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EventMandela is awarded the Joliot Curie Gold Medal for Peace
… African Indian Congress (SAIC) and the leader of the anti-apartheid movement in Britain. Source: Leader Newspaper. …
EventMinister reports 23 acts of sabotage in RSA
… government had already arrested sixty Black suspected anti-apartheid activists. Sources: Books: Kalley, J.A.; Schoeman, …
EventAllan Boesak is arrested
… a triumvirate of South African clerics opposed to the Apartheid regime. …
EventP.W. Botha becomes SA’s first Executive President
… they viewed the new constitution as a means to enhance apartheid. …
EventP.W. Botha proposes a 'Constellation of States'
… neighbours and create a buffer zone that would protect the Apartheid government from Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) attacks. The …
EventBishop Zulu refused passport by the state
… on 'Church and Society' was planned for July. During the Apartheid era the South African government regularly refused …
EventDe Klerk and Mandela receive UNESCO peace prize
… award was given to them for their brave effort in ending apartheid, thus bringing peaceful negotiations for a …
EventMandela addresses ANC rally in Durban
… Buthelezi, for the role he had played in opposing apartheid. Mandela also emphasised the need for a single …
EventLocal elections in Townships
… 1980s, which attempted to co-opt Black leaders into the Apartheid system without sharing power, the government …
EventANC makes first submission to TRC
… of its record and strategy during its campaign against Apartheid. The document expressed the ANC's full support and …
EventMgqwetho,the first poem of Nontisi is published
… the role of rural people in the struggle against apartheid. Click here to read more about the arts in South …
EventPutin visits South Africa
… support from Moscow during its many years of fighting apartheid. …
EventTranskei announces it is re-establishing diplomatic relations with South Africa
… back to the late 1970s when Transkei demanded areas the apartheid government had designated as “white” to be part of …
EventThe Minister of Cooperation and Development, Dr. Piet Koornhof, announces the lifting of the ‘72-hour curfew’
… imposed on visiting blacks was one of the most hated apartheid laws. This curfew formed an integral part of …
EventParliament passes legislation separating the people of South Africa into four distinct races
… Parliament. Subsequently, it became the cornerstone of the Apartheid policy. An office was set up to oversee the …
EventA proposed amendment to the Population Registration Act is made
… of many other racially based laws. One of the apartheid laws passed in the 1950s was the Group Areas Act, …
EventTranskei’s first President, Paramount Chief Botha Sigcau, dies
… for the massacre because he was seen as supporting the apartheid government. This led to the uprising in Pondoland …
Contact
… parties illegal in South Africa. Contact, in defying apartheid, documented political struggles not only in the …
Article1910-1924: African nationalism and working-class and popular protests
… reserves ' created by the Land Act was a forerunner of the apartheid-era ' Bantustans ' or ' homelands .' Denying the … of Africans' right to own land. …
The ANC Women’s League in the Struggle for Women’s Rights in South Africa by Meghan Knapp
… its unbanning in 1960. For 30 years they fought against apartheid through underground organisations. In 1990 the … active, participating in riots and…
ArticleAfrican nationalism and working-class & popular protests, 1910-1924
… reserves ’ created by the Land Act was a forerunner of the apartheid-era ‘ Bantustans ’ or ‘ homelands .’ Denying the … of Africans’ right to own land. Land,…
A Matter of ‘Principle’: Corporate America and the South African Worker in the Early 1970s by Mattie C. Webb
… uprising as the pivotal moment that bolstered the anti-apartheid movement’s divestment campaign and turned world opinion against apartheid in South Africa,…
EventThe Azanian People's Organisation (AZAPO) is founded after the government banned a host of BCM organisations in October 1977.
… of the 16 June 1976 Uprising, in Soweto, Johannesburg, the apartheid government banned all the organisations under the … and continued to propagate it in it…
January 8th Statements -Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 89th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 2001
… legacy of colonialism on our continent, the system of apartheid in our country. Being an insult to all people of … and a direct threat to their freedom, the…
Chapter 4 - Removing the obstacles
… asked: Who but incurable bigots or escapist clingers to apartheid myths could fail to be moved by the television … cynical fringe that has a vested interest…
ArchiveSpeech of the President of the ANC, Nelson Mandela to members of the British parliament House of Commons, London, 5 May 1993
… and the public at large has been with the issue of apartheid. This country has produced men and women whose … of programmes aimed at dismantling the system…
ArticleList of uMkhonto weSizwe Operations
… omissions and errors, due to censorship during the apartheid era and other difficulties in collecting … water and power supplies ??/06/85 Collaborators in…
Message to the People of South Africa on the 68th Anniversary of the ANC by O. R. Tambo, 8 January 1980
… activity of the masses of the people. The astounded apartheid regime, which thought it had pacified all of us by … Changes Even in the recent past, leading…
His Life and Legacy - Oliver Tambo
… in the struggle for liberation from oppression and the apartheid system in particular' in the years to come. 'They … dedicated to assisting black people…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 68th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1980
… activity of the masses of the people. The astounded apartheid regime, which thought it had pacified all of us by … Changes Even in the recent past, leading…