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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. …
January 8th Statements -Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 70th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1982
… been before to carry our historic mission to destroy the apartheid monster and realise the goal of total liberation of … and experience and now pose a real…
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…
‘Wash Me Black Again’: African Nationalism, the Indian Diaspora, and Kwa-Zulu Natal, 1944-1960 by Jon Soske
… different communities, and the later politics of the anti-apartheid struggle. Although a few recent publications have … Nationalism and the Indian Diaspora,…
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…
EventBlack Wednesday, the banning of 19 Black Consciousness Movement Organisations
… Internal Security Act in Modderbee Prison. Further, the apartheid regime declared illegal 19 Black Consciousness … Act. This move was done in terms of…
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 …
EventIndependent African States resolve to impose sanctions against South Africa
… against the Union of South Africa in protest against apartheid. …
EventNelson Mandela is sentenced to five years for “incitement and leaving South Africa illegally”
… the intention to prepare for an armed struggle against the apartheid government. In 1962 He was smuggled out of South …
EventThe twentieth anniversary of the arrest of Nelson Mandela is marked by a call for his release by China
… was made public by the United Nations Centre Against Apartheid in New York. Mandela’s long-term incarceration …
EventSouth African Journalist, Zwelakhe Sisulu is abducted.
… Zwelakhe Sisulu was a prominent journalist in the apartheid era who fought for justice and freedom. Sisulu was …
EventSAAN announces its decision to close the Rand Daily Mail
… was a liberal newspaper that operated at the height of apartheid. It was the first newspaper to address the issues …
EventVuyisile Mini, Trade unionist and uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK) activist is hanged
… (MK) activist was hanged for his role in the MK and anti-apartheid resistance. As a member of the South African …
EventSouth Africa withdraws from the Commonwealth
… change, but because of South Africa's policy of apartheid. When it was clear that his request would not be …
EventSouth African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU) is formed
… used it to mobilise international solidarity against the apartheid regime. With the unbanning of political …
EventCriminal Law Amendment Act No 8 commences
… which was organised in protest against repression and apartheid laws. Link: A PDF version of this act has been …
EventPolitical activist, Dr Yusuf Dadoo is re-elected President of Transvaal Indian Congress
… the Indian community lived under during segregation and apartheid. Educated in London, and later Edinburgh, Dadoo …
EventSipho Malaza allegedly dies in detention
… A Crime Against Humanity: analysing the repression of the apartheid state, Johannesburg: Human Rights Committee, p. 59. …
EventBanning orders served on NUSAS leaders
… constantly worked towards social desegregation. The Apartheid Government appointed a commission of inquiry headed …
EventDemocratic Party (DP) indicates its policies and outlines its proposed reforms
… to find a clear-cut alternative to the National Party's apartheid policy. The PP took its stand on constitutional …