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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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ArchiveWho is Navi Pillay, the South African judge who won the Nobel prize? We asked her biographer
BiographyNavanethem (Navi) Pillay
Article
Brenda Fassie’s 1997 hit song Vulindlela still raises questions about South Africa as a nation
Event5 bodies found: Kempton park killings
Article
Ambassador Lindiwe Mabuza and her connection with Scotland: An Appreciation by Brian Filling
EventGoldstone Commission investigate the Bisho Massacre
ArchiveThe Biko Inquest: ‘We carry our history with us’ - The road from liberation to disillusionment by Ashwin Desai
BiographySunny Girja Singh
BiographyStephen Bantu Biko
EventThe second elections to the Coloured Persons’ Representative Council result in the Labour Party holding the majority seats
ArchiveObituary: Hazel Goldreich (Berman)
EventYusuf Dadoo, political activist, is born
ArchiveSouth Africa’s struggle songs against apartheid come from a long tradition of resistance
ArchiveKenya’s female freedom fighters were the silent heroes of the anti colonial movement - here are some of their stories
ArticleIndian Passive Resistance in South Africa: 1946 - 1948
EventUDF is launched
EventSteven Biko is arrested.
EventPolice open fire, killing 34 striking mine-workers at Marikana
ArticleThe 1956 Women’s March in Pretoria
ArticleHistory of Women’s Struggle in South Africa
ArchiveRemembering Shanthie Naidoo: A Tribute by David Kenvyn
ArchiveRemembering a relentless revolutionary: Dawood Seedat
EventTakudzwa Ngwenya, Zimbabwean-born American rugby player, is born
Event