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EventState of Emergency follows Sharpeville massacre
… The government proceeded with the introduction of apartheid laws in the 1950s. An example of this was the hated … Click here to read United Nations documents…
Africa and Freedom, 1961
… in South Africa There is nothing new in South Africa's apartheid ideas, but South Africa is unique in this: the … but are stubbornly defended, extended and…
Letter by Oliver Tambo to the OAU Secretary-General, Mr. William Eteki Mboumoua, 01 June 1974
… the question of the destruction of the criminal system of apartheid in South Africa and the liberation of our oppressed … the world, who are threatened by…
Letter to the OAU Secretary-General, Mr. William Eteki Mboumoua by O. R. Tambo, 1974
… the question of the destruction of the criminal system of apartheid in South Africa and the liberation of our oppressed … the world, who are threatened by…
Opening Address to the ANC National Consultative Conference by O. R. Tambo, Johannesburg, 14 December 1990
… an all-round offensive which has finally brought the apartheid system to the brink of defeat. As a result, the … in the townships and elsewhere are a painful…
PlaceStatue of President Paul Kruger, Pretoria
… between Plein and Pretorius Streets. Following the end of Apartheid in South Africa, there had been calls for the … from its location due to it being viewed…
Opening address by Albert Luthuli to Conference on Unemployment, Low Wages and Poverty, 21 October 1961, Durban
… One cannot exhaust nor adequately portray the ugliness of apartheid ills. Much could and should be said by the Conference on destructive apartheid policies…
150th Anniversary; Anxieties of Commemoration - Towards a National Dialogue by Omar Badsha and Jon Soske
… a heroic narrative of 'Indian contributions' to the anti-apartheid struggle and nation building. Concerned with the … sidestepping an open discussion on race…
EventVaal Uprising Begins as Sharpeville Residents Resist Rent Increases
… Council. The Black Local Authorities, established by the Apartheid government to administer townships, were widely … who were seen by residents as…
Archive2017 - President Zuma, State of the Nation Address, 9 February 2017
… United Nations in 1963, appealing for action against the apartheid regime. We extend a warm welcome to her … levers that are available to the state. This…
Statement at the Ninth Extraordinary Session of the Council of Ministers of the Organisation of African Unity, Dar Es Salaam by O. R. Tambo, 7 – 10 April 1975
… facing Africa today. For the continued existence of the apartheid regime constitutes the principal obstacle to the … a common understanding of what the true…
Address by President Nelson Mandela of South Africa to the 49th session of the General Assembly New York, 3 October 1994
… will mark its 50th anniversary next year with the apartheid system having been vanquished and consigned to the … in which the UN engaged to ensure the…
Letter to Farzanah
… daily challenge of living with dignity and integrity in Apartheid South Africa, caused the Apartheid government to ban the book within a year of it …
EventDe Kock is convicted of six killings
… de Kock (dubbed 'Prime Evil') of six murders of Black anti-apartheid activists during his service as commander of a … by himself and his unit against the ANC…
EventFormer South African Prime Minister, P.W Botha, dies
… subpoena in 1998. The TRC was set up in 1996 to probe the Apartheid atrocities. Botha was implicated in human rights … the bombing of Khotso House, the…
EventEugene Terre Blanche, controversial leader of the AWB ( Afrikaner Resistance Movement), is born in Ventersdorp.
… before it became public. Terre'Blanche viewed the end of Apartheid in 1990 as the beginning of communism and … F.W. de Klerk with civil war. Following the…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 69th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1981
… and the destruction of the evil and degrading system of apartheid. This time last year we said that victory was … to find and implement ways of reducing…
Side By Side: The Autobiography of Helen Joseph
… most well-known South African women to campaign against apartheid. Her autobiography is being published on her 81st … the harsh laws, brutal repression and…
EventThomas Titus Nkobi is born
… to galvanize international public opinion against the apartheid government serving as the ANC's Chief … became the Treasurer General in 1977. After the fall…
ArticleRand Rebellion 1922
… skilled work was done by white men had been reinforced by legislation when Chinese labourers were introduced under the …
Grade 8 - Topic 2 - The Mineral Revolution in South Africa
… o Skilled and unskilled white workers o Anti-Indian legislation o Forms of labour resistance o The city of …
Remembering Nadine Gordimer (The Conversation), 15 July 2014
… in character, you would soon realise that the world of apartheid suffused every aspect of the personal. Gordimer, … published in 1979, focused on the…
Press Conference in Addis Ababal: Oliver Tambo, 02 July 1987
… that they hear what the ANC has, as an alternative to the apartheid system, and that it is firmly supported by the … people of South Africa as a whole as to…
Albie Sachs: From freedom fighter to justice on South Africa’s Constitutional Court by Morris Arvoy
… African security agents during the arduous fight to end apartheid. Sachs, 78, went on to help negotiate South Africa’s peaceful transition from the racist…
Support our People until Power is Restored to Them - Statement at the Plenary Meeting of the United Nations General Assembly by O. R. Tambo, New York, 26 October 1976
… victory will not come easily. In the last four months, the apartheid regime has demonstrated to all who were ever in … to massacre the innocent. Terror is…
The melody of freedom
… in hospital. Fear seems to reign among the defenders of apartheid. Fear of revolutionary songs, fear of South African … black South African musical identity…
ArchiveThe Black Consciousness Movement and Steve Biko By Jonathan Ansumana
… called South Africa. It is the year 1948. A law promoting Apartheid has just been passed. A majority of the country’s … for almost half a century. How does…
ArticleList of SADF raids into Neigbouring Countries
… A Crime Against Humanity: analysing the repression of the apartheid state , Johannesburg: Human Rights Committee …
The Black Homeland Citizenship Act of 1970
… During Apartheid, starting from the late 1950s the South African … Boddy-Evans, A ., Apartheid Era Laws: Bantu Homelands Citizenship Act No 26 of …
The National Anthem
… meetings. It was sung as an act of defiance during the apartheid years. The first stanza is generally sung in Xhosa …