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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Chapter 3 - Gumede’s role in NNC and SANNC Politics, 1909 – 1919 ‘We pray that the people be allowed to live in peace in their own land’.
… Act of 1917. What were Gumede's views with regard to this legislation and how did he stand up to British betrayal and … in a political position where they…
ArchiveCHAPTER FIVE: The Politics Of Collaboration: The Campaign for Participation In The Tricameral Parliament by Kumi Naidoo
This chapter comes from the book
THE POLITICS OF COLLABORATION: THE CAMPAIGN FOR PARTICIPATION IN THE TRICAMERAL PARLIAMENT
… was equally an index of the crisis. One survey found that apartheid practices (28.8%), the economic situation (26.5%) … of urbanisation, forced removals and…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Interview with Albert Luthuli by Studs Terkel, 6 May 1963, Chicago
… bills which really did make drastic changes in African legislation. Then in 1935, the Natives Land and Trust Act was … cannot live in the white city is…
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…
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…