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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 …
ArticleWomen in the schizophrenic 1940s - World War II and its aftermath
… white governments now hardened into the birth of the apartheid regime and as the 1940s gave way to the 1950s the … government began to implement a wide range…
ArticleAnti-Pass Campaign
… 3,1960, goaded the Nationalist Party by criticizing apartheid and proclaiming that "winds of change" were … freedom. The PAC opposed every piece of the…
Nelson Mandela by O. R. Tambo - Extract from "No Easy Walk to Freedom: Articles, Speeches and Trial Addresses of Nelson Mandela edited by Ruth First", 1965.
… - and crimes of violence are ever on the increase in apartheid society - but also for petty infringements of … or Coloured - can be a crime for Africans…
This item by Oliver Tambo was published as the introduction to the book "No Easy Walk to Freedom" by Ruth First, 01 June 1965
… - and crimes of violence are ever on the increase in apartheid society - but also for petty infringements of … or Coloured - can be a crime for Africans…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the Johannesburg opening of the Anne Frank Exhibition at the Museum Africa Johannesburg, 15 August 1994
… Africa of today, as we emerge from the treacherous era of apartheid injustice. I think we will all agree that it is not … subjected to terrible privations,…
Nelson Mandela by Oliver Tambo
… - and crimes of violence are ever on the increase in apartheid society - but also for petty infringements of … or Coloured - can be a crime for Africans…
PlaceTrafalgar High School
… In the time of Education and its opposition to the Apartheid system, (when many students and teachers were … Street. As a School that had existed through the…
ArticleJune 16 Soweto Youth Uprising timeline: 1976-1986
… publication, Pro Verlate , were banned. November, The UN Security Council declared that a further acquisition of …
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…
ArchiveNew Deal? South Africa 1983
… Centre in Cape Town. It was a broad coalition of anti apartheid organizations that opposed the government's …
PlacePollsmoor Prison
… his release. Walter Sisulu and Ahmed Kathrada , both anti-apartheid activists, were also incarcerated at Pollsmoor and …
Turning Points Books 1-6
… by The Department of Education Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid commissioned by The Department of Education Book 6: …
EventInternational Labour Organisation excludes South Africa from its two-day meeting
… South Africa was faced with many challenges because of its apartheid policies. At one stage South African goods were …
EventZola Budd of SA and Mary Decker of the USA collide accidentally during the 3000m in the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics
… African, was competing under British citizenship due to apartheid laws in South Africa, and Decker,was representing …
EventFEDSAW Western Cape Region launched
… in the 1950s and conducted a massive campaign against apartheid laws, the pass laws in particular. FEDSAW was multi … on 29 August 1987’ , from South Africa…
EventNUSAS disbands
… to members of all races; and also called for the end of apartheid and all discriminatory policies. While the …
EventAlbert Luthuli delivers his Nobel Peace Prize Lecture
… for Peace. At the time, he was serving a ban under the apartheid government for his role as president of the ANC, …