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ArticleLives of Courage
… of the Liberation Struggle only began in earnest after 1994 with the establishment of the new democratic government … South Africans and members of the…
ArticleMangosuthu Buthelezi was a man of immense political talent and contradictions
… an anomalous position within the politics of the anti-apartheid struggle. He brokered Zulu ethnic nationalism, … that endured. A younger Mangosuthu Buthelezi…
Conference: One Hundred Years of the ANC - Debating Liberation Histories and Democracy Today
… struggle have now become bound to the questions of post-apartheid politics and the ideology of state power. … equality and social justice in the present…
ArticleThe Black Sash: A History of Transformation
… human rights atrocities throughout South Africa during apartheid and beyond. This essay examines the Black Sash … and ending with the reestablishment of 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 … After South Africa's first democratic election in…
ArchiveOpening Address at the Omar Badsha Photographic exhibition by Jakes Gerwel, September 2001
… hopefully not offend.) In the spirit of reconciliation post-Kempton Park and April 1994, there was a quest for inclusiveness also in the public … the racial…
Biography of Lefifi Tladi by Paul Linck
… singer that went into exile in South Africa because of apartheid. This is the biographical portion of the paper. At … both good and bad. Tladi also provides…
EventZulu King Zwelithini threatens to establish a separate Zulu state
… On 14 February 1994 Zulu King, Goodwill Zwelithini told President F.W. de … IFP in the period leading to and during negotiations for a post apartheid…
ArticleFrontline States
… The collapse of apartheid and the advent of democracy in South Africa was … were formed in 1970 to co-ordinate their responses to apartheid and formulate a…
ArticleAfrikaner Broederbond
… state president in South Africa from 1948 to the end of Apartheid in 1994 was a member of the Afrikaner Broederbond . Once [the … power and were opposed to a…
EventPenny Heyns, South African swimming star, is born.
… She was also a member of the South African squad at the 1994 Commonwealth Games, where she won a bronze medal in the … The achievement also marked her as…
EventMandela reshuffles the cabinet
… minister, Chris Liebenberg, to relinquish his cabinet post for private reasons, president Nelson Mandela announced … from the private sector when he joined…
Nelson Mandela Timeline 1920-1929
… open spaces and with separate access roads” (Christopher, 1994: 38) The Black (Native) Affairs Act is Passed. The … committee member of the SACP, MK Chief of…
Gertrude Fester Biography by Nehal Patel
… women’s organisations and a member of parliament from 1994 to 1999. Today, she lectures over women’s rights all … born on 4 July 1952, in the fourth year of…
Remembering the enslaved in Cape Town by Sam North
… than this. Slavery is a history which until the fall of apartheid in 1994 remained largely forgotten in public memory. Efforts to … slavery was neglected as…
ArticleBureau of State Security (BOSS)
… the secret death squad was responsible for maintaining apartheid by carrying out a series of assassinations of … attaching an explosive device to the inside…
ArticleThe Drafting and Acceptance of the Constitution
… government would govern after the elections on 27 April 1994. The MPNP drew up the Interim Constitution which was to … of the political system, was radically…
ArticleRace and ethnicity in South Africa
… explosive idea during colonization, as well as during the Apartheid period which begun in 1948. Race is defined as a … distinct and similar physical…
ArticleTutu and his role in the Truth & Reconciliation Commission
… experienced numerous human rights challenges during the apartheid era. The White-dominated government committed … The lack of racial harmony in the country…
ArchiveThe Way History is taught in South Africa is ahistorical, – and that’s a problem by Natasha Robinson (theconversation.com), 7 June 2018
… team isn’t unique in its position. It draws on decades of post-conflict literature which has argued that history … It explores some of the turning points in…
Event1300 Volkswagen workers dismissed for unprocedural strike against NUMSA leadership
… it was possibly the first major example of workers, after 1994, striking not just outside of the auspices of their … 2000 Volkswagen Strike, and the…
Origins: Formation, Sharpeville and banning, 1959-1960
… Tiyo Siga, in the 19th century. During the 1950's, the apartheid government was continually introducing new means to … from the PAC. Increased activity after…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1990-1999
… the South African Communist Party (SACP) and other anti-apartheid organisations, the suspension of the death sentence … eightieth anniversary celebration,…
ArticleHistory of the Rape Crisis Trust in Cape Town
… the following year (Russell, 1989; Maconachie and van Zyl, 1994). Two years later Gabby Marcus, a RCCT counsellor moved … violence services of the time were…
Dealing with the past and facing the future
… no evil that has been as condemned by the entire world as Apartheid." - Source: Sunday Independent, December 6, 1998. A … that includes guidance for teachers…
ArticleHistory of Africa Day - 25 May
… attend as the organisation as it was prevented by the apartheid government from doing so. However, a memorandum was … the ANC and PAC received support in the…
ArticleDecember 16, the reflection of a changing South African heritage
… of Reconciliation After the first democratic elections in 1994, December 16 continued to form part of the history of post apartheid South Africa. On 16…
ArticleThabo Mbeki (1942 - ) Timeline
… delegation of the United Nations Special Committee against apartheid. The statement is directed at the Apartheid … of a United, Democratic and Non-Racial…
ArchiveHistory for the Future by Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Mpilo Tutu
… movements, civil society, the internal opposition and the apartheid government that led to the first democratic elections of 1994. The TRC was created by an…
South African Constitution 1996
… organisations. The constitutional assembly sat between May 1994 and October 1996 drafting and completing the new … was the embodiment of the vision of…