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January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 67th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1979
… has organised and mobilised over the years, the racist Vorster/Botha regime stands isolated in the international … country, who have stayed in the field of…
ArticleNobel Prizes and South African Laureates
… received the Nobel Peace Prize. 1984 - Bishop Desmond Tutu received the Nobel Peace prize 1993 - FW de Klerk and … For his work against apartheid... read…
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…
Move from Condemnation to Confrontation of Apartheid and Colonialism - Statement in Committee II of the International Conference of Experts for the Support of Victims of Colonialism and Apartheid in Southern Africa, Oslo by O. R. Tambo, 11 April 1973
… colonialism, we should press for a shift in emphasis from what has been world condemnation of these systems to … to the question we would like to urge is a…
ArticleSouth African Students Movement (SASM)
… as a medium of instruction, which resulted in the June 1976 uprising . The significance of the June 16 Uprising is … the role of SASM in launching the…
ArticleResponse to the June 16 Soweto Youth Uprising by organisations in exile
… massacre of school children during the Soweto Uprising of 1976. The response of the organisations in exile can be … oppressor. It was against this background…
ArticleBlack Consciousness Movement Timeline 1903-2009
… 1959 6 April, Robert Sobukwe and others break away from the African National Congress (ANC) to form the Pan … and the book-length Black Review (published…
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…
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…
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…
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…
’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 …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…