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Address of the Deputy President of the African National Congress, Nelson Mandela, to the Parliament of Canada Ottawa, 18 June 1990
… country, even as guests, emphasises the iniquity of the apartheid system which we are all determined to abolished … stands at the core of our struggle. We…
"Racial Crisis in South Africa" . Address to meeting of Pakistan Institute of International Affairs, March 2, 1961
… police and their military cannot subdue 12 million people. Apartheid received its greatest condemnation on 21 March last … world. The matter was raised in…
EventSA’s Fifa membership reinstated
… policy on sport. Previous to this, in keeping with pre-apartheid segregation, leagues had been divided according to … unmoved by the growing international…
EventANC President Albert Luthuli banned
… Campaign, a non-violent, national, anti- pass protest, the apartheid government summoned him to Pretoria. Here he was … Click here for a list of people who…
EventPresident F.W. de Klerk announces the Group Areas Act will be repealed.
… new legislation the government had planned to repeal major apartheid laws. To mention a few, the Land Act of 1913, the … and segregating, this was in…
Artist. Activist. Historian. This man is preserving the past to protect the future (beautifulnews.co.za)
… his life. Born in 1945, he grew up under the oppression of apartheid, facing injustice on a daily basis. He was … South African children of all races and…
PlaceConstitution Hill Museum, Johannesburg
… rather controversial transition from Colonialism and Apartheid to Democracy. The site served as a Prison and … “Native Prison”, and the Women’s Prison…
ArchiveClass, Consciousness and Organisation: Indian Political Resistance in Durban, South Africa 1979 - 1996 - by Kumi Naidoo
… College, D. Phil., Michaelmas, 1997 Resistance to the apartheid system, led by the African National Congress (ANC) … of the city and shaped the contours of…
EventDay of Reconciliation celebrated as a public holiday in SA for the first time
… , which was launched to wage an armed struggle against the apartheid government. Prior to its formation, the ANC had largely approached the fight against…
PlaceRegina Mundi, Catholic Church, Soweto
… Baptista Montini, the Cardinal of Milan. During the Apartheid era the Regina Mundi Church opened its doors to Anti-Apartheid groups and provided shelter to…
ArticleBlack Consciousness Movement of Azania (BCMA)
… well-established networks, linked to international anti-apartheid movements, in Europe and the US. Through its … youth and the poisoned arrow head in the…
Armed struggle & the advancement of the student and labour movements, 1967-1976
… wing of the ANC, was based almost entirely in exile as apartheid policies were further tightened by B. J. Vorster , … period of ninety days. With these…
ArticleMandela and the South African Communist Party
… gathered to perpetrate violence against the repressive apartheid state. Succeeding the Sharpeville incident, a … to be the official launch of MK hostilities…
ArticleEOAN Group
… Didi Sydow and Gwen Michaels. Despite the constraints of Apartheid the EOAN Group achieved great heights, however the … New York/ London. 2005, pp 153…
Grade 11 - Topic 4 Timeline
… . It has been the ruling party in South Africa since apartheid. 1948 The state of Israel is established. Israel is …
South African Labour history
… It was made up of... read more "Land and Labour during Apartheid" Land and labour are two very important elements of …
ArticleContemporary issues: Women’s struggle, 1900-1994
… in South Africa has been fueled by both systems of apartheid and patriarchy. It is evident that, with the legacy …
ArticleTimeline: Father Trevor Huddleston
… Julius Nyerere address the founding meeting of the Anti-Apartheid Movement (AAM) in London. 1960 Huddleston is …
June 17
… had refused to go to work. It was indeed a crisis for the Apartheid government. It was also a serious loss of face in …
ArticleThe Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa
… the 1960s was different that of the previous decade. The apartheid government had banished the Black resistance …
ArticleCongress of the People and the Freedom Charter
… campaign. It served to consolidate an alliance of the anti-apartheid forces of the 1950s composed of the African …
PlaceSteve Biko Bridge, East London
… of South Africa's great leaders in the struggle against apartheid. One of the most vital aspects of the bridge is its … famous for having held many political…
ArchiveChristian principles and race problems by Jan H. Hofmeyr
… against the principles of Christianity, in view of the apartheid, oppression and suffering of the South African … against the principles of Christianity, in…
ArchiveChristian principles and race problems
… against the principles of Christianity, in view of the apartheid, oppression and suffering of the South African … against the principles of Christianity, in…
EventThe Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act commences
… in South Africa is passed. The law was introduced by the apartheid government and part of its overall policy of … Coloured, Indian and Black. Using these…
EventChief Kaiser Matanzima is elected Chief Minister
… the emigrant Thembu clan. He was a strong proponent of the Apartheid regime’s Bantu Authorities Act (1951).For his support of the Apartheid government,…
EventMaria Mary Burton, former national president of the Black Sash, is born
… Africa in 1961, and upon witnessing the injustices of Apartheid, became a member of the Black Sash in 1965. Founded … to Burton's membership, the Black Sash…
EventMartin Luther King, Junior, is born
… led by the National Party under D.F. Malan was introducing Apartheid in 1948, King was graduating from Morehouse … from the elections of 1948 won by National…
EventJeannette Schoon and her daughter are killed by a letter bomb
… bomb at Lubango, in northern Angola on 28 June 1984. Anti-apartheid activist Marius Schoon (Jeannette's husband) was … of the bombing because of his prior…
EventPW Botha states that the Soviets will not prevent South Africa from attacking ANC bases in Mozambique
… of its neighbouring countries in order to prop up the Apartheid system, resulted in strong condemnation by … of its neighboring countries in order to prop up…