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District Six: 3,000 ex-residents on land claims waiting list by Diana Mellow (GroundUp), 23 September 2016
… adding an hour or more to their daily commute into the city centre. Members of interracial families were relocated … an organisation dedicated to helping…
EventSlave rebellion at the Cape led by Louis of Mauritius. Over 300 slaves and Khoi Khoi servants from outlying farms marched on Cape Town demanding their freedom
… at the Cape, and suggests a deep awareness around issues of abolition and freedom held by slaves and servants … for the insurrectionists at Salt River just…
Fortieth Anniversary of the 1946 Mine Strike
… of the time were familiar - men in regular jobs, living in urban townships with families and with deep roots in all the aspects of black urban life. These…
Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom - Bibliography
… Alexander, N. An Ordinary Country. Issues in the Transition from Apartheid to Democracy in South Africa . Pietermaritzburg, … A. Beyond the Miracle – Inside…
ArticleA Short History of ESKOM, Part 1 (1923-2001)
… electrification in South Africa. Kimberly was the first city to be electrified with streetlights installed in 1882, … and nationally oriented…
EventThe First Gay Pride March is Held in South Africa
… continent and acted as both a gay pride event and an anti-Apartheid march. The march was organised by the Gay and … homosexuality in South African law and to…
ANC statement on the passing of Epainette Mbeki, 7 June 2014
… of activism and her contribution in the struggle against apartheid. Mrs Mbeki has for decades been a pillar of the … and in your grief we share. May her Soul…
EventSAAN announces its decision to close the Rand Daily Mail
… was a liberal newspaper that operated at the height of apartheid. It was the first newspaper to address the issues of Black people at the time. Its demise…
EventBanning orders served on NUSAS leaders
… affiliation from Black Student bodies. NUSAS addressed issues of significant importance to Black South Africans, … constantly worked towards social…
EventPresentation of South African National budget of 1991
… as hopelessly inadequate and alleging that it reflected apartheid priorities in addressing the issues of unemployment and poverty …
ArticleSlave Resistance
… Slave consciousness of injustice and awareness of issues of abolition of slavery in other parts of the world … ambush the insurrectionists at Salt River just…
EventSol Kerzner admits to the Harms Commission, that he has paid R2m for the personal benefit of Chief George Matanzima
… Kerzner, who owns Sun International which runs The Sun City Resort in the North West, was accused of having paid R2 … Kerzner has a reputation of being…
EventSouth Africa’s TRC begins its formal hearings into Human Rights Violations
… Tutu, began its first formal hearings in East London City Hall. The South African TRC was set up by the Government … to help deal with violations of human…
PlaceHangberg, Hout Bay
… designated for people categorized as Coloured during the apartheid-era. Most of the about 6 000 people living in … the removal of about 30 houses. The local…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 79th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1991
… struggle for the liberation of our people from the yoke of apartheid tyranny. As a result of the victories scored … basis on the new constitution. Having…
ArticleSouth African Coloured Peoples Organisation (SACPO)
… prior to the introduction and institutionalisation of the Apartheid policy by the NP. Legislations that had an … another direction in the 1950s. Before the…
The National Arts Festival
… theatre and resistance art during the height of the apartheid era, and it still offers an opportunity for … Lotteries Commission, the National Arts Council,…
Statement by Oliver Tambo to the Press, 16 November 1984, Addis Ababa
… our continent as a whole, central among which are the issues of the liberation of Namibia and South Africa. The … a renewed offensive by the African…
Statement to the Press by O. R. Tambo, Addis Ababa, 16 November 1984
… our continent as a whole, central among which are the issues of the liberation of Namibia and South Africa. The … a renewed offensive by the African…
PlaceDie Grootkerk in Bosmanstraat
… story of our country especially with regards to the Apartheid era. As “Moederkerk” of the Dutch Reformed … to loose members. Demographic changes within the…
BiographyDr Mamphela Aletta Ramphele
… was her first direct experience of Blacks’ defiance to the apartheid system. Ramphele’s political awakening came at a …
BiographyJoseph Masobila Mdluli
… significant role played by Mdluli in the struggle against apartheid became known. It was alleged that he attended …
BiographyBilly Nair
… These interviews have been published by the 'Overcoming Apartheid' website …
BiographyElizabeth Adriana (Nanna) Abrahams
… majority of South African activists were banned by the Apartheid regime. One of these activists was the general … Anti-Apartheid activist and trade unionist …
Dance For All (DFA)
… of CAPAB Ballet in Cape Town , now known as the Cape Town City Ballet. Philip Boyd, who was a principal dancer for Cape Town City Ballet, held ballet classes…
ArticleKing Kong the Musical 1959 -1961
… challenges, with the pass laws rife and full in force in apartheid South Africa. There was always an actor who would … theatre production. Approval was…
Nelson Mandela Timeline 1920-1929
… to protest the exclusion of African freehold title in the Urban Areas Bill. The issue of pass laws is discussed at a … committee member of the SACP, MK Chief…
ArchiveChapter 18 New Life Number 9 2002- 2009 by Denis Goldberg
… in South Africa even though I knew Pretoria only as the city of my imprisonment. But we both liked it. The sky was so … who were former government officials…
EventCODESA II Talks end in deadlock
… Congress (ANC) fail to reach agreement on certain key issues. CODESA was a negotiating forum created to facilitate a new constitutional dispensation for a…
OR Tambo Memorial Lecture delivered by President Jacob Zuma, 25 October 2015, Port Elizabeth
… to go and galvanize international support for the anti-apartheid struggle. He was to set foot on the land of his … and chairpersons of university councils to…