Two fronts of anti-apartheid struggle: South Africa and Canada

Having been, for most of my adult life, a student of southern African, including South African, affairs, I was pleased but also intrigued to receive an invitation from Ingrid Fiske and the South African Association of Canadian Studies to come to South Africa to give several talks and seminars in this country. This included a public lecture on the topic presented in this essay - an essay which explores both the collaboration between Canada and South Africa in support of apartheid, as well as the much more savoury links established between (many) Canadians and (most) South Africans in resistance to that system. Let us first explore the former of these two possible emphases.