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Address by President Nelson Mandela at the ANC’s manifesto launch 24 August 1995
… We turned our backs on the division and conflict of apartheid, and we set the nation irreversibly on the path of … for them. 3.2 The old local councils were…
ArchiveNew Deal? South Africa 1983
… Centre in Cape Town. It was a broad coalition of anti apartheid organizations that opposed the government's …
PlacePollsmoor Prison
… his release. Walter Sisulu and Ahmed Kathrada , both anti-apartheid activists, were also incarcerated at Pollsmoor and …
Turning Points Books 1-6
… by The Department of Education Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid commissioned by The Department of Education Book 6: …
EventInternational Labour Organisation excludes South Africa from its two-day meeting
… South Africa was faced with many challenges because of its apartheid policies. At one stage South African goods were …
EventZola Budd of SA and Mary Decker of the USA collide accidentally during the 3000m in the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics
… African, was competing under British citizenship due to apartheid laws in South Africa, and Decker,was representing …
EventFEDSAW Western Cape Region launched
… in the 1950s and conducted a massive campaign against apartheid laws, the pass laws in particular. FEDSAW was multi … on 29 August 1987’ , from South Africa…
EventNUSAS disbands
… to members of all races; and also called for the end of apartheid and all discriminatory policies. While the …
EventAlbert Luthuli delivers his Nobel Peace Prize Lecture
… for Peace. At the time, he was serving a ban under the apartheid government for his role as president of the ANC, …
EventHendrik Jacobus Coetsee is born
… He also held several ministerial positions in the Apartheid regime. In 1978 Coetsee was appointed Deputy …
EventThe Bantu Labour Regulations Amendment Bill becomes operative
… of workers were laid down. Due to various restrictions and apartheid still being imposed on labour unions, many Black …
EventHundreds of political prisoners began a hunger strike at Robben Island
… political unity among Black political prisoners opposed to Apartheid, as prisoners from political movements across the …
EventSouth Africa’s new constitution is approved
… was the embodiment of the vision of generations of anti-apartheid freedom fighters and democrats who had fought for …
EventGifted writer and actor William Modisane is born
… 1950s). Blame Me on History was an examination of what apartheid did to the character and self-esteem of the …
EventYusuf Dadoo, political activist, is born
… linked to the resistance of racial discrimination and apartheid. Dadoo was known by many for always forging closer …
EventSamora Machel pledges solidarity with the people of South Africa
… and was later executed when he refused to cooperate with apartheid security agencies and betray his comrades. …
EventHelen Zille, former leader of the Democratic Alliance, is born in Johannesburg
… Steve Biko. In the 1980s she joined the anti-Apartheid organisation the Black Sash . In the 1990s Zille …
Inqaba ya basebenzi
… resistance to the repressive National Government apartheid policies. Capitalism, socialism, imperialism and …
The National Arts Festival
… theatre and resistance art during the height of the apartheid era, and it still offers an opportunity for …
ArticleSouthern Methodist University Partnership Project - 2016 submissions
… about the region's sectarianism, she became interested in apartheid in South Africa as well as other aspects of the …
ArticleSignificance of the Congress of the People and the Freedom Charter
… of the Congress Alliance. It served as a vision of a post-apartheid South Africa, which was to be used as a mobilising …
EventPope John Paul II celebrates a papal mass in South Africa
… the country came seven years after the cleric angered the apartheid government when he refused to kiss the ground in … is to pay tribute to your own…
ArticleA tribute to a great struggle stalwart Paul David by Siva Naidoo
… This particular episode brought international exposure to apartheid. All were subsequently charged with high treason …
Interview with Oliver Tambo by Noticias, 05 August 1983, Maputo
… our actions in light of the continued intransigence of the apartheid regime and the brutality in the methods which it … is to wipe out the enemy forces, the…
PlaceClermont, a Township of Durban
… Clermont under the Apartheid days was a black middle income Township, in … able to buy property and build houses. Since the end of apartheid Clermont has…
SAHO Commemorates 40 Years Since Soweto Uprising: Intergenerational Dialogue by Sindile Moya
… the fear of guns. These tools were a major asset in the Apartheid regime to sow fear and disunity amongst the masses. … also all retails that were supporting…
PlaceSophiatown
… in Sophiatown. The National Party (NP), with their Apartheid system, realised that Johannesburg was growing and … naming the incident to encourage people to…
EventSouth Africa Freedom Day - 26 June 1950
… In 1950, the apartheid government introduced the Unlawful Organisations … It was this campaign that led to the consideration of apartheid by the United…
EventSA's Fifa membership reinstated
… policy on sport. Previous to this, in keeping with pre-apartheid segregation, leagues had been divided according to … unmoved by the growing international…
Doing Oral History
… lbe linked with relative ease to the workings of apartheid as covered in the classroom. Fact file on topic: … learners would get to grips with the workings…