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{{quote|''"I've travelled this old world of ours from Barnsley to Peru''
''I've had sunstroke in the arctic and a swim in Tinbuktu''
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''and a working Yorkshire miner''
''But I've never met a nice South African."''
South Africa from 1948 to 1990.
During
Making things a tad more complex in this [[Cold War]] era, the largest anti-apartheid group ANC (African National Congress, the party that Nelson Mandela belonged to) were openly allied with Marxists. This was the paradox however, as because the white South Africans were so vehemently anti-Communist the anti-apartheid movement could get little support in for some time otherwise, and no arms definitely, at least not from the West (USSR was more than willing to provide military training and weapons, however). Meanwhile, the US, UK and Israel supported the white apartheid government.
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{{examples|The Apartheid Era in Fiction}}
* ''Eagle in the Sky'', a novel by Wilbur Smith about a South African pilot in the Israeli Air Force during the Yom Kippur War.
* The [[Tom Sharpe]] novels ''[[Riotous Assembly]]'' and ''[[Indecent Exposure]]'', satires of the regime. Sharpe spent 10 years in the country until thrown out in 1961.
* [[Wonderella]], as a [[Perky Goth|teenager]], thought it had something to do with elephant poaching.
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* ''Red Dust'' is a film that explores the Apartheid Era through flashbacks during a truth and reconciliation hearing (hearings where those guilty of Apartheid-era crimes, on both sides, can admit their guilt, apologize and receive pardons).
* [[Spitting Image]] released a song attacking Apartheid called "I've never met a nice South African" (the first verse of which is at the top of the page) which does admit that nice (ie anti-Apartheid) South Africans exist, and that they got put in prison.
* Larry Bond, co-author of ''[[Red Storm Rising]]'' and creator of the ''Harpoon'' tabletop wargame, wrote a novel entitled ''Vortex'', which chronicled a Mandela-less final war with Cuba, Angola, and Namibia on one side, South Africa on another side, the US and Great Britian on a third, and the various revolutionary groups fighting everyone. Better than it sounds.
* ''[[Invictus]]'' begins at the very end of the Apartheid era, and deals with the Mandela government's use of the South African national rugby team, long associated with whites in general and Afrikaans-speakers in particular, as a means of unifying the nation.
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