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EventSipho Gumede, South African jazz legend, dies
… Born in the predominantly Indian community of Cato Manor near Durban, Sipho Gumede …
Pedi
… their land or are preparing to do so, under restitution legislation. The few Pedi who still live as labour tenants on … have been promised some security of…
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, …
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…
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,…
EventThe birth of the Treatment Action Campaign
… there was nothing that could be done to stop it. Although anti-AIDS drugs had changed the face of the epidemic in … do nothing while people kept dying," said…
ArticleThe Berlin Conference
… Britain saw its vital trade route through Egypt and its Indian Empire threatened. Comparison of Africa in the years …
ArticleMoses Kotane Timeline
… leaves South Africa with Maulvi Cachalia , leader of the Indian Congress to attend the Asia-Africa conference 5 in …
ArticleFederation of South African Women (FEDSAW)
… primarily composed of affiliated women`s groups, African, Indian, "Coloured" and white political organisations, and …
ArticleRight to Organise Timeline 1500-1994
… especially in the mining sector, ensured that they passed legislation that marginalized Black workers. 1918-1929 The …
EventRand Daily Mail publishes exposé of conditions in Homelands
… The Rand Daily Mail became South Africa’s most influential anti-Apartheid newspaper, known for its courageous and …
ArchiveMandla Mandela wants inquest into deaths of Stompie Seipie, Dr Asvat, 19 January 2018, South Africa
… Mandela, has called for an inquest into the deaths of anti-apartheid activists Stompie Seipei and Abu-Baker Asvat …
ArchiveThe Pan African Congress venture in retrospect: a Non-European Unity Movement pamphlet
… PAC breaking away from the ANC, and then the launch of the Anti-Pass Campaign,the liberals seem to have taken control of …
EventThe SACBC urges that lawful means be used to resist Apartheid
… African Catholic Bishops' Conference (SACBC) issued an anti-Apartheid letter, stating that lawful means must be used …
EventMembers of Mau Mau uprising in Kenya to receive death penalty for resisting colonial rule
… and to force them to renounce their allegiance to the anti-colonial cause …
EventEgypt is placed under martial law in response to widespread riots against the British
… From 1951 to 1952 Egypt was ravaged by violence and anti-British protest. In October 1951 the Egyptian Parliament … alhafeez, (1999), Anti Ahmadiyaa Movement…
EventSA joins World War II
… This step caused bitter dissent amongst the pro-war and anti-war sections. References: Potgieter, D.J. et al. …
EventBlack People Convention is formed
… and apartheid policies. When the party assumed a radical anti apartheid political agenda the government began to … Anti-Apartheid Struggle, (1946), ' Anti…
EventLucas Mangope leaves Mmabatho due to uprising
… free political activity in Bophuthatswana, a member of the anti-election Freedom Alliance. His stance caused widespread …
EventNP demands apology from TRC
… claims that the pre-1994 governments ordered the murder of anti-apartheid activists. Because the State Security Council …
EventDesmond Tutu is appointed TRC chairperson
… Anti-apartheid activist and Nobel laureate Archbishop Mpilo …
EventNRP leader, Vause Raw announces that his party is ready to give the President’s Council a chance
… started splintering after 1959 when MPs, including veteran anti-apartheid fighter Helen Suzman. …
EventMark Thatcher arrested
… 25 August 2004. Thatcher was charged under South Africa's anti-mercenary laws in connection with an alleged coup …
Document 61 - A. Mon [M. N. Averbach] 4 , “A Comment on Trotsky’s Letter to S.A.”, Worker’s Voice, 1, 3, July 1945 […]
… so the land problem is tied up with the problem of the anti-imperialist fight which has its bastions in the big … network of colour bars, segregation, race…
PlaceThe Company Gardens, Cape Town.
… Avenue was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on13 August 1937, while the entrance, walls and …
History of Muslims in South Africa: 1960 - 1969 by Ebrahim Mahomed Mahida
… in 'Unit 2 of Chatsworth, Durban. At the beginning, some Indian residents of Chatsworth objected to the Zanzibaris being settled in an Indian area but…
Interview with Harry Gwala conducted by Tony Karonat, January 1989, Dambuza Pietermaritzburg
… in the war, and the United Front, instead of being an anti-war organisation, it was now popularising the struggle … Youth. There was the Young Communist…
EventNelson Mandela appeals for calm after the assassination of Communist Party chief, Chris Hani
… the murder was carefully orchestrated by Janusz Walus, an anti-Communist Polish immigrant who was later sentenced after …
Links & Partnerships
… Stories and People General South African History Websites Anti-Apartheid and Southern Africa - Background . For those … to the international solidarity…
ArchiveDemocracy and the Left in Post-Apartheid South Africa, Ben Turok interviewed by Carilee Osborne
… of caucus with the chief whip. Here you run through the legislation that is coming and Ministers will report on their legislation. They will often present…