Tension choked the air when a ten-foot-tall cross, wrapped in gasoline-soaked rags, burned wildly, as if to set the night on fire. The cross burned in the fall of 1980, on Jefferson Avenue, which runs ...

SOUTH AFRICA’S history is a testament to the resilience and strength of its people, particularly its black majority, who endured centuries of colonial oppression, apartheid, and systemic exploitation.