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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…
EventESCOM announces its decision to order two nuclear power reactors from France
… had to withdraw due to political pressure due to the Apartheid policies of the South African State. The Apartheid government claimed that they were…
EventChief Albert Luthuli, Nobel Peace Prize winner and former President of the ANC, is killed in Groutville
… close to the home that he had been confined to by the Apartheid regime in Groutville, (then) Stanger, … and defiance brought him into direct conflict with…
EventAbolition of Internal Security Act
… This measure had been one of the most hated pieces of apartheid legislation and had been used against tens of thousands of anti-apartheid protesters. The…
EventAt least 150 people die in clashes between the ANC and IFP
… two years in 1987. Most violent action was directed at the apartheid government, but soon spread between residents of … for the violence as it was later…
EventPolice break up demonstrations against South African rebel Cricket Tour
… of South Africa by the English Cricket team. Angry anti apartheid demonstrators including the African National … who went on the tour received financial…
EventPW Botha gives the “Rubicon” Speech in Durban
… to consider immediate and major reforms in the country's apartheid system. This meant the abolishing of the apartheid system. In a speech that had been…
PlaceQueens Fort Military Museum, Bloemfontein
… all major military conflicts from 1820, including the apartheid struggle. The Queen’s Fort Military Museum, in … War, World War I, World War II and the…
EventP.W. Botha, former South African State President, appears in court for refusing to testify at the TRC
… contained details of his involvement in the gruesome apartheid killings of black freedom fighters allegedly arranged by the apartheid regime. Botha was asked…
ArchiveJakes Gerwel: The epitome of integrity and courage by Niren Tolsi, 30 November 2012
… transform the University of the Western Cape (UWC) from an apartheid "bush university" into the "intellectual home of … (an Afrikaner nationalist…
Speech by Oliver Tambo on behalf of the Liberation Movements, at the twenty-third session of the assembly of Heads of State and Government of the Organisation of African Unity, 27 July 1987, Addis Ababa
… that there can be no peace in southern Africa until the apartheid system is destroyed and uprooted in its entirety. … to be engaged precisely in this…
Appendix 1: Freedom Fighters On The March: A Message From Dr. Y. M. Dadoo To The Indian People
… Indian people Brothers and Sisters The struggle against apartheid and for Freedom has entered a newdecisive phase. … Coloured people, has hadenough of racial…
Document 29 - Kenneth Hendrickse, “The Opposition in Congress”, The Citizen 3, 3, 4 March 1958
… It is multi-racialism - a gratuitous concession apartheid - which is at the root of all other evils in … serves only one purpose: to conserve and entrench…
EventGeneral J.C. Smuts (80), former prime minister of SA, dies
… and Smuts with them, in effect considered the policy of apartheid or total segregation altogether impractical. In … a policy steering a middle course between…
EventDue to insufficient evidence South African police are cleared of charges with regards to the death of Steve Biko
… Steve Biko, who died at the hands of apartheid security police on September 12, 1977, is widely seen as the greatest martyr of the anti-apartheid movement. …
SACTU press release in ‘New Age’, 22 November 1962
… arrested] people in their homes or flats he will make Apartheid workable and just? Does he think that the non-White … 'marked' by a member of the Special…
Letter by Oliver Tambo to the OAU Secretary-General, Mr. William Eteki Mboumoua, 01 June 1974
… the question of the destruction of the criminal system of apartheid in South Africa and the liberation of our oppressed … the world, who are threatened by…
Letter to the OAU Secretary-General, Mr. William Eteki Mboumoua by O. R. Tambo, 1974
… the question of the destruction of the criminal system of apartheid in South Africa and the liberation of our oppressed … the world, who are threatened by…
Opening Address to the ANC National Consultative Conference by O. R. Tambo, Johannesburg, 14 December 1990
… an all-round offensive which has finally brought the apartheid system to the brink of defeat. As a result, the … in the townships and elsewhere are a painful…
EventLanga, Uitenhage Massacre: 20 killed by police on Sharpeville Commemoration Day
… the massacre is not as widely remembered today as other apartheid atrocities, such as those at Sharpeville and … the country. By July the tensions had grown…
EventThe South African Government passes the Group Areas Act
… Apartheid as a system was obsessed with separating the … South Africans lived side by side. On 27 April 1950, the Apartheid government passed the Group…
EventGriffiths Mxenge is murdered
… Mxenge , an African National Congress (ANC) veteran and apartheid activist, was assassinated and his body was … David Tshikalanga. All were policemen and…
EventSADF takes over security of Northern Natal from the SAP to prevent infiltration into SA by Liberation Movements
… state of security that marked the eighties convinced the Apartheid government that a revision of its approach to … a policing capacity was however not a new…
EventDaily Dispatch editor, Donald Woods, arrives in Britain with his family
… and Botswana. Woods was prosecuted seven times under the apartheid government's publication laws and sentenced to jail … he wrote eight books and campaigned…