The risk of resistance
Source 1
Bernstein discusses Steve Biko’s death in detention and the rationale of the police to keep him naked during his interrogation. She includes Biko’s own words to explain how white and black people viewed each other and related to each other.
Source 2
In his poem, Today, Nise Malange discusses the oppressors and resistors of apartheid, particularly those who have passed away, and the impact they had on those engaged in the struggle against apartheid.
Source 3
This article, written by an anonymous press photographer, is in reaction to the restrictions on the freedom of expression and freedom of the media that existed during apartheid. The photographer felt that the restrictions meant that the experiences of the victims of apartheid could not be easily shared with others.
Source 4
From the mid-1980s protest against apartheid intensified. Mass funerals became a means of resistance. This photograph is of a funeral of young activists killed in the struggle.
Source 5
Zubeida Jaffer was a Cape Times journalist, a community activist and a founding member of the UDF. She was detained by the security police who poisoned and tortured her. This is an extract from Antjie Krog’s book, Country of My Skull, in which she recounts Zubeida’s testimony at the TRC. Antjie Krog is a poet, author and journalist. She was an anti-apartheid activist. During the TRC hearings she reported for the Afrikaans newspaper, Die Burger.
