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EventMaria Mary Burton, former national president of the Black Sash, is born
… Africa in 1961, and upon witnessing the injustices of Apartheid, became a member of the Black Sash in 1965. Founded … to Burton's membership, the Black Sash…
EventMartin Luther King, Junior, is born
… led by the National Party under D.F. Malan was introducing Apartheid in 1948, King was graduating from Morehouse … from the elections of 1948 won by National…
EventJeannette Schoon and her daughter are killed by a letter bomb
… bomb at Lubango, in northern Angola on 28 June 1984. Anti-apartheid activist Marius Schoon (Jeannette's husband) was … of the bombing because of his prior…
EventPW Botha states that the Soviets will not prevent South Africa from attacking ANC bases in Mozambique
… of its neighbouring countries in order to prop up the Apartheid system, resulted in strong condemnation by … of its neighboring countries in order to prop up…
EventESCOM announces its decision to order two nuclear power reactors from France
… had to withdraw due to political pressure due to the Apartheid policies of the South African State. The Apartheid government claimed that they were…
EventChief Albert Luthuli, Nobel Peace Prize winner and former President of the ANC, is killed in Groutville
… close to the home that he had been confined to by the Apartheid regime in Groutville, (then) Stanger, … and defiance brought him into direct conflict with…
EventAt least 150 people die in clashes between the ANC and IFP
… two years in 1987. Most violent action was directed at the apartheid government, but soon spread between residents of … for the violence as it was later…
EventPolice break up demonstrations against South African rebel Cricket Tour
… of South Africa by the English Cricket team. Angry anti apartheid demonstrators including the African National … who went on the tour received financial…
EventBlacks boycott municipal elections
… of Black electorates followed the repeated call of anti-apartheid forces and largely boycotted the elections, with … as a manoeuvre to further entrench White…
EventPW Botha gives the “Rubicon” Speech in Durban
… to consider immediate and major reforms in the country's apartheid system. This meant the abolishing of the apartheid system. In a speech that had been…
PlaceQueens Fort Military Museum, Bloemfontein
… all major military conflicts from 1820, including the apartheid struggle. The Queen’s Fort Military Museum, in … War, World War I, World War II and the…
EventP.W. Botha, former South African State President, appears in court for refusing to testify at the TRC
… contained details of his involvement in the gruesome apartheid killings of black freedom fighters allegedly arranged by the apartheid regime. Botha was asked…
76. The Indian people are an integral and permanent part of South Africa
… from the exercise of which the Indian has been excluded by legislation. The latest threat of economic strangulation of … Group Areas Act of 1950. It is…
Introduction of A Crime Against Humanity
… A Crime Against Humanity - Analysing the Repression of the Apartheid State edited by Max Coleman This is a book about … specifically, it is a book about the…
ArchiveJakes Gerwel: The epitome of integrity and courage by Niren Tolsi, 30 November 2012
… transform the University of the Western Cape (UWC) from an apartheid "bush university" into the "intellectual home of … (an Afrikaner nationalist…
Speech by Oliver Tambo on behalf of the Liberation Movements, at the twenty-third session of the assembly of Heads of State and Government of the Organisation of African Unity, 27 July 1987, Addis Ababa
… that there can be no peace in southern Africa until the apartheid system is destroyed and uprooted in its entirety. … to be engaged precisely in this…
Appendix 1: Freedom Fighters On The March: A Message From Dr. Y. M. Dadoo To The Indian People
… Indian people Brothers and Sisters The struggle against apartheid and for Freedom has entered a newdecisive phase. … Coloured people, has hadenough of racial…
Document 29 - Kenneth Hendrickse, “The Opposition in Congress”, The Citizen 3, 3, 4 March 1958
… It is multi-racialism - a gratuitous concession apartheid - which is at the root of all other evils in … serves only one purpose: to conserve and entrench…
Address by President Nelson Mandela to Parliament National Assembly, Cape Town, 5 February 1999
… review. Ten years ago, in a letter to the Head of the Apartheid State, in an attempt to launch negotiations, one … the way to reconciliation is obviously the…
Archive1999 - President Mbeki, State of the Nation Address, 5 February 1999 (Before National Elections)
… review. Ten years ago, in a letter to the Head of the Apartheid State, in an attempt to launch negotiations, one … the way to reconciliation is obviously the…
Archive1994 - President Mandela, State Of the Nation Address, 24 May 1994 (After National Elections)
… we elaborate, the government institutions we create, the legislation we adopt must be whether they serve these … so that it is in line with international…
EventDue to insufficient evidence South African police are cleared of charges with regards to the death of Steve Biko
… Steve Biko, who died at the hands of apartheid security police on September 12, 1977, is widely seen as the greatest martyr of the anti-apartheid movement. …
SACTU press release in ‘New Age’, 22 November 1962
… arrested] people in their homes or flats he will make Apartheid workable and just? Does he think that the non-White … 'marked' by a member of the Special…
EventLanga, Uitenhage Massacre: 20 killed by police on Sharpeville Commemoration Day
… the massacre is not as widely remembered today as other apartheid atrocities, such as those at Sharpeville and … the country. By July the tensions had grown…
EventThe South African Government passes the Group Areas Act
… Apartheid as a system was obsessed with separating the … South Africans lived side by side. On 27 April 1950, the Apartheid government passed the Group…
EventGriffiths Mxenge is murdered
… Mxenge , an African National Congress (ANC) veteran and apartheid activist, was assassinated and his body was … David Tshikalanga. All were policemen and…
EventSADF takes over security of Northern Natal from the SAP to prevent infiltration into SA by Liberation Movements
… state of security that marked the eighties convinced the Apartheid government that a revision of its approach to … a policing capacity was however not a new…
EventDaily Dispatch editor, Donald Woods, arrives in Britain with his family
… and Botswana. Woods was prosecuted seven times under the apartheid government's publication laws and sentenced to jail … he wrote eight books and campaigned…
EventFour ANC members killed in an ambush near Piet Retief, eastern Transvaal
… the Swaziland border into South Africa. The four anti –Apartheid activists believed they were about to come back to … In connection to the incident Eugene de…
EventBlacks in South Africa protest against segregation
… campaign that protested against the unjust laws of the apartheid regime. The campaign of defiance against unjust … 26 June and took the form of large-scale…