The Anti-Apartheid Movement and Acts of Defiance item set is a curated collection of seven digitised primary sources held by the Cory Library for Humanities Research at Rhodes University. This set brings together pamphlets, newsletters, inventories, and correspondence that reflect resistance to apartheid and civic actions within South Africa, particularly relating to grassroots organisations and political pressure groups active in the 1980s.
Included are materials documenting criticisms of state actions, commentary on youth political mobilisation, inventories of activism-related archival collections (e.g., the Rosemary Smith Collection), and letters from civil society actors such as IDASA and the Black Sash. These items illustrate a range of responses to apartheid policies and provide insight into public dissent, civil society networks, and the mobilisation of activists and organisations during a period of intensifying struggle against the apartheid regime.
