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Remembering the enslaved in Cape Town by Sam North
… than this. Slavery is a history which until the fall of apartheid in 1994 remained largely forgotten in public … to remote and dangerous racially-exclusive…
ArchiveThe Legacy Of The Jazz Epistles, South Africa's Short-Lived But Historic Group by Simon Rentner, 27 April 2017
… one session together before the country's brutally racist apartheid government forced them into exile. One recording … nationalists in power were in the…
EventMurder trial of “Sharpeville Six” opens
… against reputed corrupt councillors and the unjust apartheid system was not taken into consideration during the … a meeting of the United Nations Special…
Message by Oliver Tambo to Frelimo Central Committee on the death of Samora Machel, 22 October 1986
… by the only enemy who stands to gain by his death, the apartheid regime of Pretoria and its agents. President Machel … and by nationals of countries in the…
Message to Frelimo Central Committee on the Death of Samora Machel by O. R. Tambo, 22 October 1986
… by the only enemy who stands to gain by his death, the apartheid regime of Pretoria and its agents. President … and by nationals of countries in the…
EventSteven Biko is arrested.
… was focused on the resistance against and liberation from apartheid. In 1973 he was banned by apartheid government. Under the ban, he was restricted to his …
EventUmkhonto We Sizwe, military wing of the ANC, claims responsibility for power station blast
… South African Communist Party (SACP) to fight against the apartheid government by means of guerilla attacks. MK was … MK was classified as a terrorist…
EventMK hero cadre Solomon Kalushi (Khala) Mahlangu is executed
… Solomon Kalushi (Khala) Mahlangu was executed by the Apartheid regime for being part of an abortive attempt by … South Africa, determined to assist in the…
EventFree, compulsory education for Black children
… of a strategy that would undermine the struggle against apartheid by creating disunity. This strategy was created by … State, and Educational Reform, in…
EventThe first museum is opened in Soweto, and is named after Hector Pieterson, one of the first casualties of the 16 June 1976 Soweto uprising.
… history and heritage of the struggle for freedom against Apartheid. It has become a popular destination for tourists, … a vibrant city which still openly…
EventThe Trojan Horse Massacre
… Sinton High School became a gathering place for anti-apartheid protests, particularly by students. On 15 October … crush a gathering of youth who were…
PlaceKwaMuhle Museum, 130 Ordnance Road, Durban
… to the people of Durban. KwaMuhle is in no sense an apartheid museum. Nor is it an African History Museum. It is … the inaccuracies in the historical record…
South Africa’s Radical Tradition, a documentary history, VolumeTwo 1943 - 1964, by Allison Drew - Bibliographical note and further reading
… Luli (1993), A Place in the City: The Rand on the eve of Apartheid, Braamfontein: Ravan and Cape Town: Maskew Miller … Ellis, Stephen and Tsepo Sechaba (1992…
PlaceAthlone - or Cape Flats, Cape Town
… enveloped vast tracts of land in short order. During the apartheid era, large housing projects were built here, mostly … and raised in the Cape Town area…
Message by Oliver Tambo of the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress on the 71st anniversary of ANC, 08 January 1983
… can neither defuse nor halt. Within the confines of the apartheid system there is no way out of this crisis … of the revolutionary forces, the dismantling of…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 71th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1983
… can neither defuse nor halt. Within the confines of the apartheid system there is no way out of this crisis … of the revolutionary forces, the dismantling of…
Appeal for Action to stop Repression and Trial in South Africa: Statement at the Meeting of the Special Political Committee of the United Nations General Assembly by O. R. Tambo, New York, 8 October, 1963
… of the nations and peoples of the world to see the end of apartheid and white domination, and the emergence of a South … which have done and are even now…
Chapter 2 - The Soweto Uprising of June 1976: A Turning Points Event
… the external armed wings of the ANC and PAC to topple the apartheid regime. Letter from Bishop Desmond Tutu to Prime … police reactions sparked widespread…
ArticleStudent protests in democratic South Africa
… history of student protests going way back to the anti-Apartheid marches that predated South Africa’s democracy. …
ArticleObituary: Sheila Weinberg
… figures who had been jailed or exiled or killed by the apartheid regime. Sheila was one of the best known and most …
ArticlePolokwane/Pietersburg Timeline 1835-1995
… in South Africa to change its name after the fall of apartheid to Polokwane, meaning 'Place of Safety' in Sesotho. …
Submissions by the McGill University students 2014
… Legislation, Dissent, and Violence in Sophiatown under Apartheid Anna Hutchinson Anna Hutchinson is in her fourth …
ArticleTimeline of the History of Rugby in South Africa
… Rugby Board as a result of the nation's continuation of apartheid policies. 1988 Danie Craven and Louis Luyt of the …
PlaceGoodman Gallery
… the segregation defining exhibition practices under Apartheid law, in which Black artists and art viewers were … In 1983 the Association of Artists of the…
Olof Palme and the liberation of Southern Africa by Oliver Tambo, 01 March 1988
… Accustomed as we have become to the animal savagery of the apartheid system and therefore to swift and unnatural death, … Olof Palme consistently argued…
Evidence before the Foreign Affairs Committee of the house of commons: Oliver Tambo, 29 October 1985, London
… or not, are part of the overall struggle against apartheid and, if they are against the apartheid system, then we regard them as part of the … that period,…
ArchiveAhmed Timol and the return of The Light by Kevin Bloom (Daily Maverick), 28 October 2016
… As the twenty-second person to die in the custody of the apartheid state, the news of the so-called “suicide” had led … Thabo Mbeki’s cabinet had ordered him…
’I am not prepared to sell the birthright of the people to be free’
… also speaks for all those in jail for their opposition to apartheid, for all those who are banished, for all those who are in exile, for all those who suffer…
ArticleThe South African Communist Party and May Day – Some Key Moments
… of racist and unfair conditions in Hendrik Verwoerd ’s Apartheid South Africa; pass laws, police raids, low wages, … and the banning of political…
ArchiveSonia Bunting: Continuous Compassion and Adamant Activism by Jack Lucas
… demonstrates remarkable continuity in her unrelenting anti-apartheid pursuits, advocating for the same repressed … for half a century despite the consistent…