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EventJohn Lawrence, Winnie Mandela’s bodyguard, dies after a shoot
… A Crime Against Humanity: analysing the repression of the apartheid state. Johannesburg: Human Rights Committee. Winnie …
EventAmy Biehl is murdered in Cape Town
… South Africa struggled to be born in the dying moments of apartheid. Through her, our peoples have also shared the pain …
EventA meeting titled “Conference for Concerned South Africans” is held, bringing together homeland leaders and conservative Afrikaner parties.
… support him should the ANC try to enter the Ciskei. These apartheid puppets were more vocal when Treurnicht promised …
EventAdriaan Vlok, Minister of Law and Order, announces a ban on the carrying of pangas, bush knives and axes weapons in “conflict situations”
… weapons" by Vlok was considered proof by the ANC that the Apartheid government to a large extent was fuelling the …
EventStompie Seipei’s murderer goes to jail
… political mobilisation of township youths to stand against apartheid. Jerry Richardson abducted Seipei and three other …
EventAn ANC car bomb directed at the headquarters of the Wits Command, Johannesburg, kills one person and injures 68
… the attack on the army headquarters was in response to the apartheid government deploying troops in the townships to …
EventBessie Amelia Head, SA novelist dies
… a White woman and a Black unnamed father. Due to the apartheid policies of the day, her parents were not allowed …
EventAfrikaans is declared an official language of South Africa
… of Afrikaans and its subsequent endorsement by the Apartheid government, have their roots in the attempted …
EventKing George VI is born
… Nationalist Party (NP), making way for the introduction of Apartheid. Princess Elizabeth who later became the Queen …
EventSouth Africa signs SADC treaty
… Lesotho, Angola and Zimbabwe. Due to its policy of apartheid, South Africa was excluded from any talks on …
EventSix Treason Trialists miss resumption of trial
… Trial dates back on 5 December 1956, when about 156 anti-apartheid activists were arrested in South Africa and accused …
The Segregation Fallacy and Other Papers - The Disfranchisement of the Cape Native
… that produced this clause was without doubt illiberal, un-Christian and subversive of all that is best in British … all urging the South African delegation…
ArchiveChapter 6 Underground in Joburg by Denis Goldberg
… Police, the infamous BJ Vorster, later the President of apartheid South Africa, promised that people could be held in … with a slogan: “I gave out a leaflet”…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the Commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of 1956 Women’s March: Union Buildings, Tshwane, 9 August 2006
… further impetus to the struggle for our liberation from apartheid. We have also gathered here to salute the millions … ourselves to the pledge we made as we…
Document 18 - The Pretoria Minute
… of the Congress Alliance. It served as a vision of a post-apartheid South Africa, which was to be used as a mobilising … to express his/her views on the…
Eye of the Needle - Chapter 1 - The Necessity of Utopian Thinking
… by simplifying divorce laws or legislating against trade unions. But the great core institutions remain essentially …
Regarding the white male gaze in South African photography by Daniel Gallan, 14 Jun 2017
… is “complicit, like all white South Africans [during apartheid] who never really looked at the consequences of … Goldblatt.” It was only after “moving away…
South Africa’s armed struggle: where the ANC’s ineptitude was a virtue by Howard Barrell (The Conversation), 10 July 2016, University of Pretoria
… the political imagination to reach an accommodation with apartheid’s masters who were, militarily, more powerful than … inside the country that were most…
Address by President Nelson Mandela opening the morals summit called by the National Religious Leaders’Forum Johannesburg, 22 October 1998
… eroded respect for one another and for life itself. That apartheid was a sin and encouraged sinful behaviour is no … for freedom have also proved corrupt…
Address by President Mandela on Heritage Day Robben Island, 24 September 1997
… are striking out in a new direction. During colonial and apartheid times, our museums and monuments reflected the … and warp the minds of the perpetrators…
Address by President Nelson Mandela to the 1995 National Conference of IDASA Cape Town, 18 August 1995
… of an era of hope and promises. The special abuses under apartheid laws which the Coloured community suffered - Group … of our communities, damaged by the…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1950s
… calls for a broad anti-nationalist front to oppose anti-apartheid laws such as the Group Areas Act . May, Sam Kahn … Nations declares, "a policy of 'racial…
ArchiveChapter 19 Last thoughts – for now by Denis Goldberg
… general come to realize that there is no going back to the apartheid past and though older people find it difficult to … which inherited a technically…
EventAllan Boesak's plea for the acquittal on fraud charges is rejected and the case is postponed to the following year
… this platform to speak out against the policies of the apartheid government. Boesak was also instrumental in … Democratic Front (UDF), which was one of the…
National Arts Festival 2017
… for political and protest theatre during the height of the apartheid era, and it still offers an opportunity for …
EventSandra Smith is the last woman to be executed in South Africa
… including infamous serial killer Daisy de Melker. The Apartheid years saw a steady increase in the number of people …
Zuma to grow ANC membership in tribute to Madiba, 17 July 2011
… Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) was arrested during the height of apartheid. Comrade Zuma will also be paying tribute to the …
EventThabo Mbeki, former President of SA, is born in Idutywa, Transkei
… in economics at Sussex University. During the years of apartheid, he played a major role in turning the …
EventDr. Hendrik Verwoerd announces his plan to grant Transkei independence
… Transkei , a homeland proposed for Xhosa people under the apartheid policy of separate development. The Transkei was to …
EventSeretse Khama is re-united with his British wife
… of Mixed Marriages Act, Act No 55 of 1949 enacted by the apartheid government. The Act forbade marriages between …