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EventCheryl Carolus is born
… National Congress (ANC) delegation that met with the Apartheid government. References: Wallis, F. (2000). …
EventPretoria receives city status
… of many dramatic incidents, Pretoria was the place where apartheid was actually administered from. …
EventMoses Kotane, the South African Communist Party and African National Congress stalwart dies in Moscow
… political leaders of the time Kotane was harassed by the Apartheid government agencies and repressive legislations. He …
EventBram Fischer is sentenced to life imprisonment
… to life imprisonment for his political activities against apartheid and twenty-four years for being a member of the …
EventClarence Makwetu announces the PAC’s suspension of its armed struggle
… armed hostilities between the liberation movement and the Apartheid government. … Anon, (2005) 'Anti-Apartheid Struggle' from Global Security , 07 April, …
EventOliver Tambo returns from exile
… of the armed struggle and guerrilla campaigns against apartheid. When ANC President Chief Albert Luthuli died in …
EventThe Harms Commission officially restricts investigations into South African security force
… for instance to the investigation into the murder of anti-apartheid activist David Webster , which could therefore not …
EventGeneral Lothar Neethling sues Vrye Weekblad and the Weekly Mail
… Neethling has supplied him with toxin to be used on anti-apartheid activists. Justice Johan Kriegler ruled in favour …
EventRiots erupt in Soweto
… Blacks rejected Black Community Councils as puppets of the apartheid government. Twelve people were reported dead and …
Event46664 concert is held in Fancourt
… of South African president Nelson Mandela during the apartheid era, was staged at the exclusive golf resort of …
EventDe Klerk resigns as NP leader
… difficulty due to infighting over its role in post-apartheid South Africa. De Klerk’s withdrawal from the …
EventNkosi Sikelel’iAfrica composer, Enoch Sontonga dies
… the erection of a memorial to Sontonga on the first post-apartheid Heritage Day. On 18 April 2005 the Johannesburg …
EventDennis Brutus is born
… and French ancestry, was classified as Coloured under apartheid laws. In the 1960’s he joined the Anti-Coloured …
EventSecurity officials report that levels of political violence have dropped significantly in SA
… (ANC), the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) and other anti-apartheid organisations. The extreme right reacted with anger …
EventRecord of Understanding is agreed to by the SA government and the ANC
… regarded the killings as nothing but an indictment on the apartheid government. …
PUBLIC RESPONSE TO SAHO WEBSITE
… years old) appreciate the South African experience of Apartheid. Thank you. Chris Bailey Humanities Department Tom … it is. i am a senior stundent in…
ArticleThe Group Areas Act of 1950
… The National Party was elected in 1948 on the policy of Apartheid ('separateness'). This 'separateness' put South … The Group Areas Act was fashioned as the …
Africa’s photojournalists: The wars are not over by Greg Marinovich (Daily Maverick), 25 June 2013
… and that can be ‘cured’. “I don’t think that being gay is un-African. It has been there for a long time. Society tells them it is un-African. I think…
South African Youth Revolutionary Council (SAYRCO)
… momentum and organise further campaigns to undermine the apartheid government’s authority. He began by addressing mass … for a brief account of the…
ArticleSouth African Congress of Trade Unions Timeline 1919-1997
… urging maximum co-operation and unity in opposing apartheid legislation. October, The executive of the … federations in creating a united action against…
Chapter 6 - Reform, Repression and Mass Resistance
… marked a watershed in political relations between the apartheid state and the dominated social groups. Henceforth, … state to crush the extra-parliamentary…
ArchiveThe Women’s Jail at the Old Fort and its Impact by Claire Ennis
… [1] In an ironic way, it echoed its inhabitants during apartheid. Just as they were dragged from their jobs, … in greater numbers as more women joined the…
Statement by Albert Luthuli to the council of the Institute of Race Relations, 19 December 1960
… This spirit is inherent in the theory and practice of apartheid. It makes white South Africa under the leadership … the General Assembly of the United…
ArticleDefining culture, heritage and identity
… This is especially true in the wake of segregationsit Apartheid policies which attempted to divide and conquer the … elsewhere. This is primarily due to the…
ArticleHealth and welfare
… widespread poverty and deep inequalities - the legacy of apartheid still casting a long shadow on the new democracy, … of antiretroviral drugs taken by the…
EventThe National President of the Black People's Convention, Kenneth Hlaku Rachidi, declares that riots have lead to a new era of political consciousness
… with Youth Day, was the result of increasing opposition to apartheid amongst the black youth of South Africa. In particular, students were protesting against…
ANC pays tribute to the late Arthur Goldreich, 26 May 2011
… white South African but bore the pain of fighting against apartheid. As the member of the ANC and Umkhonto Wesizwe he …
ANC statement on the passing of Epainette Mbeki, 7 June 2014
… of activism and her contribution in the struggle against apartheid. Mrs Mbeki has for decades been a pillar of the …
Not in My Neighbourhood Documentary
… Spatial Violence and the legacy of Architectural Apartheid in São Paulo, Cape Town and New York. We will be …
EventNelson Mandela receives a hero’s welcome in New York
… ANC, are admired and respected (and) that it is the dying apartheid system that is totally isolated....” Mandela’s tour …