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Polokwane the Segregated city
… City, 1910-1948 The Apartheid City A decade of Turbulence, 1976-86 Ructions within Afrikaner Politics Forced removals in … Smuts, and who had been Prime…
EventSA pledges support for a negotiated settlement in Rhodesia
… African government under leadership of Prime Minister John Vorster pledged support for the United States of America's … movements, especially after Portugal…
Sadecque Variava
… high school in Lenasia, travelling every day by train from Johannesburg to Lenasia. He began to become active by … the principal and the director of…
ArticleThe Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) 1995
… prisoners in the early 90s and the country’s transition from repressive rule to democracy in 1994, South Africa … and Reconciliation Act of 1995 and…
”Draft Declaration of Unity” [including 10-point Programme]. Statement Approved by the Continuation Committee of the Preliminary Unity Conference of Delegates from the AAC and the National Anti-C.A.D., December 17, 1943
… Committee of the Preliminary Unity Conference of Delegates from the AAC and the National Anti-C.A.D., December 17, 1943 …
Statement of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the Joint Sitting of Parliament on the Release of Hon Jacob Zuma from his Responsibilities as Deputy President: National Assembly, 14 June 2005.
… Sitting of Parliament on the Release of Hon Jacob Zuma from his Responsibilities as Deputy President: National …
Excerpts from discussions between a South African delegation led by Minister R F Botha and a United States delegation led by Deputy Secretary of State Frank Wisner on questions affecting southern Africa: Cape Town: 13 March 1986
… Excerpts from discussions between a South African delegation led by …
Chapter 3 - Historical Lesotho
… From the book: Le Rona Re Batho (An account of the 1982 … was one of the first Black African leaders to sup with Vorster, South Africa's then Prime Minister…
ArticleThe Langa March, 30 March 1960
… Congress (PAC) march of between 30.000-50.000 protestors from Langa and Nyanga to the police headquarters in Caledon … agreed to disperse the protestors in…
ArticlePeople and Culture of South Africa
… (today's Sotho/Basuto, Tswana, and Pedi) migrated down from east Africa as early as the eleventh century … when the colonists were beginning their migrations…
EventElize Botha dies
… Commission (TRC) Chairman Archbishop Desmond Tutu, attended the funeral in the Wilderness. References: … SAPA, EX-DEFENCE FORCE CHIEFS, EX-MINISTERS AND TUTU…
ArticleChieftaincy and Kingship in South Africa
… This system is patriarchal, has largely excluded women from the office, and supports customary laws that are … marriage or clientelism, they derived their…
EventConnie Mulder resigns as a result of his involvement in plot to sell apartheid propaganda
… Mulder, with the knowledge of then Prime Minister, B.J. Vorster , in a plot to sell apartheid propaganda with the use … resources. In 1973 Vorster had agreed…
’We are of the world and the world is with us’, Address by Oliver Tambo on receiving the Degree of Doctor of Laws Honoris Causa from the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 9 May 1986
… on receiving the Degree of Doctor of Laws Honoris Causa from the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 9 May 1986 …
ArchiveExcerpts from meeting between a South African delegation led by Minister R F Botha and a United States delegation led by Mr Robert MacFarlane, National Security Advisor, on queries affecting South West Africa and Angola: Vienna, 8 August 1985
… Excerpts from meeting between a South African delegation led by …
ArticleList of people banned under Apartheid
… Eric Antony Act No. 44 of 1950 Section 9 (1) 29 Nov. 1976 30/11/1981 Wynberg UCT graduate who had worked as a … Cape Town. His banning order specifically…
ArticleBlack Consciousness and 16 June – The birth of a new generation
… saw Afrikaans as a means of suppression...suppressing them from advancing educationally.” It was due to these problems that, at the end of May 1976, student…
ArticleThe banning of the South African Students Organisation (SASO) and student politics in the 1980s
… nationwide student unrest that broke out in Soweto in June 1976. Recognising that secondary schools and universities … political mobilisation. Soweto, the…
New tactics in the revolt
… which kept at least 60 per cent of the labour force away from work, the SSRC was forced on to the defensive. There … during the months to come, but was…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1960s
… College of Fort Hare.African students are prohibited from attending formerly "open universities" except the … Bill’ – sponsored by the Minister of Justice, B…
ArticleRivonia Trial 1963 - 1964
… and (4) soliciting and receiving money for these purposes from sympathisers in Algeria, Ethiopia, Liberia, Nigeria, … Durban strikes of 1973 and later the…
Biography of George Hallett by Hunter Kolon
… fishing village outside of Cape Town where the influences from his teachers and friends opened up the world of artistic … to Cape Town to spend a week with…
EventDr. Connie Mulder is acquitted and discharged on charges of contempt
… become the Prime Minister of South Africa following B.J. Vorster's term of office. In 1977, however, Mulder was … It was revealed that Mulder, along with…
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Introduction
… From the book: Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid … insights into what led to the major revolt in Soweto in 1976 ”” an uprising of students that inspired…
ArchivePik Botha: sympathetic obits fail to recognise that he protected apartheid by Alet Pretorius, 23 October 2018
… “Pik” Botha, South Africa’s apartheid era foreign minister from 1977 to 1994, has produced a range of appraisals of his … Hendrik Verwoerd. He also didn’t…
PUBLIC RESPONSE TO SAHO WEBSITE
… about our website. We have received numerous responses from the public, good and bad. A selection are reprinted … headquarters - called the Greys Building -…
Dealing with the past and facing the future
… - Source: Sunday Independent, December 6, 1998. A scene from a Nuremberg trial. Source: pbs.org For a great website … for ubuntu but not for victimisation.”…
ArticleBureau of State Security (BOSS)
… Agencies is somewhat hamstrung by the fact that people from these agencies do not want their stories to be told. The … was only legally institutionalised on…
Dance For All (DFA)
… being done, these include: Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu in 2003, Dr Mamphela Ramphele and John Persenda in 2007. … DFA held annual fundraising events at…
ArchiveI Write What I Like: Selected Writings
… Movement. The collection brings together Biko's writings from 1969, the year he assumed the presidency of the South … orders imposed by the apartheid…