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ArticleDrafting of the Final Constitution
… Introduction The transition from the Apartheid era to the new democratic dispensation was a … was ratified on 22 December 1993 and on 27 April 1994 it was…
BiographyNithianandan ‘Elvis' Ganese Govender
… had no contact with the increasing political opposition to apartheid. One would have expected him to accept the status … strange way, he was drawn to those…
Address by President Nelson Mandela to the annual conference of the Methodist Church Umtata, 18 September 1994
… as many of our present leaders. Although the dark night of apartheid sought to obliterate many of these institutions, … efforts to rid our country of the…
ArchiveApartheid Super Spy, Craig Williamson’s Trails of Death and Destruction: The Scandinavian Connection, (Responses to recent exposures in Jyllands Posten) by Prithiraj Dullay
… and father of Black Consciousness had been murdered by Apartheid Security Police. They had transported Biko to … without Williamson having even applied for…
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission: A Reflection of the Chasm Between Constitutional Rights and the Lived Experience in South Africa by Rhiain Moses
… of the black population in South Africa during the apartheid regime. By identifying “inarticulacy”, or an … as connected to the apartheid era, compared with…
Shared Cultural Trauma: Inarticulacy as Social Disability in South African Literature by Hannah Pagan
… of the black population in South Africa during the apartheid regime. By identifying “inarticulacy”, or an … as connected to the apartheid era, compared with…
ArticleSouth African Constitution: The Bill of Rights
… World War , and the fight against the inhumane rule of the Apartheid Government in South Africa. The Bill of Rights as … the Second World War could never…
Article1960's Diaries of Nelson Mandela on his trip through Africa
… subjugation building on prior oppression unleashed by the apartheid state to bolster its power, created a situation … country held its first democratic…
ArticleHow the Group Areas Act shaped spaces, memories and identities in Cape Town
… to identities that were socially constructed through Apartheid engineering. The importance of these identities was … the time that the District Six Museum…
ArticleChanging Perceptions of Nelson Mandela
… Mandela was viewed as a major thorn in the side of the apartheid government, serving as Secretary General of the … in mid-1990 to our first democratic…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the book launch of the series on Southern African leaders 1 August 1994
… flame of truth continues to flicker under the darkness of apartheid. No less crucial in this effort were the students … without delay. We must urgently deal…
Address by President Nelson Mandela of South Africa to the 49th session of the General Assembly New York, 3 October 1994
… will mark its 50th anniversary next year with the apartheid system having been vanquished and consigned to the … in which the UN engaged to ensure the…
EventZubeida Jaffer is detained, while pregnant, by the security police under Apartheid regulations
… obstructing a police man, but was acquitted on appeal. In 1994, Jaffer was the recipient of the Percy Qoboza Foreign … is detained, while pregnant, by the…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the National Day of Safety and Security Vosloorus, 15 October 1994
… Police Service are your police. They are not the police of apartheid. They are there to help you. Support them. Expose … National Day of Safety and Security…
EventPretoria is proposed as the new capital of ZAR
… Republic in 1961. It remains the administrative capital of post apartheid South Africa. Post- apartheid Pretoria turned a new … Nelson Mandela was…
ArticleKKNK – Klein Karoo Nasionale Kunstefees
… and indeed, defend, the place of Afrikaans culture in post-apartheid South Africa. Barrow was the chairman of the … Directors of the festival have included…
Biography of Baleka Mbete-Kgositsile by Brianna T. Hogg
… have had in politics, in addition to the fight against the apartheid movement and the rights for all people in South … the African National Congress Women’s…
Address by President Nelson Mandela to the South African Chamber of Business Banquet Johannesburg, 30 August 1994
… pains of the new provinces and the death throes of old apartheid creations. To this has been added the task of … Chamber of Business Banquet Johannesburg, 30…
ArticleAfrican National Congress (ANC)
… been in power since the transition to democracy in April 1994. The organisation was initially founded as the South … galvanized the party. As a result of the…
Images That Preserve History, and Make It : ‘Rise and Fall of Apartheid’ at Center of Photography by Holland Cotter (The New York Times), 20 September 2012
… peak form, which is the form it’s in for “Rise and Fall of Apartheid: Photography and the Bureaucracy of Everyday Life.” … African photography began in 1948,…
Closing address by President Neslon Mandela at the 49th National conferenceof the ANC Bloemfontein, 22 December 1994
… of the ANC. It called upon our people to resign from all apartheid institutions, like the Natives Representative … corruption, waste and inefficiency that…
January 8th Statements -Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 82nd Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1994.
… circumstances. We have arrived at an historic watershed. 1994 is the year in which our country will hold its first … national unity will be to begin the…
ArticlePopular resistance and police brutality in democratic South Africa
… The apartheid era was characterised by different resistances such … and Soweto uprising of 1976 . The apartheid era ended in 1994, and people hoped that…
Biography of Can Themba by Aisha Ahmed
… Key Words : Can Themba, Apartheid, Writer in Exile, Drum Magazine Born : 1924 … Permission: Baileys History Archives Golden City Post Can Themba was born a…
BiographyDr Yusuf Mohamed Dadoo
… and armed struggle in South Africa and a world-wide anti- apartheid movement." - ES Reddy Early life Dr Yusuf Mohamed … Indian origin before eventually…
ArticleSocialism
… in South Africa is closely linked to the struggle against apartheid , a system of racial segregation and oppression that lasted from 1948 to 1994. During…
The South African History Online (SAHO) Graduate Internship Programme
… and broadly histories of art and culture both under apartheid, as well as in the post-apartheid. Outside of his academic pursuits, he is an … the role of…
Address by President of the Republic of South Africa, Nelson Mandela, at the World Economic Forum, Southern Africa summit Cape Town, 9 June 1994
… solidarity you extended to us during the dark days of apartheid. The rebirth that we celebrate in South Africa is … and hard road to address the havoc…
ArticleConstitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996
… Africa , 1996, was drawn up by the Parliament elected in 1994 in the first non-racial elections and approved by the … and set in motion processes that laid…
Cyril Ramaphosa: Can ‘Mr Nice’ Be A Decisive President? Some say he lacks decisiveness, also in pursuit of his own interests by Liesl Pretorius (Huff Post), 21 August 2017
… a "working friendship" during negotiations between the apartheid government and the ANC before 1994. He believes the chemistry that developed between them ……