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The Story You Don’t Know About the End of Apartheid
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“How history is told often depends on who tells it first, which also means it is their version of history. When it comes to the end of apartheid in South Africa and the release of Nelson Mandela from prison, a lot of what we know we learned from the South African leader’s 1995 autobiography… ” ...
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SABC2 Celebrates Heritage Month with Rainbow Makers Series – Plot For Peace airing on 28th September
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“Rainbow Makers, a four-part series of educational and entertaining films which highlight South Africa’s untold and most important heritage stories, will feature on SABC2 at 20.00 every Sunday. The films are an initiative of the Ichikowitz Family Foundation, through the African Oral History Archive (AOHA). “ Plot For Peace will air as the third narrative ...
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Culturecrit’s Interview with Mandy Jacobson
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“At 17-years-old, Ollivier and one million other French nationals left their homeland Algeria after the country’s 1962 independence. During his first visit to South Africa in 1981, he recognised a similar fate – white inhabitants ‘sleepwalking to the brink of disaster.’ To avoid them being ‘thrown into the sea,’ a peaceful negotiation to the end ...
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“Plot for a Premiere” – A review by the Sunday World’s Swashwi
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“Although it was a celebratory occasion, the flooding back of apartheid-era memories was unavoidable… I bawled my eyes out.” Read Swashwi’s review of the VIP Johannesburg Premiere of Plot For Peace, which was attended by Winnie Mandela, Pik Botha and Matthew Phosa. The screening was followed by a panel discussion including Jean-Yves Ollivier , Mandy ...
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Sunday World – “The Man Behind The Scenes”
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“Some of the incidents explored are known, others not as leaders reveal how the apartheid government used cloak-and-dagger tactics – holding talks with neighbouring states’ leaders whilst bombings and killings continued unabated…[Jean Yves Ollivier] became a reluctant parallel diplomat, negotiating with the regime…”. Read more of the article below (August 3rd, 2014). ...
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