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EventAdriaan Vlok applies for amnesty
… Former apartheid era Minister of Law and Order, Adriaan Vlok, … headquarters in Johannesburg in 1987. He became the first apartheid minister to approach and…
EventDesmond Tutu is appointed TRC chairperson
… Anti-apartheid activist and Nobel laureate Archbishop Mpilo … took place and the rand plunged. At the end of apartheid, Tutu was appointed head of the Truth…
Art lost in a time of struggle by Mary Corrigall
… to, the Medu Art Ensemble, played a role in the anti-apartheid struggle movement, which means that this exhibition … drawings are poignant evocations of the…
ArticleBlack Consciousness and 16 June – The birth of a new generation
… instilled in the youth obviously agitated the Apartheid regime. The process leading up to the Soweto … themselves to the forefront of militant opposition to…
Interview with Africa Report by Oliver Tambo, 01 March 1981, New York
… killed? Why are you responding to the violence of apartheid with isolated half measures? TAMBO : There is a misleading appearance of apartheid that is…
EventThe Motsuenyane Commission finds the African National Congress (ANC) guilty of abuse in its camps
… Human rights abuses were common in South Africa during the apartheid era and the liberation struggle was aimed at bringing these abuses to an end. When…
EventThe United Democratic Front (UDF) is dissolved
… in August 1983, and was one of the most prominent anti-apartheid movements, comprising of over 400 workers', church, … National Congress (ANC) to strengthen…
Statement by Oliver Tambo at lunch hosted by the Foreign Minister of Venezuela, 13 July 1987, Caracas
… reform, and set in process a nationwide campaign to make apartheid unworkable. Many of the institutions used by the regime to administer apartheid have been…
Reflections on the 1973 Durban strikes by Steven Freedman
… working people and played an important role in defeating apartheid. First, the strikes triggered the formation of … Afrikaans instruction as the beginning of…
African National Congress Press Statement by O. R. Tambo, 5 November 1979
… the people to defeat the tyrannical measures which the apartheid regime imposes on us daily. More than at any other … such an outstanding feature in the…
Archive1997 - President Mandela, State of the Nation Address, 7 February 1997
… mainstream. We are confident that the new labour relations legislation, so painstakingly set in motion during the course … to attract investments, to deal…
Canon Collins Memorial Lecture by Oliver Tambo, 28 May 1987, London
… a dependable ally in the struggle to abolish the system of apartheid. Yet, such was the durability of his good works … as it then was, but more, to…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 2011 - 2020
… The key question in this case was whether the national legislation that created the Directorate for Priority Crime … It reveals that between the first and…
Forward to Mass Action for People's Power! Message of the National Executive Committee of the ANC on the 77th Anniversary of the ANC by O. R. Tambo, 8 January 1989
… Whatever its capacity for repression and death, the apartheid regime continued to suffer reverses both within … regime. The contingent of world forces…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 77th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1989
… Whatever its capacity for repression and death, the apartheid regime continued to suffer reverses both within … regime. The contingent of world forces…
ArchiveA critical look at the role of the Muslim Judicial Council in the struggle for liberation in South Africa from 1960 to 1994
… the Muslim Judicial Council (MJC) in the struggle against apartheid in South Africa. It will firstly place the study in … A section on the MJC's involvement…
EventArchbishop Owen Cardinal McCann becomes South Africa’s first cardinal.
… Church Archbishop of Cape Town, Owen McCann, an enemy of Apartheid, became South Africa's first Cardinal when he was … South African Catholic Church began…
EventOAU Council of Ministers decide to reject dialogue with South Africa
… rejected. This was due to the fact that they believed the apartheid regime of South Africa was attempting to "divide … ostracized by the international…
EventSA judge jails former state assassin Eugene de Kock for more than 200 years
… During the Apartheid regime, Eugene de Kock was a colonel in the South … functioned as a para-military squad, either executing anti-apartheid activists or…
EventFreedom Day is celebrated in South Africa
… long period of colonialism and White minority domination (apartheid). Apartheid 'officially' began in South Africa in 1948, but … a stalemate between the…
Speech by Oliver Tambo at a press conference in London, 21 March 1984
… been killings, pursued in the interests of preserving the apartheid system, nothing on that scale had occurred since the accession to power of the apartheid…
ArticleDebating Stellenbosch University’s Language Policy
… the National Party to oppress black South Africans during Apartheid. This article will not only discuss the … as a “White man’s language”, as it was promoted…
Address by Oliver Tambo at the 75th anniversary meeting of the African National Congress, 08 January 1987, Lusaka
… to this very hour, Today, as the struggle against the apartheid system grows more intense, more extensive and more … is how soon and at what cost we shall…
Address by Oliver Tambo at the 75th anniversary meeting of the African National Congress, Lusaka, 8 January 1987
… to this very hour, Today, as the struggle against the apartheid system grows more intense, more extensive and more … is how soon and at what cost we shall…
EventPretoria is proposed as the new capital of ZAR
… in 1961. It remains the administrative capital of post apartheid South Africa. Post- apartheid Pretoria turned a new leaf and became a centre for … City that…
EventWell-known political activist and academic, Dr. Neville Alexander is born
… the adoption of guerilla warfare in the struggle against apartheid. In 1962, after the YCCC was disbanded, he founded … South Africans for the common goal of…
EventThe first regional committee of the UDF is established in Natal
… Anti-apartheid organisations united under the umbrella of the … of P.W. Botha, and to demand the complete dismantling of apartheid rule and a non-racial and…
EventMinister of Defence, P.W. Botha, reports to the Senate on the Arms Industry and defines the main aims of South Africa’s defence policy.
… Africa's defence policy. The paranoia that afflicted the Apartheid State regarding a potential uprising by Black South … from this report. Unfortunately,…
EventUN passes resolutions on South Africa
… the legitimacy of the region's struggle against apartheid and the legitimacy of armed resistance. The UN … The UN General Assembly also called for the…
Foreword
… mark the fortieth anniversary of the founding of the Anti-Apartheid Movement. They sparked a lively discussion about … who worked both in the British and…