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EventWiehahn Commission Report tabled in parliament
… unions were still required to register with the state. The apartheid government used this registration process as a tool …
EventArthur Elias Letele, medical doctor and prominent ANC leader who went into exile in Basutoland, dies
… in 1952, Letele persuaded a number of volunteers to defy apartheid laws, and this led to his first arrest. Later in …
EventIngrid Jonker, SA poet, commits suicide.
… of the parliamentary committee responsible for the apartheid system of censorship. In April 2004, Jonker was …
EventNelson Mandela condemns the Lockerbie bombing, the first mass killing of Americans by terrorists
… of the 1988 bombing in 1991. In 1997, after the fall of apartheid, Nelson Mandela, accompanied by Graça Machel and …
EventThe Dutch Reformed Church decides that Afrikaans may be used alongside Dutch during services
… here to read more about the Dutch Reformed Church and Apartheid. …
EventMohandas K. Gandhi is arrested as he leads a march of Indian miners in South Africa
… was drawn on significantly during the fight against apartheid. The Defiance Campaign in 1952 can be seen as an …
PlaceCity Hall, Cape Town
… majority of South Africa, black and white, recognise that apartheid has no future,’ Mandela said. ‘Our march to freedom …
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…
Statement of the ANC Veterans League Inaugural National Conference, 6 December 2009
… by many veterans throughout their struggle against apartheid. Believing that the elderly must play their role in … to reverse the inequalities brought about…
Congress of the People - I was there
… for the liberation of their country from the yoke of apartheid. In the Freedom Charter they set out the details of … - demands which cannot be fun filled…
Address of Nelson Mandela, President of the African National Congress on Receiving an Honorary LLD Degree at the University of Fort Hare 9 May 1992
… or into ever-increasing violence the fruits of years of apartheid. Either the people govern, establish a truly … we consent to the continued rule of those…
88. Gandhi’s legacy
… of the state in South Africa to smother criticism of apartheid and stifle protest against injustice is to label … This absurd fear of democracy is the solid…
PlaceOliver Tambo District Municipality
… 1917 – 24 April 1993), who was a South African anti-apartheid politician and revolutionary who served as … Districts, the Homeland of the Xhosa during the…
EventMinister of Defence, PW Botha discloses that South Africa's northern borders are protected by a radar early warning system
… of advanced radar and navigation equipment emphasized Apartheid South Africa's military might, especially to those …
David Goldblatt: Intersections by Matt Damsker
… identification with the white oppressors who perpetuated apartheid for so long, but his photography doesn't stoop to … seems to suit Goldblatt's recent…
PlaceDiepkloof, Soweto
… male migrant workers. These Hostels were Built by the Apartheid government to provide basic shelter in the form of … has only 3% of the City’s retail space…
ArchiveGetting to know Omar from the inside out by Robyn Sassen, February 19, 2019
… the co-founders of Afrapix — a collective agency of anti-apartheid photographers, both professional and amateur — in … deeply interfaced with the terrible…
Fifty Fighting Years by A. Lerumo. The Communist Party of South Africa, 1921 - 1971 - Foreword to Book, by Dr Yusuf M. Dadoo,1972
… of India have in the outrageous doctrine and practices of apartheid and of their desire to help in every possible way … to be done. Despite every resolution…
Address by President Nelson Mandela to the interfaith commissioning service for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Cape Town, 13 February 1996
… lasting reconciliation. South Africa's transition from apartheid has seen the accomplishment of one step after … another that sceptics judged impossible. The…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at a Luncheon hosted by Prime Minister Tomichi Murayama Tokyo, 5 July 1995
… Japan gave to us in the struggle to free ourselves from apartheid is remembered with gratitude by our people. Our … when South Africa has become a democracy…
Mandela and his three wives - Evelyn, Winnie and Graca by Sapa-AFP, 6 December 2013
… became a liability for Mandela and the anti-apartheid movement. In 1986, at a time when suspected … died in an air crash many believe was orchestrated by the…
PlaceUmlazi
… Group Areas Act in Durban townships In the 1940s, when the Apartheid policy came into existence, Black South Africans … forced removals, most notably in Cato…
PlaceKwaMashu
… townships that emerged with the implementation of the Apartheid Group Areas Act during the 1950s. The Group Areas Act was a system used by the Apartheid…
Exploring Student-Worker Alliance: the role of COSAS in trade unions, 1979-1985 by Noor Nieftagodien
… time, mobilised a regional general strike to pressure the apartheid government to accede to students’ demands, among … and was arguably a major turning point…
PlaceMasiphumelele Township, Cape Town
… today the huge Longbeach shopping mall is located. Under Apartheid laws these families were repeatedly chased away by … and again to move back to their…
PlaceAtlantis
… as a “model industrial node”, within the framework of Apartheid spatial Development Policies. These policies were … was developed for people designated as …
Re-emergence of resistance, 1980-89
… as the most effective force in the fight against apartheid throughout the country. With the launch of the … the country was entering a new period that would…
ArticleThe death of Samora Machel
… about the possibilities of the involvement of the apartheid government. Of thirty-four people on board only … (TRC) investigation Following the demise of…
ArticleThe Pietermaritzburg Treason Trial, 1984
… deny making speeches where they expressed opposition to apartheid, specific speeches were made by specific people in … it was not against the people because…
ArticleAbstracts presented for the 1973 Durban Strikes Conference
… the KwaZulu regime, 1972-75 by David Hemson 1973: Neo-apartheid and the Sleeping the Giant by Mbuso Nkosi The …