Israel must not be allowed to participate in international sports while simultaneously cementing its
apartheid, racist regime in Palestine.
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We will talk against all acts of racism and
apartheid. We will continue to fly the Palestinian flag and speak against Israeli
apartheid, aggression and occupation from the streets if we are denied venues.
Since the collapse of
apartheid in 1993 and the country's first democratic elections a year later, they, like countless fellow cricketers, sportsmen and administrators of colour, who suffered the humiliation of international sporting exclusion throughout most of the 20th century, have belatedly if not retrospectively been acknowledged and recognised.
Spurred on by Mandela's unlikely release, many believed that
apartheid in South Africa was forever condemned to the dustbin of history.
Some reforms of the
apartheid system were undertaken, including allowing for Indian and coloured political representation in parliament, but these measures failed to appease most activist groups.
Yet the residents of Crossroads still managed to defy
apartheid through a "politics of presence" (xv).
In a sense, Makhulu has a strong personal interest in this topic: her father was an anti-apartheid activist stationed in Botswana, and it was there as a child she was first exposed to
apartheid (xv).
Anne-Maria Makhulu's Making Freedom adds to existing scholarship on the effects of
apartheid on Black South Africans and how the country's Black residents found ways to conquer a system built on ensuring their imprisonment (in various ways) within their own country.
LOCATED IN BUSTLING Johannesburg, South Africa, the
Apartheid Museum traces segregation along with the diversity of its people.