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EventPolice constable is buried alive at Ackerville cemetery near Witbank
… members of security forces were targets of attacks by anti -apartheid militants in the political struggle. The …
EventGeneral Gamal Abdel Nasser is officially elected President of Egypt
… history. He was well-known for his Arab nationalist and anti-colonial foreign policy. He is still seen by many …
EventNew Zealand imposes a blanket ban on sports teams from South Africa
… South Africa dates back to the late 1950s. In 1959, the Anti-Apartheid Movement which played a significant role in …
EventIn Britain, Foreign Office Minister Lynda Chalker, meets Oliver Tambo, president of the ANC.
… was responsible for holding together the various anti-apartheid movements and was sent overseas to mobilise …
EventBishop Ambrose Reeves returns to South Africa
… Anti-apartheid cleric, Dr Richard Ambrose Reeves, Anglican …
EventPolitician and Community leader Horatio Mbelle dies
… sports activities. He was also instrumental in the anti-pass campaign of 1919, under the banner of the South …
EventWinnie Mandela attacked by a group of people
… her husband. Because the Qunta family were well known anti-apartheid activists, she believed that the murder trial …
EventZola Budd breaks a world record
… took place without any publicity that might have attracted anti-apartheid demonstrators as South Africa was banned from …
EventAnnouncement of Hezekiel Sepeng’s 2 years suspension
… was not guilty, saying a lot of things went wrong on World Anti-Doping Agency's (Wada's) side. Sepeng was reinstated on …
EventPharmaceutical companies drop a lawsuit against South Africa ending an international battle over patent rights and profit
… the manufacture of generic versions of life saving anti-Aids drugs. These companies were demanding millions of …
EventCape Colony Prime Minister opposes War
… peaceful settlement." He was hoping to avert war, but his anti-war stance finally led him to resign as Prime Minister …
EventBram Fischer born today
… (CPSA), openly participating in its activities. His anti-apartheid stance led him to be a member of the Congress …
EventJustin Alexander (Alex) La Guma, SA novelist, short story writer and political activist, is born in Cape Town
… classified as Coloured. La Guma’s father was involved in anti-apartheid activism, a path that he would also follow. La …
EventSouth African Foreign Minister, ‘Pik’ Botha denies South African support for RENAMO
… South Africa agreed to cease its support for RENAMO, an anti-government guerrilla organisation in Mozambique. …
EventPLAN launches armed struggle against South Africa
… of Namibia. On this date is also commemorated the anti-colonial war against Germany in the figure of Samuel …
EventThe Security Council begins deliberations on the situation in South Africa
… 1960, where the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) staged an anti-pass demonstration outside Sharpeville police station …
EventPass laws are suspended in South Africa
… The suspension of pass laws followed the country-wide anti-pass campaign that resulted in the Sharpeville Massacre …
ArchiveAn Interview With F.W. De Klerk, the Last Apartheid President of South Africa by Nicolas Rossier
… 21 years ago, leading anti-apartheid activist Nelson Mandela was released by South … constitution. The ANC party from time-to-time comes with legislation,…
Archive“A Black Rather Well-Known South African Recently Arrived in London”: Critical Responses to Todd Matshikiza’s Chocolates for My Wife
… March 1960. The Boycott Movement changed its name to the Anti-Apartheid Movement (AAM) that year; this London-based … of the “most important organizations in…
ArticleRight to Organise Timeline 1500-1994
… especially in the mining sector, ensured that they passed legislation that marginalized Black workers. 1918-1929 The …
Broadcast to South Africa by OR Tambo on the 8th Anniversary of Umkhonto we Sizwe, 16 December 1969
… we Sizwe, indeed the challenge to all Africa and all anti-imperialists still remains; this is the capture of the … and imperialism, will abandon their…
Statement by Oliver Tambo on ANC`s seventieth anniversary: Appeal to the world, 02 December 1981
… ANC - a non-tribal loyalty, a loyalty which was inherently anti-colonial and would in the course of time develop to become non-ethnic, nonracial and anti…
Capture the Citadel. Broadcast to South Africa on the eighth Anniversary of the Formation of Umkhonto we Sizwe by O. R. Tambo, 16 December 1969
… we Sizwe, indeed the challenge to all Africa and all anti-imperialists still remains; this is the capture of the … and imperialism, will abandon their…
Press Conference in Addis Ababal: Oliver Tambo, 02 July 1987
… Party there are conservatives who are frantically anti-ANC, anti-SWAPO, anti-Frontline States, who are strongly pro-racist South …
ArticleThe World and South Africa when Nelson Mandela was born
… faction of the German Social Democratic Party that was anti-war.It agitated for mass strikes among workers to end … in Vol 12 (1987), pp. 72-92.| Mantzaris,…
PlaceThe Company Gardens, Cape Town.
… Avenue was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on13 August 1937, while the entrance, walls and …
Afrikaner Newspapers and the newspaper industry from 1830
… was published on 15 January 1876. The newspaper took an anti-English, anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist stance, decrying free trade in goods, …
EventDetectives testify against members of the ANC and the Congress Alliance in the infamous Treason Trial
… (ANC), the South African Communist Party (SACP), the South Indian Congress (SAIC) and the Congress of Democrats (COD). …
EventANC adopts the Programme of Action
… Passive resistance campaign mounted by the South African Indian Conference (SAIC). In 1952, the young guard in the …
EventLeaders of six homelands reject new constitution
… The new constitution caused a split in the Coloured and Indian communities between those who saw it as a chance for …