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EventSA signs treaty with Great Britain on the supply of military equipment to South Africa
… US always opposed any International censure against the Apartheid government encouraged South Africa to want to … of South Africa (Cape Town)| South Africa…
EventThe Republic of South Africa is established
… normally have been granted, but because of South Africa's apartheid policy, it was vehemently opposed. Verwoerd then …
EventGeneral Barry Hertzog, former South African Prime Minister, dies
… form the party that would serve as the forerunner of the apartheid-led National Party. His refusal to support South …
EventDurban magistrate rules the death of Dr Haffejee accidental
… of the brutality employed by the security police during Apartheid. Dr Haffejee was arrested by the police on …
EventPenny Heyns, South African swimming star, is born.
… achievement also marked her as South Africa's first post-apartheid Olympic gold medalist following South Africa's …
EventSouth African Communist Party leader Abram Fischer is sentenced to life imprisonment on charges of communism
… in 1964. It was inevitable that his involvement with anti-Apartheid activists and his dedication to the SACP would …
EventIFP agrees to participate in 1994 elections
… The transition in South Africa from Apartheid regime to democratic dispensation was not easily …
EventFormer South African Prime Minister and State President John Vorster is born
… in 1966. Vorster toughened the government's enforcement of apartheid laws by introducing the Sabotage Act in 1962. He …
EventThe National Party (Transvaal) is founded
… Africa for almost 50 years and implemented the policy of apartheid. Following decades of political turmoil, South …
Bush Radio mourns, Professor William T. McClain (1923-2011)
… One of Bush Radio’s board members and a strong anti-apartheid activist Professor William Tilden McClain passed …
PlaceCR Swart Building
… the name change. “It is the view of the EFF that all apartheid names be removed. We believe proper consultation …
Book 2: The Impact and Limitations of Colonialism - Bibliography
… William. Beinart and Saul. Dubow (eds.), Segregation and Apartheid in Twentieth Century South Africa . London, …
EventF.W. de Klerk announces the release of Nelson Mandela and unbans political parties
… the multiple States of Emergency measures enacted by the Apartheid State had consistently failed to combat the ongoing … Sommer.H,(1996), From Apartheid to…
Women’s Food Committees in Cape Town during the 1940s
… Zihlangu identifies a successful campaign by women against apartheid in the market at Salt River , Cape Town, as …
Lecture by President Thabo Mbeki delivered on the occasion of the 30th Anniversary of the death of Stephen Bantu Biko, 12 September 2007, Cape Town
… Steve Bantu Biko was murdered by those responsible for the apartheid crime against humanity. We have convened here not … would mobilise these millions to…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 87th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1999
… and rural areas who were disadvantaged by colonialism and apartheid. We will continue to work with the IFP in a common … struggle, of "the most effective…
EventDivision in the Coloured Representative Council deepens
… to co-operate with the government within the framework of Apartheid, while the Labour Party was strongly opposed to it. …
PlaceSebokeng Township, Johannesburg
… Sedibeng District Municipality . It was established during apartheid and witnessed major rent boycotts in 1984. This saw … Sedibeng District Municipality. It…
PlaceButterworth, Wild Coast
… Coast (the former Transkei - a black homeland during the apartheid years). Butterworth is situated north of the Great … Coast (the former Transkei - a black…
ArticleCongress of South African Trade Unions 1994 - 2014
… address the huge socio-economic problems brought about by Apartheid government. Most importantly, the ANC government’s …
ArticleIndian South Africans
… immigration policy restrictions, imposed by the apartheid regime, were scrapped. People from India, Pakistan, …
Americans for South African Resistance, 25 June 1982
… to make statement to the Special Committee against Apartheid on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the … was a very important development in the…
The Military Defeat of the South Africans in Angola by Horace Campbell (Monthly Review), Africa, Angola
… In Angola in the spring of 1988 the armed forces of apartheid South Africa and the US-backed mercenaries of Jonas … to the independence of Namibia and then…
EventSouth Africa's new constitution is approved
… was the embodiment of the vision of generations of anti-apartheid freedom fighters and democrats who had fought for …
PlaceHangberg, Hout Bay
… designated for people categorized as Coloured during the apartheid-era. Most of the about 6 000 people living in … was established closest to the Harbour…
Speech by Nelson Mandela at Zionist Christian Church Easter Conference Moria, 3 April 1994
… To build democracy from the ashes of decades of apartheid mismanagement will not be an easy task.But we have … in a comprehensive plan to eradicate the…
Speech by Nelson Mandela at the Zionist Christian Church Easter Conference Moria, 20th April 1992
… to make different, commit an ugly sin! The sin called APARTHEID. We of the African National Congress: its … rights. The struggles of our people for land and…
PlaceTownship Tours of Cape Town
… as a neighbourhood for Black Africans long before Apartheid increased in the country. During the Sharpeville … spirit. It played a pivotal role in the…
The British Government, The Trade Union Congress, and Black South African Trade Unionism, 1973 to 1994 by Dan Feather
… felt would take up important positions in the country once apartheid was dismantled – something which British … Dan’s research examines UK-South African…
EventThe ANC calls for a day of protest and observes this day as 'South Africa Freedom Day' for the first time
… In 1950 the apartheid government introduced the Unlawful Organisations … It was this campaign that led to the consideration of apartheid by the United…