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Introductory Statement on the Presentation of the Statement of the National Executive Committee of the ANC on the 79th Anniversary of the ANC by O. R. Tambo, 8 January 1991
… the masses of our people, both black and white, to end the apartheid crime against humanity, the common enemy of our …
Notes on the Life of Ernest Cole 1940–1990 by Gunilla Knape
… recognition as a major voice in the struggle against apartheid and as an original photographic artist. He was a …
EventPresident F.W. de Klerk announces Whites-only referendum results
… referendum were hailed worldwide and signalled the end of Apartheid in South Africa. The Netherlands' Prime Minister …
EventGeneral Law Amendment Act No 37 is approved
… Since detention without trial was first introduced in apartheid South Africa more than sixty people have died while …
EventThe first Boeing 707 jet aircraft arrives in South Africa
… sanctions were employed against South Africa during apartheid, particularly with regard to the availability of …
Event”Ghetto Act” or The Asiatic Land Tenure and Indian Representation Act No 28 of 1946 is passed
… to work together for an end to the denial of rights by the Apartheid state. …
EventPrime Minister, B.J.Vorster, states that South Africa is still committed to granting independence to Namibia before the end of 1978
… Nations. Further, in 1969, South Africa began imposing its Apartheid policies on the citizens of South West Africa. This …
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 …
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…
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…
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…
EventFormer South African football coach Clive Barker is born
… title after the team was reinstated after a ban due to Apartheid . …
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…
Statement at the 2053rd meeting of the Security Council by Mfanafuthi Johnstone (Johnny) Makatini, 9 December 1977
… eve of what we believe will be declared International Anti-Apartheid Year by the General Assembly at its thirty-second … this morning. And as we approach…