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EventNamibia gains Independence
… to send quarterly reports on Namibia. In addition, the apartheid policies that were implemented in South Africa were …
EventAn ANC car bomb directed at the headquarters of the Wits Command, Johannesburg, kills one person and injures 68
… the attack on the army headquarters was in response to the apartheid government deploying troops in the townships to …
EventBessie Amelia Head, SA novelist dies
… a White woman and a Black unnamed father. Due to the apartheid policies of the day, her parents were not allowed …
EventAfrikaans is declared an official language of South Africa
… of Afrikaans and its subsequent endorsement by the Apartheid government, have their roots in the attempted …
EventKing George VI is born
… Nationalist Party (NP), making way for the introduction of Apartheid. Princess Elizabeth who later became the Queen …
EventSouth Africa signs SADC treaty
… Lesotho, Angola and Zimbabwe. Due to its policy of apartheid, South Africa was excluded from any talks on …
EventSix Treason Trialists miss resumption of trial
… Trial dates back on 5 December 1956, when about 156 anti-apartheid activists were arrested in South Africa and accused …
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1950s
… calls for a broad anti-nationalist front to oppose anti-apartheid laws such as the Group Areas Act . May, Sam Kahn … Nations declares, "a policy of 'racial…
ArchiveChapter 6 Underground in Joburg by Denis Goldberg
… Police, the infamous BJ Vorster, later the President of apartheid South Africa, promised that people could be held in … with a slogan: “I gave out a leaflet”…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the Commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of 1956 Women’s March: Union Buildings, Tshwane, 9 August 2006
… further impetus to the struggle for our liberation from apartheid. We have also gathered here to salute the millions … ourselves to the pledge we made as we…
Document 18 - The Pretoria Minute
… of the Congress Alliance. It served as a vision of a post-apartheid South Africa, which was to be used as a mobilising … to express his/her views on the…
Chapter 4 - Poor, yet generous Lesotho
… Dutch Reformed Church. Yes, the same church which gave to apartheid its biblical authority and to the liberation … this with us into their society with our…
Chapter 7 - ‘We Are Also People’
… and White, products of this heinous, filthy ideology of apartheid, given its authority by a Christian church, are to … collection of South Africans nurtured…
Regarding the white male gaze in South African photography by Daniel Gallan, 14 Jun 2017
… is “complicit, like all white South Africans [during apartheid] who never really looked at the consequences of … Goldblatt.” It was only after “moving away…
Address by President Nelson Mandela opening the morals summit called by the National Religious Leaders’Forum Johannesburg, 22 October 1998
… eroded respect for one another and for life itself. That apartheid was a sin and encouraged sinful behaviour is no … for freedom have also proved corrupt…
Address by President Mandela on Heritage Day Robben Island, 24 September 1997
… are striking out in a new direction. During colonial and apartheid times, our museums and monuments reflected the … and warp the minds of the perpetrators…
Address by President Nelson Mandela to the 1995 National Conference of IDASA Cape Town, 18 August 1995
… of an era of hope and promises. The special abuses under apartheid laws which the Coloured community suffered - Group … of our communities, damaged by the…
The National Question in Post 1994 South Africa. A discussion paper in preparation for the ANC`s 50th National Conference by Z. Pallo Jordan
… the constitution in December 1996. How Did We Understand Apartheid? Since 1969 Morogoro Conference the ANC has held … is the most visible and dominant…
ArchiveChapter 19 Last thoughts – for now by Denis Goldberg
… general come to realize that there is no going back to the apartheid past and though older people find it difficult to … which inherited a technically…
EventFormer South African football coach Clive Barker is born
… title after the team was reinstated after a ban due to Apartheid . …
Statement at the 2053rd meeting of the Security Council by Mfanafuthi Johnstone (Johnny) Makatini, 9 December 1977
… eve of what we believe will be declared International Anti-Apartheid Year by the General Assembly at its thirty-second … this morning. And as we approach…
Statement of the ANC Veterans League Inaugural National Conference, 6 December 2009
… by many veterans throughout their struggle against apartheid. Believing that the elderly must play their role in … to reverse the inequalities brought about…
Congress of the People - I was there
… for the liberation of their country from the yoke of apartheid. In the Freedom Charter they set out the details of … - demands which cannot be fun filled…
ANC NGC – The Good, The Bad And The Ugly by Marius Strydom (News24 Voices), 12 October 2015
… real picture "You must remember that we did not defeat the apartheid regime, there was a negotiation. In negotiations … successive elections, it has…
Address of Nelson Mandela, President of the African National Congress on Receiving an Honorary LLD Degree at the University of Fort Hare 9 May 1992
… or into ever-increasing violence the fruits of years of apartheid. Either the people govern, establish a truly … we consent to the continued rule of those…
88. Gandhi’s legacy
… of the state in South Africa to smother criticism of apartheid and stifle protest against injustice is to label … This absurd fear of democracy is the solid…
American Supporters of the Defiance Campaign by George M. Houser
… a meeting of the United Nations Special Committee against Apartheid on June 25, 1982, to commemorate the 30th … to make statement to the Special Committee…
National Arts Festival 2017
… for political and protest theatre during the height of the apartheid era, and it still offers an opportunity for …
EventSandra Smith is the last woman to be executed in South Africa
… including infamous serial killer Daisy de Melker. The Apartheid years saw a steady increase in the number of people …
Zuma to grow ANC membership in tribute to Madiba, 17 July 2011
… Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) was arrested during the height of apartheid. Comrade Zuma will also be paying tribute to the …