Apartheid in popular culture

Films

• Goodbye Bafana, about Nelson Mandela's censor, James Gregory.
• Invictus, starring Matt Damon and Morgan Freeman and directed by Clint Eastwood. A film based on Nelson Mandela's role in the 1995 Rugby World Cup in South Africa. The story is based on the John Carlin book Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Changed a Nation.
• Stander, about the South African police officer-turned-bank-robber André Stander, during the 1970s and 1980s.
• Lethal Weapon 2, starring Mel Gibson and Danny Glover, about two detectives investigating a South African diplomat who runs a drug smuggling ring.
• Cry Freedom, about the activist Steven Biko and journalist Donald Woods
• The Power of One, based on the novel by Bryce Courtenay
• Sarafina!, a musical that premiered in 1988, depicting the Soweto Riots.
• Cry, the Beloved Country, based on the 1948 novel by Alan Paton
• A Dry White Season, based on the novel by André Brink
• The Wilby Conspiracy, a 1975 thriller directed by Ralph Nelson, based on the 1972 novel by Peter Driscoll
• A World Apart, a 1988 anti-apartheid drama written by Shawn Slovo and directed by Chris Menges
• Bopha!, a 1993 drama directed by Morgan Freeman and starring Danny Glover
• The Color of Friendship, a 2000 Disney Channel Original Movie
• In My Country, based on the 1998 book Country of My Skull by Antjie Krog, about the findings of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission
• Catch a Fire, based on the story of Patrick Chamusso, an apolitical man who becomes a guerrilla fighter at the height of apartheid.
• Red Dust, starring Hilary Swank, based on the novel Red Dust by Gillian Slovo, about the Truth and Reconciliation Commission trials that gave amnesty to those who told the whole truth about atrocities committed during the apartheid era.
• Skin, based on the book When She Was White: The True Story of a Family Divided by Race by Judith Stone, about Sandra Laing, a South African woman born to white parents, who was classified as "Coloured" during the apartheid era.
• District 9 ; the title and premise of District 9 were inspired by events that took place in District Six, Cape Town, during the apartheid era.
• Black Butterflies, named after the poem by Ingrid Jonker, daughter of Abraham Jonker. Nelson Mandela used her poem "The Child" in his first speech in the South African Parliament in 1994.

  Books

• When Smuts Goes by Arthur Keppel-Jones
• Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
• Burger's Daughter by Nadine Gordimer
• Tsotsi by Athol Fugard
• The Covenant by James A. Michener
• July's People by Nadine Gordimer
• "Master Harold"...and the Boys by Athol Fugard
• Life & Times of Michael K by J. M. Coetzee — Booker–McConnell Prize
• Kaffir Boy by Mark Mathabane
• Age of Iron by J. M. Coetzee — 1990 Sunday Express Book of the Year
• Vortex by Larry Bond and Patrick Larkin.
• Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee — Booker–McConnell Prize
• Karoo Boy: A Novel by Troy Blacklaws
• October by Zoë Wicomb
• 117 Days by Ruth First
• The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay
• Down Second Avenue by Es'kia Mphahlele
• A Dry White Season by André Brink
• Fools and Other Stories by Njabulo Ndebele
• ' by Anthony Sampson
• Maru by Bessie Head
• Miriam's Song by Mark Mathabane
• My Traitor's Heart by Rian Malan
• Naught for Your Comfort by Trevor Huddleston
• The True Confessions of an Albino Terrorist by Breyten Breytenbach
• ' by Judith Stone
• by Lauren Beukes
• No Turning Back: A Novel of South Africa by Beverley Naidoo
• Journey of a Hope Merchant: From Apartheid to the Elite World of Solo Yacht Racing by Neal Petersen
• Mother to Mother by Sindiwe Magona
• Tandia by Bryce Courtenay
• The Sentinel by Madge Swindells
• The Grass Is Singing by Doris Lessing
• Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela
• Ways of Dying by Zakes Mda

  Poems

• "Nothing's Changed" by Tatamkhulu Afrika
• "Still Standing" by Athol Williams AE Ballakisten in Heap of Stones
• "Mandela and I" by Athol Williams a.k.a. AE Ballakisten in Heap of Stones
• "Leaders Great" by Mayihlome Tshwete

  Popular music

• "Afrikaans" from the album Rainbow's End by Resurrection Band
• "Biko" from the album Peter Gabriel by Peter Gabriel
• "Zuid Afrikan" from the album Between Heaven 'n Hell by Resurrection Band
• "Soweto Soul" from the album Sound Alarm by Michael Anderson
• "Gimme Hope Jo'anna" from the album File Under Rock by Eddy Grant
• "Colours" from the album ...But Seriously by Phil Collins
• "Fire In Soweto" and "Papa's Land" by Sonny Okosun
• "Free Mandela" by Majek Fashek
• "Free Nelson Mandela" by The Specials
• "Sun City" by Artists United Against Apartheid
• "Township Rebellion" by Rage Against the Machine
• "Silver and Gold" from the 1988 album Rattle and Hum by U2
• "Blanke Skaamte" from the album Bloeisels by Straatligkinders
• "Weeping" by Josh Groban and Ladysmith Black Mambazo
• "It's Wrong " from the album In Square Circle by Stevie Wonder
• "Apartheid" from the album Equal Rights by Peter Tosh
• "Mandela Day" from the album Street Fighting Years by Simple Minds
• "Mortal Man" by Kendrick Lamar
• "Cry for Freedom" by White Lion