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PlaceVenda
… as a strategy, of the South African Government, to further Apartheid. Venda was not recognised as an Independent …
EventThabo Mbeki, former President of SA, is born in Idutywa, Transkei
… in economics at Sussex University. During the years of apartheid, he played a major role in turning the …
EventDr. Hendrik Verwoerd announces his plan to grant Transkei independence
… Transkei , a homeland proposed for Xhosa people under the apartheid policy of separate development. The Transkei was to …
EventSeretse Khama is re-united with his British wife
… of Mixed Marriages Act, Act No 55 of 1949 enacted by the apartheid government. The Act forbade marriages between …
EventWiehahn Commission Report tabled in parliament
… unions were still required to register with the state. The apartheid government used this registration process as a tool …
EventArthur Elias Letele, medical doctor and prominent ANC leader who went into exile in Basutoland, dies
… in 1952, Letele persuaded a number of volunteers to defy apartheid laws, and this led to his first arrest. Later in …
EventIngrid Jonker, SA poet, commits suicide.
… of the parliamentary committee responsible for the apartheid system of censorship. In April 2004, Jonker was …
EventNelson Mandela condemns the Lockerbie bombing, the first mass killing of Americans by terrorists
… of the 1988 bombing in 1991. In 1997, after the fall of apartheid, Nelson Mandela, accompanied by Graça Machel and …
EventThe Dutch Reformed Church decides that Afrikaans may be used alongside Dutch during services
… here to read more about the Dutch Reformed Church and Apartheid. …
EventMohandas K. Gandhi is arrested as he leads a march of Indian miners in South Africa
… was drawn on significantly during the fight against apartheid. The Defiance Campaign in 1952 can be seen as an …
PlaceCity Hall, Cape Town
… majority of South Africa, black and white, recognise that apartheid has no future,’ Mandela said. ‘Our march to freedom …
EventAllan Boesak's plea for the acquittal on fraud charges is rejected and the case is postponed to the following year
… this platform to speak out against the policies of the apartheid government. Boesak was also instrumental in … Democratic Front (UDF), which was one of the…
Extraordinary ministerial meeting of The Co-ordinating Bereau Of The Non-aligned Countries on the question of Namibia -1985
… General Assembly, United Nations Special Committee against Apartheid, United Nations Special Committee on … same time, further consolidating its obnoxious…
Re-emergence of resistance, 1980-89
… as the most effective force in the fight against apartheid throughout the country. With the launch of the … the country was entering a new period that would…
ArticleThe death of Samora Machel
… about the possibilities of the involvement of the apartheid government. Of thirty-four people on board only … (TRC) investigation Following the demise of…
ArticleThe Pietermaritzburg Treason Trial, 1984
… deny making speeches where they expressed opposition to apartheid, specific speeches were made by specific people in … it was not against the people because…
David Goldblatt: Intersections by Matt Damsker
… identification with the white oppressors who perpetuated apartheid for so long, but his photography doesn't stoop to … seems to suit Goldblatt's recent…
PlaceDiepkloof, Soweto
… male migrant workers. These Hostels were Built by the Apartheid government to provide basic shelter in the form of … has only 3% of the City’s retail space…
ArchiveGetting to know Omar from the inside out by Robyn Sassen, February 19, 2019
… the co-founders of Afrapix — a collective agency of anti-apartheid photographers, both professional and amateur — in … deeply interfaced with the terrible…
Fifty Fighting Years by A. Lerumo. The Communist Party of South Africa, 1921 - 1971 - Foreword to Book, by Dr Yusuf M. Dadoo,1972
… of India have in the outrageous doctrine and practices of apartheid and of their desire to help in every possible way … to be done. Despite every resolution…
Address by President Nelson Mandela to the interfaith commissioning service for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Cape Town, 13 February 1996
… lasting reconciliation. South Africa's transition from apartheid has seen the accomplishment of one step after … another that sceptics judged impossible. The…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at a Luncheon hosted by Prime Minister Tomichi Murayama Tokyo, 5 July 1995
… Japan gave to us in the struggle to free ourselves from apartheid is remembered with gratitude by our people. Our … when South Africa has become a democracy…
Mandela and his three wives - Evelyn, Winnie and Graca by Sapa-AFP, 6 December 2013
… became a liability for Mandela and the anti-apartheid movement. In 1986, at a time when suspected … died in an air crash many believe was orchestrated by the…
PlaceUmlazi
… Group Areas Act in Durban townships In the 1940s, when the Apartheid policy came into existence, Black South Africans … forced removals, most notably in Cato…
PlaceKwaMashu
… townships that emerged with the implementation of the Apartheid Group Areas Act during the 1950s. The Group Areas Act was a system used by the Apartheid…
ArticleAbstracts presented for the 1973 Durban Strikes Conference
… the KwaZulu regime, 1972-75 by David Hemson 1973: Neo-apartheid and the Sleeping the Giant by Mbuso Nkosi The …
ArticleSouthern Methodist University Partnership Project - 2020 submissions
… about history. Project: Deborah Matshoba’s fight against Apartheid Victoria Sedeno Victoria Sedeno is senior at …
ArticleHistory of Women’s Struggle in South Africa
… in her book, A Place in the City: The Rand on the Eve of Apartheid, describes how Afrikaans women formed 'wives clubs' … white governments now hardened into…
PlaceOliver Tambo District Municipality
… 1917 – 24 April 1993), who was a South African anti-apartheid politician and revolutionary who served as … Districts, the Homeland of the Xhosa during the…
Chapter 2 - Historical Background
… Party (NP) came to power, introduced the policy of apartheid, and enacted such notorious laws as the Suppression … Act, the pass laws, and the stock…