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ArchiveHugh Lewin, 1939–2019, RIP by Jennifer Malec, 17 January 2019
… Journalist, author and anti-apartheid activist Hugh Lewin has died, aged seventy-nine. … that executed acts of ‘protest sabotage’ against the apartheid state…
ArticleGrade 5 - Term 4: A Heritage trail through the provinces of South Africa
… or ‘Mabaard’, to those who knew her well, was an anti-apartheid activist who fought to defend human rights by protesting against the unfairness of apartheid…
ArticleDecember 16 and the Construction of Afrikaner Nationalism
… as a social group and a ‘race’, which led to the apartheid regime. The article briefly traces the key events … dark masses gathering around your isolated…
ArticleDefiance Campaign timeline 1948-1952
… Party (NP) wins election and immediately introduces apartheid (separateness) measures against Blacks, Indian … disobedience. Some 8 000 Blacks are arrested…
ArticleAzanian People’s Organization (AZAPO)
… government. AZAPO saw the capitalist system rather than apartheid as the main oppressing force in South Africa and … established to carry disinformation and…
ArticleBlack Consciousness and student revolt in the Cape
… The Black Consciousness Movement (BCM) defiantly rejected apartheid and found resonance among black workers and the … and the addition Afrikaans fueled the…
ArchiveOpening Address at the Omar Badsha Photographic exhibition by Jakes Gerwel, September 2001
… the racial maze created over a century of colonialism, apartheid and what he calls his own "Indianness". People and … identities, in South Africa. The racial…
PlaceTokai Arboretum, Tokai Forest
… here. It was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 9 August 1985. The Tree hugging Hike of the …
PlaceSt Louis Catholic Church, 22 Jacobs Road, Clairwood, Durban
… Delalle. It was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 10 February 1989. This once vibrant, now small …
Archive2002 - President Mbeki, State of the Nation Address, 8 February 2002
… of a centuries-old legacy of colonialism, of racism and apartheid. This I will also say, that the overwhelming … that, as we were our own liberators in…
4. The ANC underground between Rivonia and 1976
… – which may be accounted for in part by restrictive legislation – but what coverage did occur was extremely … Natal, among them Griffiths Mxenge (later…
Archive2010 - President Zuma, Response to the State of the Nation Address, 16 February 2010
… effectively, as outlined in the relevant public service legislation and regulations. Honourable Speaker, we noted the … President PW Botha, Kobie Coetzee and…
Remembering the enslaved in Cape Town by Sam North
… than this. Slavery is a history which until the fall of apartheid in 1994 remained largely forgotten in public … to remote and dangerous racially-exclusive…
ArchiveThe Legacy Of The Jazz Epistles, South Africa's Short-Lived But Historic Group by Simon Rentner, 27 April 2017
… one session together before the country's brutally racist apartheid government forced them into exile. One recording … nationalists in power were in the…
EventMurder trial of “Sharpeville Six” opens
… against reputed corrupt councillors and the unjust apartheid system was not taken into consideration during the … a meeting of the United Nations Special…
ArticleA timeline of Zuma-Gupta issues from Nenegate to the firing of Pravin Gordhan
… Spider Web" makes the claim that in the dying days of apartheid, the national intelligence and the white … Donaldson, who it claims was a strategic planner…
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1940-1949
… foodstuffs to non-European soldiers, abolition of racial legislation and the extension of free and adequate medical … and whites went to prison in opposition…
Message by Oliver Tambo to Frelimo Central Committee on the death of Samora Machel, 22 October 1986
… by the only enemy who stands to gain by his death, the apartheid regime of Pretoria and its agents. President Machel … and by nationals of countries in the…
Message to Frelimo Central Committee on the Death of Samora Machel by O. R. Tambo, 22 October 1986
… by the only enemy who stands to gain by his death, the apartheid regime of Pretoria and its agents. President … and by nationals of countries in the…
EventSteven Biko is arrested.
… was focused on the resistance against and liberation from apartheid. In 1973 he was banned by apartheid government. Under the ban, he was restricted to his …
EventUmkhonto We Sizwe, military wing of the ANC, claims responsibility for power station blast
… South African Communist Party (SACP) to fight against the apartheid government by means of guerilla attacks. MK was … MK was classified as a terrorist…
EventMK hero cadre Solomon Kalushi (Khala) Mahlangu is executed
… Solomon Kalushi (Khala) Mahlangu was executed by the Apartheid regime for being part of an abortive attempt by … South Africa, determined to assist in the…
EventFree, compulsory education for Black children
… of a strategy that would undermine the struggle against apartheid by creating disunity. This strategy was created by … State, and Educational Reform, in…
EventThe first museum is opened in Soweto, and is named after Hector Pieterson, one of the first casualties of the 16 June 1976 Soweto uprising.
… history and heritage of the struggle for freedom against Apartheid. It has become a popular destination for tourists, … a vibrant city which still openly…
EventThe Trojan Horse Massacre
… Sinton High School became a gathering place for anti-apartheid protests, particularly by students. On 15 October … crush a gathering of youth who were…
PlaceKwaMuhle Museum, 130 Ordnance Road, Durban
… to the people of Durban. KwaMuhle is in no sense an apartheid museum. Nor is it an African History Museum. It is … the inaccuracies in the historical record…
South Africa’s Radical Tradition, a documentary history, VolumeTwo 1943 - 1964, by Allison Drew - Bibliographical note and further reading
… Luli (1993), A Place in the City: The Rand on the eve of Apartheid, Braamfontein: Ravan and Cape Town: Maskew Miller … Ellis, Stephen and Tsepo Sechaba (1992…
PlaceAthlone - or Cape Flats, Cape Town
… enveloped vast tracts of land in short order. During the apartheid era, large housing projects were built here, mostly … and raised in the Cape Town area…
Message by Oliver Tambo of the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress on the 71st anniversary of ANC, 08 January 1983
… can neither defuse nor halt. Within the confines of the apartheid system there is no way out of this crisis … of the revolutionary forces, the dismantling of…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 71th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1983
… can neither defuse nor halt. Within the confines of the apartheid system there is no way out of this crisis … of the revolutionary forces, the dismantling of…