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EventFour South Africans and a British national charged with illegally exporting military equipment to South Africa
… in terms of its arms manufacturing capability, the Apartheid regime relied heavily on imported components for …
Event11 die when the South African Defence Force (SADF) opens fire on negotiators in Sebokeng
… Pretoria talks, which discussed the removal of repressive apartheid measures, and the creation of a free political … A Crime Against Humanity: analysing the…
EventGen. Jannie Geldenhuys announces that CCB will be disbanded
… allegedly involved in hit-squad operations against anti-apartheid activists. De Klerk said in March 1990 that he had …
EventP. W. Botha refutes possibility of Black majority rule
… country. Only now that the stark reality has dawned that apartheid has failed, and that Blacks will one day have an …
EventANC stalwart and Rivonia Trialist, Govan Mbeki, is released from Robben Island Prison
… a call for all political prisoners to be freed, as apartheid was dying. Upon his release the government …
EventSimon van der Stel, commander and governor of the Cape, is born
… race-origin, a fact that was largely unacknowledged by the Apartheid government. …
EventAWB leader, Eugene TerreBlanche, is convicted of attempted murder and assault
… the negotiations between the Liberation Movements and the Apartheid government regarding the transfer of power and …
EventPolice head admits to Khotso House bombing
… a press statement; “At last we have been vindicated. The apartheid regime, at its highest levels, ordered the bombing …
EventTerror strikes the Olympics Games in Atlanta
… banned from participating in the Games due its policy of apartheid. References: 1996 Summer Olympics [online] …
EventA few days after deciding to establish a Dutch newspaper in South Africa, the name De Burger is chosen
… which, at first, supported the nationalist cause and apartheid, and was the mouthpiece of the National Party of …
Event19 die at Shell House massacre
… The ANC saw it as a power struggle as the demise of apartheid was finalised. The IFP is based on a Zulu cultural …
EventJohn Koenakeefe Mohl , SA artist and founder member of Artists Under the Sun, dies in Soweto
… to South Africa and opened an art school in Sophiatown. Apartheid laws forced Mohl to close the school, after which …
EventSuppression of Communism Act 44 of 1950 severely limits what the media could report
… One of the most infamous of all security laws during the apartheid era, it severely limited what the media could …
EventPassbook laws relaxed
… first state of emergency and the banning of a host of anti-apartheid organisations, including the African National …
ArchiveBiography of Joyce Sikhakhane-Rankin by Victoria Sedeno
… work in the underground ANC during the height of the anti-apartheid struggle reveal the excessively brutal and inhumane … mobilize the student population in…
Excerpts from Priscilla Jana’s book 'Fighting for Mandela' that relate to Solomon Mahlangu
… of the biggest landmark cases in the appalling history of apartheid-era judiciary. It shocked the world. By June 1977, … the Soweto uprising, a virtual…
January 8th Statements -Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 85th Anniversary of the ANC- 8 January 1997
… about making millions of our people, all along excluded by apartheid, a full part of national life. It is about giving … or neglecting the plight of the…
ArchiveChapter 5 Last resort: armed resistance by Denis Goldberg
… where we would have to challenge the armed forces of the apartheid state. We were witnessing an increasing use of … force – or the threat of it – to suppress…
ArticleSouth African General Elections 2019 - List of Political Parties
… and the South African Congress of Democrats was an anti-apartheid organisation run by radical white lefties. African … from the party four months later. It…
ArticleSouth African Constitutional Development Timeline 1902 - 1997
… (PF), a loose alliance of parties which have held an anti-apartheid position is launched. The PF Conference agrees on a … The National Party apologizes…
ArchiveI Write What I Like: Selected Writings
… by Steve Biko, one of South Africa's most influential anti-apartheid thinkers and the founding figure of the Black … , through to 1972, when banning orders…
The Student Wages Commissions, the 1973 Durban Strikes, and the Politics of Statistics by Grace Davie
… about the varied meaning of poverty, inequality, and apartheid as a cheap-labor system. Overall, students and … the economic pressure campaigns of the global…
Commemorating the 55th death anniversary of Suliman Saloojee
… being thrown to his death. Saloojee was the fourth anti-apartheid activist to die in custody and many more were to … Bronze for his excellent contribution to…
EventThe first 'Bantustans' or 'homelands' comes into existence when the Transkei Regional Authority is instituted
… of their land access via the 1913 Land Act. Later, under apartheid (after 1948) the division and control were more … for their own governments, led by chiefs…
Address by President Jacob Zuma at the celebration of 60th Anniversary of the Freedom Charter, Kliptown, Johannesburg, 26 June 2015
… African Constitution. Comrades, Compatriots, Friends, The apartheid regime viewed the Charter as an act of treason. The … the leadership and focussed…
Chief Albert Luthuli Centenary Lecture by President Jacob Zuma, 7 September 2012, Kimberley, Northern Cape
… 1948, this racial discrimination would be formalized as Apartheid when the Nationalist Party came to power. In 1951, … mass protests which were met with…
Women’s liberation by Zanele Dhlamini (Mbeki)
… Black women of South Africa who live under the policies of Apartheid, and also to look at the very important role, I … a poll-tax whatever their economic or…
Chapter 9 - People’s Education and People’s Power: Mobilisation and Collective Action
… which various political reforms were instituted by the apartheid state and there was an intensification of political … when a country-wide State of Emergency…
Address by his excellency, President Jacob Zuma at the 50th Anniversary of the Mpondo Revolt of 1960, 07 June 2010, Ingquza Hill, Lusikisiki, Eastern Cape
… of June 1960, on the one hand. At just one fell swoop the apartheid regime visited an untold misery on our innocent … are indelible marks of the price you…
Opening Statement at the Second National Consultative Conference of the ANC by O. R. Tambo, Kabwe, Zambia, 16 June, 1985
… which they perished will emerge victorious. The crime of apartheid which is responsible for their deaths must be … are illusions, fleeting shadows without…