supporters were jailed without charge. G

A powerful re-reading of modern South African history following apartheid that examines the violent transformation during the transition era and how this was en

Media, democratization, and the end(s) of apartheid -- Structured absences and communicative spaces -- In the absence of television -- "They stayed 'til the fla

Black South African artists have typically had their work labeled "African art" or "township art," qualifiers that, when contrasted with simply "modernist art,"