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Grade 4 term 2 Timeline: Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela
… He says that the government must first put an end to apartheid 1988 He is admitted to Tygerberg Hospital where he …
EventANC receives letter of gratitude from the British Prime Minister, Herold Macmillan
… ANC for giving him the organisation's views on Nationalist apartheid policies. The recipient of the letter was Duma … receive ANC delegation to talk about…
EventUDF leaders are charged with treason
… and Billy Nair were charged with high treason. These anti-apartheid activists sought refuge in the British consulate in … consulate. On leaving the consulate…
EventThe National President of the Black People’s Convention, Kenneth Hlaku Rachidi, declares that riots have lead to a new era of political consciousness
… with Youth Day, was the result of increasing opposition to apartheid amongst the black youth of South Africa. In particular, students were protesting against…
EventF.W. de Klerk announces Nelson Mandela will be freed on 11 February
… the next day, took many people by surprise. The Apartheid government attempted to negotiate the release of … to a civil war. This state, among others,…
EventThe “Sharpeville Six” narrowly escape executions
… general protest against corrupt councillors and the unjust apartheid system. Three months after the incident the … when negotiations between liberation…
PlaceRugby Museum, V & A Waterfront, Cape Town
… skills in kicking, passing and more. From 1984, during apartheid, South Africa was banned from taking part in international rugby competition. When apartheid…
EventState of emergency declared after Sharpeville Massacre
… the first such declaration of a State of Emergency by the Apartheid state. During these periods, the government had … means of passive resistance were…
ArchiveThe Mandela I knew by Saths Cooper, 6 December 2013
… by a phalanx of white racist power and privilege that was apartheid and that our unity as blacks in opposition to apartheid was paramount. In our first…
PlaceRainbow Restaurant and Jazz Club, Durban
… a full liquor license in 1983. In those dark days of Apartheid, the Rainbow played an important role in the … musicians, who remained in South Africa during…
David Goldblatt, TJ, 1948-2010 - review by Claire Guillot, 25 January 2011
… guard at the entrance make no difference. Since the end of apartheid in the 1990s no one has been spared by the … a fragmented place," he explains. With good…
Speech at the Final Conference of International Defence and Aid Fund for Southern Africa by O . R. Tambo, London, 24 May 1991
… volunteers who were charged for defying the unjust laws of apartheid. This work mushroomed with the establishment of the … sought to convict us of treason…
ANC Youth League Manifesto 1944
… should be secure and unassailable. A hurried glance at legislation passed by the Trustees for the African during the … last century and now containing such…
Address delivered by Nelson Mandela, Deputy President of the African National Congress to the graduation ceremony at MEDUNSA 23 March 1991
… there are few people who do not recognise the crisis of apartheid and the apartheid education systems. While there is widespread recognition that apartheid…
Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom - Chapter 4 - The Fruits of Freedom by Eddy Maloka
… example of an inspiring transition from the oppression of apartheid to the freedom of democracy. The transition, … Capitalism and Conflict) and then, from…
The Story of PR Pather, the grand old man of Indian politics in South Africa: Chapter One - By Riashnee Pather
… resulted in an increase in Anti-Indian measures and legislation. According to Surendra Bhana the new government began introducing legislation regarding…
Document 2 - Against the C.A.D. for Full Democratic Rights [1943]
… and have always fought against any political move or legislation which wanted to treat us as "special" creatures … implies the abolition of all…
A.I. Kajee His Work for the Southern African Indian Community - Chapter 11
… Minister introduced in 1946 a new comprehensive bill. This legislation enjoys the full title of "The Asiatic Land Tenure … South African Indian community…
PlaceMarket Theatre
… didn’t receive state funding until after the demise of the apartheid regime in the 1990’s. Due to the fact that the … ‘voice to the voiceless’ in confronting…
EventIt is widely reported that British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher criticised the ANC, calling it a terrorist organisation
… cement her reputation as a supporter of South Africa's Apartheid regime. Throughout the summit Thatcher stood alone … western nations in their official…
EventMore than a dozen people are killed, including seven children, in Kwamakhutha Massacre
… (ANC), Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) and covert elements in apartheid government structures playing leading roles. The … one of a number of actions that had…
Address to CODESA by comrade Nelson R. Mandela, President of the ANC 20 December 1991
… today will mark the commencement of the transition from apartheid to democracy. Our people, from every corner of our … will set our country on the road to…
The Segregation Fallacy and Other Papers - Some Aspects of the Native Bills
… in Parliament Bill constitutes the crux of the proposed legislation, because the vole is our Victorian heritage, not … policy is to displace that of the Cape…
EventKader Asmal, political activist and future Member of Parliament, is born
… in Stanger, Natal (now Kwa-Dukuza). His resistance against apartheid began in 1952 when he organized a school boycott in … exile based in Ireland, where he…
EventDr. Connie Mulder is acquitted and discharged on charges of contempt
… had planned to use defence force funds to stage an apartheid propaganda campaign. This plan included offering … the only English newspaper supportive of the…
EventSADF mounts raids on ANC targets in neighbouring states
… (1986). Following the banning of the ANC and other anti-apartheid organisations in 1960 and increasing terror from the Apartheid security forces, these…
EventAlan Paton is born
… came to power in the Union of South Africa and instituted apartheid. The publication of Cry, the Beloved Country, which … contributed. In 1953 he formed…
EventBophuthatswana is granted independence by the South African government
… that the end for the homeland government and their apartheid overlords was imminent. A group of Afrikaner … of the ANC or any of the political formations…
Statement on Human Rights Year by Oliver Tambo, 01 June 1968
… Human Rights as part of its avowed policy. Twenty Years of Apartheid 1968 sees the end of two decades of apartheid in South Africa. The Nazi ideology which…
ArchiveMandela, From a Freedom Fighter to an Icon of Reconciliation
… could no longer strictly adhere to nonviolence as the apartheid government had closed all avenues for legal or … 1961 with a series of acts of sabotage…