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PlaceJohn Vorster Square Police Station or Johannesburg Central Police Station
… cells were on the lower floors of the building. During the Apartheid era, this Police Station, was notoriously known as a site of interrogation, torture and…
ArchiveThe preliminary nature of the Constitutional document
… administrative system while dismantling the structures of apartheid. …
EventThe Population Registration Bill is read for the first time
… time in Parliament. The Bill was a cornerstone of the Apartheid policy as it recognised three race classifications, … 30 January 2014]|Joyce, P. (1990). The…
EventIndia complains in 1946 against racism in South Africa
… details of the early opposition by India to the new apartheid government, read article. To read the actual … Enuga Reddy, (2012), ‘ INDIA AND THE STRUGGLE…
EventAfrican-American tennis player, Arthur Ashe. is denied a visa by the South African Government
… at Ellis Park in April. Arthur Ashe campaigned against apartheid in South Africa and called for South Africa to be …
EventANC promulgates its constitutional proposals
… proposals envisioned a two-phase transition to a post-apartheid democracy and were supported by the South African …
EventNelson Mandela says “thank you” to the world
… he thanks the world for their wide support for the anti-apartheid struggle. The concert comes a few months after …
Archive“A Black Rather Well-Known South African Recently Arrived in London”: Critical Responses to Todd Matshikiza’s Chocolates for My Wife
… also through paranoia about continuing to be surveilled by apartheid spies in London; at one point he suspects a London … in ways that are revealing of…
Passive resistance in South Africa by Oliver Tambo, 2 June 1966
… statements of policy in condemnation of such practices as apartheid in South Africa, where black men and women are held … of action. It was not unusual for…
PlacekwaMakhutha Township
… Massacre involving state-sponsored violence during apartheid . The name means "at the Makhutha location," and … linked to state-sponsored paramilitary…
EventAn intricate prisoner exchange takes place in Maputo, Mozambique
… Maputo, Mozambique, involving 133 Angolan soldiers, anti-apartheid activists, Klaas de Jonge, a Dutch anthropologist, …
EventThe New Republic Party is formed
… from the former UP left the new party to join the anti-apartheid Progressive Federal Party (PFP) or the ruling …
EventAfrikaans Writer Breytenbach is sentenced
… organisation Atlas or Okhela, a resistance group fighting apartheid in exile and was intended to be the White wing of …
EventThe Japanese government announces that South Africans will no longer be granted visas to enter Japan
… Due to South Africa’s Apartheid regime in the 1970s and 1980s, many countries were …
Albert Luthuli`s speech to ceremony for presenting him the Christopher Gell Memorial Award, 21 October 1961, Port Elizabeth
… against the ruinous flood of the Group Areas Act and its apartheid menace. At this juncture, I tentatively throw out a … engendered in this land…
ArchiveClass, Consciousness and Organisation: Introduction by Kumi Naidoo
This chapter comes from the book
ArticleDavid Goldblatt Timeline
… Southerners and my photographs weren't explicitly about apartheid, which was becoming a buzzword. They were … said to me, "Come, let's go to Swaziland." [To…
EventControversial 'Black Jesus' painter, Ronald Harrison, dies
… Christ, depicts Luthuli crucified on the cross next to apartheid mastermind Hendrick Verwoed and former Minister of … as Roman Soldiers. The painting not…
ArchiveOpening address at the 59th Annual Congress of the National Union of South African Students, University of Cape Town, 1981.
… emergence of a Broad Democratic Front organising to oppose apartheid, and the role played by the National Union in those …
ArchivePolitical Action Committee report
… the National Union. These include exposing the role of the apartheid government, to draw students into supporting the …
ArchiveBolt Number 10 May 1974
… Morphet, Contents: Poetry, Imprisoned by the Dictators of Apartheid Ahmed Timol considers the art of Eduardo Paolozzi …
EventZola Budd and Annette Cowley are banned from the Commonwealth Games
… refusal to support economic sanctions against the apartheid government of South Africa. …
Nelson Mandela Speaks on Tolerance, April 30, 2006 on CBS (Video)
… he was able to lead South Africa from the repression of apartheid into a peaceful democracy. …
EventRiots erupt in East London, Eastern Cape
… Nelson Mandela, Yusuf Dadoo and Walter Sisulu defied Apartheid laws in Johannesburg and other major city centres. …
EventNelson and Winnie Mandela travel to Canada.
… the economic and political pressure on South Africa to end Apartheid. …
EventKenya lifts ban on sports links with South Africa
… South Africa. The year 1991 saw many of South Africa’s apartheid modeled policies come to an end. In the same week …
EventNigeria imposes sanctions on South Africa, and implements a total trade boycott
… on South Africa, due to objections against South Africa's apartheid policy. In early 1960, Nigeria had decided to ban …
EventLucas Seage is born
… of the resistance artists, who saw art as a weapon against apartheid. References: Rankin: Images of Wood, p. 155. …
EventInaugural Conference of the South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU)
… to mobilising international solidarity action against the Apartheid regime. …
EventOmar Badsha, South African photographer, is born
… struggle. He was at the forefront of all the major anti-apartheid campaigns in Natal and the Western Cape for close …