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Full list- A history of Apartheid in South Africa
- Stephen Bantu Biko
- Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela
- Hector Pieterson
- Navanethem (Navi) Pillay
- Pass Laws and Sharpeville Massacre
- Mosiuoa Gerard Patrick "Terror" Lekota
- The turbulent 1950s - Women as defiant activists
- The Black Sash: A History of Transformation
- Khotso Seatlholo
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ArticleThe Mfecane: Understanding a Period of Transformation in Southern Africa
EventArmistice day 11th Nov 1918
EventThe first Indian people, 197 men, 89 women and 54 children, arrive in Natal
EventHugh Masekela, South African musician, is born
EventSA Prime Minister H. F. Verwoerd stabbed to death
ArticleElections in post Apartheid South Africa
EventWomen Draw up a Petition against Pass Laws
EventThe League of Nations hands over German colonies
EventNathaniel Nakasa, South African journalist and writer, dies in exile
ArchiveXenophobia in South Africa: Reflections, Narratives and Recommendations by Hussein Solomon and Hitomi Kosaka
EventSA President Nelson Mandela to step down
EventPatrice Emery Lumumba, first Prime Minister of an independent Congo, is born
EventANC leader Nelson Mandela meets Boutros Boutros
ArchiveThe Defiance Campaign, 1952: Social struggle or party stratagem?
EventUnion leader, Moses Mayekiso is reported to be under arrest on his return from Sweden.
EventThabo Mbeki, former President of SA, is born in Idutywa, Transkei
EventViolence erupts on the eve of Soweto uprising anniversary
EventSouth African Parliament votes to repeal the legal framework of Apartheid
EventGeneral C.R. de Wet was found guilty of treason for leading the Afrikaner rebellion of 1914
EventProtests against Afrikaans language in Black schools
ArchiveTeaching South African History in the Digital Age - Collaboration, Pedagogy, and Popularizing History by Jill E. Kelly & Omar Badsha
EventChief of the Zondi, Bambata is killed
EventRobert Kennedy, American politician, speaks at the University of Cape Town about the racial inequality of apartheid
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