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EventHendrik Jacobus Coetsee is born
… He also held several ministerial positions in the Apartheid regime. In 1978 Coetsee was appointed Deputy …
EventThe Bantu Labour Regulations Amendment Bill becomes operative
… of workers were laid down. Due to various restrictions and apartheid still being imposed on labour unions, many Black …
EventHundreds of political prisoners began a hunger strike at Robben Island
… political unity among Black political prisoners opposed to Apartheid, as prisoners from political movements across the …
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 …
EventThe TRC is set up by parliament
… Act, No 34 of 1995, investigated what happened under apartheid between 1960 and 1994. The conflict during this …
EventGifted writer and actor William Modisane is born
… 1950s). Blame Me on History was an examination of what apartheid did to the character and self-esteem of the …
EventYusuf Dadoo, political activist, is born
… linked to the resistance of racial discrimination and apartheid. Dadoo was known by many for always forging closer …
EventSamora Machel pledges solidarity with the people of South Africa
… and was later executed when he refused to cooperate with apartheid security agencies and betray his comrades. …
EventHelen Zille, former leader of the Democratic Alliance, is born in Johannesburg
… Steve Biko. In the 1980s she joined the anti-Apartheid organisation the Black Sash . In the 1990s Zille …
Inqaba ya basebenzi
… resistance to the repressive National Government apartheid policies. Capitalism, socialism, imperialism and …
The National Arts Festival
… theatre and resistance art during the height of the apartheid era, and it still offers an opportunity for …
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 …
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 …
EventPope John Paul II celebrates a papal mass in South Africa
… the country came seven years after the cleric angered the apartheid government when he refused to kiss the ground in … is to pay tribute to your own…
ArchiveCHAPTER ONE: A Conceptual Overview by Kumi Naidoo
This chapter comes from the book
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 …
Interview with Oliver Tambo by Noticias, 05 August 1983, Maputo
… our actions in light of the continued intransigence of the apartheid regime and the brutality in the methods which it … is to wipe out the enemy forces, the…
PlaceClermont, a Township of Durban
… Clermont under the Apartheid days was a black middle income Township, in … able to buy property and build houses. Since the end of apartheid Clermont has…
SAHO Commemorates 40 Years Since Soweto Uprising: Intergenerational Dialogue by Sindile Moya
… the fear of guns. These tools were a major asset in the Apartheid regime to sow fear and disunity amongst the masses. … also all retails that were supporting…
PlaceSophiatown
… in Sophiatown. The National Party (NP), with their Apartheid system, realised that Johannesburg was growing and … naming the incident to encourage people to…
EventSouth Africa Freedom Day - 26 June 1950
… In 1950, the apartheid government introduced the Unlawful Organisations … It was this campaign that led to the consideration of apartheid by the United…
Doing Oral History
… lbe linked with relative ease to the workings of apartheid as covered in the classroom. Fact file on topic: … learners would get to grips with the workings…
EventSA's Fifa membership reinstated
… policy on sport. Previous to this, in keeping with pre-apartheid segregation, leagues had been divided according to … unmoved by the growing international…
Message by Albert Luthuli to people of Western Areas, 7 February 1955, Johannesburg
… but to end the spread of the evil and fatal disease, apartheid, which we are bitterly learning can bring only …
ArchiveThe African National Congress in exile: strategy and tactics 1960-1993
… organizations were officially banned by the white minority apartheid government. More precisely, this study seeks to …
ArchiveMandla Mandela wants inquest into deaths of Stompie Seipie, Dr Asvat, 19 January 2018, South Africa
… Mandela, has called for an inquest into the deaths of anti-apartheid activists Stompie Seipei and Abu-Baker Asvat in …
Coloured by History, Shaped by Place - New perspectives on Coloured Identities in Cape Town
… attempts to rethink what it means to be coloured in post- apartheid South Africa. It argues that coloured identities …
Eventold Indian flower seller is fined for trading in a racially restricted area
… Too many wayward laws were passed in South Africa by the apartheid government, including Group Areas Act, Immorality … of South Africa, Cape Town Campus]…
EventAllan Boesak is born
… himself as a spokesperson for Black South Africans against apartheid. During his involvement in politics Boesak occupied …
EventAbdullah Abdurahman, medical doctor and Cape community leader, dies in Cape Town
… this day at the age of 69. Founder and leader of the anti-apartheid African People's Organisation (APO) , he was the …