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EventThe Riotous Assemblies Act Commences
… Act No 74 of 1982 Click here for more on South African Apartheid legislation. …
EventFormer premier of Mpumalanga, Afrikaans poet and lawyer, Mathews Phosa is born
… tipped off by the ANC's Counter-Intelligence Unit that the Apartheid security forces were planning to kill him by means …
EventAfrican leaders issue a call for African unity
… T. Bokwe, and L.K. Ntlabati. They were protesting against apartheid and its dangers to African education, freedom of …
EventFormer NP member Roelf Meyer is born
… Development, a post he previous held under the apartheid regime. In 1997, Meyer and Bantu Holomisa formed …
EventSA Prime Minister H. F. Verwoerd stabbed to death
… Service Officer Dimitri Tsafendas stabs main architect of apartheid Prime Minister H.F. Verwoed to death. A prior …
EventWinnie Mandela is elected ANCWL president
… one of the most recognised faces of the struggle agaisnt apartheid. Several productions depicting her life have been …
EventDe Klerk announces a referendum to test his political reforms
… reforms. He introduced sweeping reforms that brought apartheid to an end. 69% of White voters voted in favor of …
EventThe SA Cricket team is re-admitted to international cricket
… a resolution taken against the South African government's apartheid policy. This led to South Africa playing only …
EventUnited Front launch in jeopardy
… implicated organisations of either having participated in apartheid structures or for their racial make-up. The move of …
EventDulcie September is assassinated in Paris
… trade (including nuclear material) between France and the Apartheid government in South Africa. Sergeant-Major Joseph …
EventArchbishop Desmond Tutu is arrested
… Desmond Tutu, a central figure in the fight against apartheid, was arrested outside parliament while leading a …
EventThe Congress of Traditional Leaders of South Africa (Contralesa) is launched
… ANC's most important rural partners. After the demise of Apartheid, Contralesa campaigned for the constitutional … in South Africa: law, power & culture in…
EventSebe seeks International Court of Justice to mediate in the ‘Kei dispute
… the International Court of Justice in the Hague. The Apartheid government originally created these Bantustan …
EventZola Budd breaks a world record
… place without any publicity that might have attracted anti-apartheid demonstrators as South Africa was banned from …
EventFormer Cabinet Minister Dullah Omar dies
… in 1983, which led to him being closely watched by the Apartheid government. In the period nearing Nelson Mandela’s …
EventMxenge murder accused Dirk Coetzee found guilty
… Judge Pieter Combrinck finds Dirk Coetzee, Apartheid policeman and Vlakplaas assassination squad …
Seedtime: Omar Badsha Retrospective
… and a way of seeing that challenged the established apartheid tropes. In the words of Professor Ari Sitas, …
EventSol Kerzner admits to the Harms Commission, that he has paid R2m for the personal benefit of Chief George Matanzima
… Kerzner has a reputation of being connected to both the apartheid government and the ANC government. He has since …
EventThe Esso Oil Company closes its business in South Africa
… the hope that they could contribute in the eradication of apartheid and achievement of equality. One of the companies …
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 …
EventChief Albert Luthuli is banned for a further five years
… against the pass laws. Yet all these were menacing to the apartheid government hence they gave Luthuli many banning …
Timol Inquest: He was murdered but culprits are dead, court rules
… in this country but across the diaspora.” Dozens of anti-apartheid activists died in police detention, with no one … members of the Security Branch during…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA) Johannesburg, 21 November 1997
… the intentions of its leaders, as a key institution of the apartheid system. Whatever the inclinations of its staff, … Africa and their determination to…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the ANC’s manifesto launch 24 August 1995
… We turned our backs on the division and conflict of apartheid, and we set the nation irreversibly on the path of … for them. 3.2 The old local councils were…
EventThe founding member of United Democratic Front and struggle activist Johnny Issel dies
… matric, he became actively involved in the East Rand anti apartheid Labour party, contesting for the Coloured … the liberation struggle of South Africa to…
The National Arts Festival
… theatre and resistance art during the height of the apartheid era, and it still offers an opportunity for …
ArticleSignificance of the Congress of the People and the Freedom Charter
… of the Congress Alliance. It served as a vision of a post-apartheid South Africa, which was to be used as a mobilising …
ArticleSouthern Methodist University Partnership Project - 2016 submissions
… about the region's sectarianism, she became interested in apartheid in South Africa as well as other aspects of the …
ArticleA tribute to a great struggle stalwart Paul David by Siva Naidoo
… This particular episode brought international exposure to apartheid. All were subsequently charged with high treason …