- What restrictions had the South African government already placed on Albert Lutuli by the time he won the Nobel Peace Prize?
- How did the Sharpeville massacre earlier in 1960 shape the context in which Lutuli's prize was awarded?
- Why did the South African government deny Lutuli a passport to travel to Oslo for the ceremony?
- What was the significance of Lutuli being the first African laureate of the Nobel Peace Prize?
Apartheid and South Africa
The system of racial segregation in South Africa and its end.
- How did Desmond Tutu's position as an Anglican clergyman shield him from the same repression faced by other anti-apartheid leaders?
- What role did the South African Council of Churches play in organizing non-violent resistance to apartheid?
- Why did the Nobel Committee frame Tutu's award around a sustained campaign rather than a single act?
- How did Nadine Gordimer portray the everyday mechanics of apartheid in her fiction rather than through polemic?
- Why did the South African government ban several of Gordimer's books, and how did she respond?
- What did F.W. de Klerk announce on 2 February 1990, and how did it change South Africa's trajectory?
- How long had Nelson Mandela been imprisoned before his release from Victor Verster Prison?
- How smooth was South Africa's transition to its first democratic elections in April 1994?
- How does the Blaster anti-carjacking device work, and what triggers it?
- Why was vehicle theft such a severe problem in South Africa in the late 1990s?