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EventSixty ANC refugees are airlifted out of Lesotho
… by Maj-Gen Metsing Lekhanya who had been in talks with the apartheid government in South Africa seized power. The …
EventANC President, Oliver Tambo, denies that the ANC is in secret negotiations with the South African government
… Senegal in July, 1987 under strong opposition by the apartheid government. In an effort to reduce state …
EventSouth Africa and Lesotho establish a consultative committee to resolve border disputes
… criticised the South African government's policy of apartheid while declaring his support for the African …
EventThe University of South Africa is officially opened, replacing the University of the Cape of Good Hope.
… only University that remained multiracial throughout the apartheid years, largely due to it being a distance education …
EventA British Sports Council team begins a three-week fact-finding tour of South Africa to probe racial discrimination in sport
… 18th Olympic Games in Tokyo over its refusal to condemn apartheid. This came after the committee gave SANOC one last …
EventSeveral leading members of trade unions affiliated to the UDF are arrested
… In an attempt to prevent further unrest, the apartheid government arrested several leading members of …
A Place of Freedom
… in the early years of the twentieth century to full-blown apartheid in the 1950s. In 1920 Manilal confessed to a …
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…
An evolution of Worker Education in South Africa since 1973 and its impact on Worker Movement by John Mhandu
… and the negotiated compromise between the ANC and the apartheid State resulted in changes to worker education in … in various historical epochs, that is,…
Archive2022 - President Ramaphosa, State of the Nation Address, 10 February 2022
… other measures under the National Health Act and other legislation to contain the pandemic. Nearly all restrictions … within 90 days during the next…
EventThe founding member of United Democratic Front and struggle activist Johnny Issel dies
… matric, he became actively involved in the East Rand anti apartheid Labour party, contesting for the Coloured … the liberation struggle of South Africa to…
Article“The Dark and Heavy Shadow”: Gender Based Violence and Anti-Gender-Based-Violence Campaigns in South Africa
… a broader movement, #TotalShutdown, which aims to change legislation concerning violence against women in order to …
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…
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…
This doccie about a SA photographer is worth the watch by Garreth Van Niekerk (channel24), 28 May 2017
… angry ANC members, all the way to his landmark images of apartheid crimes, Afrikaner identity, the tenuous landscapes … a horrifying retrospective of the…
Joint Statement by Chief Albert Lutuli, Dr. G.M. Naicker and Peter Brown appealing to the British People to Boycott South Africa, 5 December 1959
… a period of one month. The boycott is a protest against apartheid, the removal of political rights, the colour bar in … realise that the world outside will…
Appeal For United Front, July 1948
… ever would be taken to fight their case. The Nationalists` apartheid policy for the Indians was the logical outcome of … not make their intentions clear, the…
Steve Biko revisited by Tim Crowe (Politics Web), 21 June 2016
… politically and culturally aware. The Apartheid regime initially chose not to target him/BCM … entities, which inadvertently made them vulnerable to…
Oliver Tambo, October 1987
… of the need for a united and multi-racial struggle against apartheid tyranny. After extensive discussions and … been re-established and secured. Mass…
Address by Deputy President Jacob Zuma at the 40th Anniversary of the Execution of Vuyisile Mini and five others, 6 November 2004
… Their execution 40 years ago at the hands of the brutal apartheid hangmen, was a turning point for the people and the … the ANC had undertaken to free…
86. Non-racial sport
… completely unrelated to other facets of [our] existence'. Apartheid, it argues, must go before there can be such a … Union have remained insensitive to the…
Postscript
… Democratic Front slogan splashed across it, "UDF unites, apartheid divides". I thought that to that great crowd she … State President Botha to renounce…
District Six, Cape Town
… for ‘canal’.) District Six before its destruction under Apartheid , was a community representative of diversity on a … the port. It represented the polar…
O. R. Tambo Interviewed by Anthony Heard, October 1985
… the struggle to get rid of the tensions that come with the apartheid system. We have hoped that we could together build … among the whites. We were uniting…
EventPolice constable is buried alive at Ackerville cemetery near Witbank
… of security forces were targets of attacks by anti -apartheid militants in the political struggle. The killers of …
EventDr Frederik van Zyl Slabbert resigns from parliament
… Slabbert, a staunch opponent of 'separate development' (Apartheid) and leader of the opposition Progressive Federal …
EventHuman Rights Day is celebrated for the first time in South Africa
… as well as other innumerable acts of violence under Apartheid, are what inspired South Africa's famously …
PlaceMandela House
… Soweto was an important location of the struggle, against apartheid, and Mandela's house seems an appropriate site for … Soweto was an important location of…