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EventMandela is awarded the Joliot Curie Gold Medal for Peace
… African Indian Congress (SAIC) and the leader of the anti-apartheid movement in Britain. Source: Leader Newspaper. …
EventMinister reports 23 acts of sabotage in RSA
… government had already arrested sixty Black suspected anti-apartheid activists. Sources: Books: Kalley, J.A.; Schoeman, …
EventAllan Boesak is arrested
… a triumvirate of South African clerics opposed to the Apartheid regime. …
EventP.W. Botha becomes SA’s first Executive President
… they viewed the new constitution as a means to enhance apartheid. …
EventP.W. Botha proposes a 'Constellation of States'
… neighbours and create a buffer zone that would protect the Apartheid government from Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) attacks. The …
EventBishop Zulu refused passport by the state
… on 'Church and Society' was planned for July. During the Apartheid era the South African government regularly refused …
EventDe Klerk and Mandela receive UNESCO peace prize
… award was given to them for their brave effort in ending apartheid, thus bringing peaceful negotiations for a …
EventMandela addresses ANC rally in Durban
… Buthelezi, for the role he had played in opposing apartheid. Mandela also emphasised the need for a single …
EventLocal elections in Townships
… 1980s, which attempted to co-opt Black leaders into the Apartheid system without sharing power, the government …
EventANC makes first submission to TRC
… of its record and strategy during its campaign against Apartheid. The document expressed the ANC's full support and …
EventMgqwetho,the first poem of Nontisi is published
… the role of rural people in the struggle against apartheid. Click here to read more about the arts in South …
EventPutin visits South Africa
… support from Moscow during its many years of fighting apartheid. …
EventTranskei announces it is re-establishing diplomatic relations with South Africa
… back to the late 1970s when Transkei demanded areas the apartheid government had designated as “white” to be part of …
EventThe Minister of Cooperation and Development, Dr. Piet Koornhof, announces the lifting of the ‘72-hour curfew’
… imposed on visiting blacks was one of the most hated apartheid laws. This curfew formed an integral part of …
EventGhanaian President Kwame Nkrumah calls on world leaders to impose “total economic and political sanctions” on South Africa
… leaders to impose sanctions on South Africa because of its Apartheid policies. African harbours were closed to the South …
EventA proposed amendment to the Population Registration Act is made
… of many other racially based laws. One of the apartheid laws passed in the 1950s was the Group Areas Act, …
EventTranskei’s first President, Paramount Chief Botha Sigcau, dies
… for the massacre because he was seen as supporting the apartheid government. This led to the uprising in Pondoland …
ArticleList of uMkhonto weSizwe Operations
… omissions and errors, due to censorship during the apartheid era and other difficulties in collecting … water and power supplies ??/06/85 Collaborators in…
Margaret Thatcher's role in SA's transformation by FW de Klerk, 5 December 2016
… world. As Prime Minister Michael Manley of Jamaica put it “Apartheid in South Africa and the relationship between the … presented an irresistible target: the…
ArchiveSpeech of the President of the ANC, Nelson Mandela to members of the British parliament House of Commons, London, 5 May 1993
… and the public at large has been with the issue of apartheid. This country has produced men and women whose … of programmes aimed at dismantling the system…
EventControversial 'Black Jesus' painter, Ronald Harrison, dies
… Christ, depicts Luthuli crucified on the cross next to apartheid mastermind Hendrick Verwoed and former Minister of … as Roman Soldiers. The painting not…
ArticleThe Roots of Segregation: 1860-1910
… status of labour. This labour was kept subservient through legislation and force, or the threat of such. Areas of …
Message to the People of South Africa on the 68th Anniversary of the ANC by O. R. Tambo, 8 January 1980
… activity of the masses of the people. The astounded apartheid regime, which thought it had pacified all of us by … Changes Even in the recent past, leading…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 68th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1980
… activity of the masses of the people. The astounded apartheid regime, which thought it had pacified all of us by … Changes Even in the recent past, leading…
O. R. Tambo Interviewed by RIXAKA, January 1985
… artists who, in their works, are fighting against the apartheid system with all its injustices. Foreign artists who support our cause should actively engage…
Interview with Oliver Tambo by Rixaka, 05 January 1985
… artists who, in their works, are fighting against the apartheid system with all its injustices. Foreign artists who support our cause should actively engage…
ArchiveSteve Fataar could have had a rock star ego but didn’t by Rafs Mayet, 24 January 2020
… hordes of screaming fans in a froth and the puritanical apartheid state increasingly worried over the effects four …
EventNRP leader, Vause Raw announces that his party is ready to give the President's Council a chance
… by the National Party (NP) in 1948, which then introduced Apartheid policy. He became the founding member and the … splintering after 1959 when MPs,…
Seedtimes Retrospective Omar Badsha
… and a way of seeing that challenged the established apartheid tropes. In the words of Professor Ari Sitas, …
ArchiveA mapping of the KwaZulu Natal political conflict with reference to Inkatha (1990-1993)
… many challenges whether under the then restrictive apartheid rule or under the new democratic rule. Because of …