Achmat's anti-apartheid background gave him a legitimacy in criticising the ruling African National Congress leadership despite its attempts to paint him as a stooge of the pharmaceutical industry.
The Covenant (1980) concerns South Africa and the background of apartheid.
But Keller gives enough background on apartheid, including an early chapter on the horrors of Dutch colonialism, to explain why Mandela and his comrades would resort to such desperate measures.
Seen against the background of apartheid, however, the imperative of the title takes on a much more pointed urgency and the anxiety of the artist a far greater poignancy.
Its subject was an interracial love affair against a background of South African apartheid.
Interspersed with this personal drama is a background of the ugly, repressive apartheid regime of the minority white Afrikkaners in South Africa.
It analyzes background issues including educational history, apartheid and attitudes towards violence against women, evaluates the scale of the problem, and critiques the responses by schools, governments, and the criminal justice system to gender-based school violence.
Madikizela Mandela, who, until now, had been in the background of the ANC's struggle against apartheid, comes to the fore and becomes known as the "mother of the nation".
The background to my request was the racist apartheid government of South Africa, which was still in power at the time.
As the son of a railwayman, Carneson's white, Catholic working-class background made him unusual in the anti-apartheid struggle.
He comes from a mixed-race background, and was classified as "colored" by the apartheid government, even though he identifies himself as black.
