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Remember Soweto 16 June 1976
… experiences of a key turning point in the struggle against apartheid. It would be much appreciated if the invitation …
Place'Aardoringspruit', Brandfort in the Free State Province
… Home to former prime-minister H.F. Verwoerd. During the Apartheid era, Winnie Mandela was banished to Brandfort and … Where the First Aeroplane in Africa Was…
EventCricketer Omar Henry born
… was labelled “unofficial” due to the political position of Apartheid South Africa, and the international sporting …
ArchiveAfrica South Vol.3 No.1 Oct-Dec 1958
… de Crespigny. The Village and the Castle, Owen Williams. Apartheid in Nursing-a Challenge, an African Nurse and Fr. …
EventPrime Minister opens SA's first atomic reactor
… The former Prime Minister of South Africa and apartheid mastermind, Dr H.F. Verwoerd opened South Africa's …
EventCurnick Ndlovu, Trade Unionist, is arrested.
… in exposing agents sent by the government to disrupt anti-apartheid activities in the trade union movement and this led …
EventSA Prime Minister sends a goodwill message to the new government of Mozambique
… Mozambique.This was the first open act of war by the apartheid government against Mozambique. Three years later …
EventTwo actors, Athol Fugard and Zakes Mokae arrive in Cape Town to stage a play on the ‘Colour-bar’
… Blood Knot" which led to his passport being withdrawn by Apartheid government. …
EventANC launches mass boycott of Bantu Education
… to the administration of education for blacks under the Apartheid system of racial discrimination. High standards of …
EventP.W. Botha and Kenneth Kaunda in a historic meeting
… the African press for meeting with representatives of the Apartheid regime. Sources …
EventRight wing Wit Kommando bombs academic’s office
… foreign White expatriates opposed to any relaxing of apartheid principles, claimed responsibility for the bomb …
EventJournalists’ first visit to Robben Island
… north east of Cape Town, political prisoners of the anti-apartheid movement were kept together with hardened …
EventLucas Mangope, Bophuthatswana homeland leader is deposed
… ploy failed to change the view of Bophuthatswana as an Apartheid sham state. In March 1994, rioting broke out in …
EventSA signs diplomatic relations with Vietnam
… With the processes of the dismantling of the apartheid system and preparations for democratic rule under …
EventFourteen are killed in Phola Park violence
… A Crime Against Humanity: analysing the repression of the apartheid state, Johannesburg: Human Rights Committee, p. 266. …
EventHarms releases his report
… to shed light on who is responsible for the death of anti-apartheid activists David Webster and Anton Lubowski in May …
EventAdelaide Tambo returns to South Africa after 30 years
… for her exceptional commitment to the struggle against apartheid, and her dedication to community service and nation …
EventMayor of Welkom, in the Free State, is tarred and feathered
… Race relations during the decline of the Apartheid regime were particularly problematic as many Whites …
EventKhotso House is bombed
… based in Johannesburg, was bombed for harbouring anti-apartheid groups a year after a blast at Congress of South … timelines,' apartheid groups ' ,[online]…
EventCarte Blanche is denied permission to quote Oliver Tambo
… American publications, was indicative of the pressure the apartheid government was feeling in 1987. Events in 1988, …
EventSchools closed in the Western Cape
… in many parts of the country in protest against the apartheid system. The major grievance of the students was the …
EventNelson Mandela is voted the greatest South African
… in this list, such as Hendrik Verwoerd, the architect of apartheid and Steve Hofmeyr, receiving more support than …
EventThe Sunday Times political journalist is suspended
… Press alleged that Ngcuka could have been an agent for the Apartheid government. Munusamy resigned before disciplinary …
EventOrganisations forward applicants for amnesty to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission
… court-like body assembled in South Africa after the end of Apartheid. Anybody who felt they had been a victim of …
EventPW Botha refuses to testify before the TRC
… (TRC). He also stated that he would never apologise for apartheid and he called the TRC "the fierce unforgiving …
EventUniversity of Pretoria is established
… on 13 September 1932. Since 1994 and the end of apartheid considerable transformation has taken place. The …
EventTransvaal Anti-SAIC Committee decided to revive the old TIC
… Churches, said; “We cannot accept a ‘new deal’ which makes apartheid work even better. We cannot accept a future for our …
Dawn
… the necessity for a broad front of attack on the apartheid government. Calls were made for participation and …
EventANC stalwart, Albertina Sisulu dies in Johannesburg
… was a nurse and one of the most important leaders of anti-Apartheid resistance in South Africa. It was with Walter that …
EventEllen Kuzwayo becomes the first Black woman to receive an honorary degree from Wits University
… work. As a social worker she led a campaign to force the Apartheid government to introduce a form of land ownership … Ellen Kuzwayo,Tireless campaigner for…