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EventOmar Badsha, South African photographer, is born
… struggle. He was at the forefront of all the major anti-apartheid campaigns in Natal and the Western Cape for close …
EventSA artist, Daniel Sefundi Rakgoathe is born
… Drift. The art centre at Rorke's Drift began during Apartheid, with the aim of nurturing the unique artistic …
EventANC attacks Koeberg nuclear power station
… it once more warned foreign investors against investing in Apartheid South Africa. …
EventThe Ciskei homeland is established
… republic'. The creation of Ciskei was in line with apartheid policies of the South African government. The …
EventWalter Sisulu, Raymond Mhlaba and Ahmed Kathrada address the public after 26 years
… prison and the rally marked the beginning of the end of apartheid. …
EventCelebrated South African photographer, David Goldblatt, receives Hasselblad honours
… piece of missing information regarding life under Apartheid in South Africa". …
EventFerdi Barnard is found guilty of killing Webster
… 1998, Ferdi Bernard was convicted for the murder of anti-Apartheid activist, David Webster. Bernard shot Webster in …
EventUDF distances itself from Madikizela
… by the TRC, as it was the leader in protest against apartheid at the time when these crimes were committed and it …
EventCol Eugene de Kock testifies in Court
… in Pretoria Supreme Court by revealing his part in the apartheid regime's 'dirty tricks' campaign. Pleading in …
EventJohannes Kerkorrel, Afrikaans singer and songwriter, is born in Johannesburg
… activism. Kerkorrel’s music was overtly critical of the apartheid government and, as a result, his albums were banned …
Dr Piet Koornhof, one of the most controversial figures in South African history, dies
… one of the most controversial figures from South Africa's apartheid era, died in a Stellenbosch frail care centre at …
EventThe second elections to the Coloured Persons’ Representative Council result in the Labour Party holding the majority seats
… Council resulted in an absolute majority for the anti-apartheid Labour Party (LP). The LP won thirty-one of the …
The ANC Women’s League in the Struggle for Women’s Rights in South Africa by Meghan Knapp
… its unbanning in 1960. For 30 years they fought against apartheid through underground organisations. In 1990 the … active, participating in riots and…
ArchiveLiving in the Interregnum by Nadine Gordimer (The New York Review of Books), 20 January 1983
… baptized the thing in the Dutch Reformed Church, called it apartheid, coining the ultimate term for every manifestation, … preoccupied with what will happen…
January 8th Statements -Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 96th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 2008
… has worked, together with the masses, first to defeat the apartheid system, and then to vanquish the legacy of racial … to similar uprisings among the rural…
Letter to Sir Geoffrey Howe, United Kingdom Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs by O. R. Tambo, 21 July 1986
… evade and indefinitely postpone decisive action to end the apartheid system. In this regard, the statements repeatedly … decisive international action to…
Letter from Oliver Tambo to Sir Geoffrey Howe, United Kingdom Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, 21 July 1986
… evade and indefinitely postpone decisive action to end the apartheid system. In this regard, the statements repeatedly … decisive international action to…
PlaceCiskei
… for the South Africa's Xhosa -speaking people as part of apartheid racial segregation . The area was relatively small … the target of popular anger in the…
EventRugby player Breyton Paulse is included in the national team after the ANCYL challenged the decision to omit him
… of ruby developed along with the political ideology of apartheid, and soon became representative of the exclusion … in the national team. By 1992, with the…
PlaceJohn Vorster Square Police Station or Johannesburg Central Police Station
… cells were on the lower floors of the building. During the Apartheid era, this Police Station, was notoriously known as a site of interrogation, torture and…
ArticleThe International Criminal Court: Origins, Jurisdiction and the ‘African Bias’
… torture, any form of sexual violence, and the crime of apartheid. ‘War crimes’ include breaches of the Geneva … important moment for South Africa, as…
Chapter 7 - Defining the process
… was needed to translate agreements reached at CODESA into legislation. However, he knew that the only significant legislation Parliament would be enacting…
ArchiveRadio Freedom: A History of South African Underground Radio by Chris A. Smith
… sharp, seven nights a week, during the darkest days of apartheid, an incendiary radio broadcast beamed out from … movement that took power in 1994 after the…
PlacekwaMakhutha Township
… Massacre involving state-sponsored violence during apartheid . The name means "at the Makhutha location," and … linked to state-sponsored paramilitary…
ArchiveDirector’s Report on the Activities of the Chris Hani Institute for the period October 2012 to September 2015
… people, from the losers rather than the winners in post-apartheid South Africa. …
PlaceKwaNdebele
… , which has a section covering the Ndebele and the Apartheid state . …
EventThe QwaQwa homeland receives self-government status
… one of the ten homelands in South Africa introduced by the apartheid government. It was home to the Batlokoa and Bakwena …
EventANC command structure in the Western Cape is arrested.
… the creation of national unity, and the nature of post-apartheid South Africa. The talks continued in Ghana and …
EventSA Prime Minister completes a tour of homelands in the Northern Transvaal
… was emphasized. The Homelands were at the centre of apartheid’s policy of separate development, aimed at …
EventA delegation of seven Coloured leaders meets with SA Prime Minister Vorster to discuss the future of the Coloured community
… the government that the present political dispensation of apartheid was unacceptable. … , ‘Coloured Labour Party strengthened its stance against apartheid , …