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Address by President, Nelson R. Mandela, at the funeral of Martin Chris Hani FNB Stadium, Soweto, 19 April 1993
… ravaged by the war waged against us over 45 years of apartheid rule. There has been a deliberate and massive … Black lives are cheap, and will remain so as…
PlaceMofolo Arts Centre
… artists a chance to showcase their works during the Apartheid era. In its prime during the 1970s and 80s, the …
PlaceBotshabelo
… Lutheran Church in Southern Africa. In 1979, the apartheid government of South Africa set up a township in the …
`We will come back with Msholozi`- erupts Pondoland, 12 December 2008
… They are the ones who started the armed struggle to topple apartheid. We remember the Pondo revolt in 1960 at Ngquza. …
EventOn 17th November 1921 Professor Richard van der Ross was born in Plumstead, Cape Town
… this period he also became actively involved in the anti-Apartheid protests, after he was forcefully removed from …
ArchiveAcceptance of Amnesty International Ambassador of Conscience Award, by Nelson Mandela, 1 November 2006
… for the forgotten prisoners of poverty. Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is people who have made …
Giyani, Polokwane
… Black pharmacist set up shop here during the years of apartheid. Because of where Giyani finds itself …
PlaceMalay Quarter, Cape Town
… incursions from commercial development and the threat of Apartheid legislation. It is one of the oldest parts of Cape … incursions from commercial…
Address by President Nelson Mandela on the occasion of the president’s budget debate in the Senate 18 June 1996
… as a condition for freedom and peace. The struggle against apartheid was an act of building unity amongst the oppressed …
EventFidel Castro, president of Cuba from 1976 to 2008, is born
… African continent served to encourage the fight against apartheid in South Africa. *Please note that some sources are …
EventMedical Association agrees to investigate Biko’s death
… security legislation, accused MASA of having ties with the apartheid regime. On 30 January 1985, the Pretoria Supreme …
EventAZAPO is re-launched in Roodepoort
… The organization saw the capitalist system rather than apartheid as the main oppressing force in South Africa and …
EventANC celebrates its 79th anniversary in Durban
… mounted on the South African government to dismantle apartheid, and township protests erupted in the 1980s, the …
EventCourt approves same-sex couple's right to marry
… Congress, which under Nelson Mandela led the country from apartheid to democracy, said that the developments confirmed …
EventMzwakhe Mbuli is sentenced to 13 years in jail
… content of his poetry. He covered issues like drugs and Apartheid and the former government banned his work, forcing …
EventSouth Africa completes destroying its stockpile of anti-personnel mines
… affected by landmines that were largely supplied by the apartheid government to the rebel movements they sponsored to …
EventNavanethem (Navi) Pillay is born
… from different political organizations detained by the apartheid government. In her first case, after starting her …
EventNicolaas Johannes Diederichs, South Africa’s fourth state president, is born
… p.95 P. Eric Louw, (2004), The Rise, fall, and Legacy of apartheid, (Praeger Publishers), pp.28-29 …
EventSouth Africa signs agreement with Switzerland to support the Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP)
… The legacy of apartheid is characterized by great political and …
The Lusaka Years: The ANC in Exile in Zambia, 1963 to 1994
… with the South African government and the transition from apartheid. It concludes by arguing that the legacy and …
PlaceCompensation, Settlement near Durban
… translated means ‘eye opener’.Land was bought by the Apartheid State during the early 1960s and first used at the …
EventFirst celebration of International Women’s Day
… the role played by women in the political struggle against apartheid as well as the historic 1956 anti-pass march by …
EventAnti-SAIC political rally ends in Lenasia
… in which the South African Indian Council (SAIC), an apartheid-created body established in 1968 as the Indian …
PlaceUnion Buildings, Pretoria
… later, in 1956, some 20 000 women, protesting against Apartheid laws, undertook a procession to the Union Buildings …
PlaceConstitutional Court of South Africa, Johannesburg
… represents South Africa’s dark past and its bright post-apartheid future. Johannesburg ’s most notorious historic …
ArticleLiberation history Timeline 1940-1949
… seized power and began to set in motion plans to implement apartheid. 1940 Electoral Laws Amendment Act of 1940 is … of the Joint Passive Resistance Council…
ArchiveUDF Campaign Manual - Section B: "How We Are Struggling - The Methods"
… 47 UDF working principles 48 Questions and answers 50 Anti-apartheid organizing manual, specifically targeting the … Anti-apartheid organizing manual,…
EventSouth Africa's TRC begins its formal hearings into Human Rights Violations
… to help deal with violations of human rights during the apartheid era. The Commission heard testimonies from all …
EventANC agrees to facilitate SA rugby's return to international games
… from participating in international games because of its apartheid policy. The agree in Harare followed a meeting …
PlaceBotshabelo, Motheo Region near Bloemfontein
… something of an enclave of Bophutatswana as a result of Apartheid and today remains governed by His Majesty Chief …