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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…
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…
ArticleHistory of Women’s Struggle in South Africa
… in her book, A Place in the City: The Rand on the Eve of Apartheid, describes how Afrikaans women formed 'wives clubs' … white governments now hardened into…
ArticleFreedom Day: 27 April
… people, deaths in detentions, hangings of those opposed to apartheid, imprisonment, exile, massacres, assassinations, …
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 …
ArchiveCHAPTER 2 - You only win once by Howard Barrell
… Africa, legal and semi-legal political activity against apartheid among black people at large re-emerged following … (PAC) achieved ‘observer status’ at the…
EventTumi Molekane, the South African hip hop artist and poet is born
… of his birth his parents were living in exile due to the Apartheid regime. However in 1992, he was repatriated as a …
EventTumi Molekane, the South African hip hop artist and poet is born
… of his birth his parents were living in exile due to the Apartheid regime. However in 1992, he was repatriated as a …
PlaceOriental Plaza, Fordsburg, Johannesburg
… of Fietas were forced to vacate their shops under the apartheid government’s Group Areas Act. Those who could …
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer
… The 1946 Campaign was seminal in the gestation of the anti-apartheid front, at home and abroad. it was the forerunner to …
EventSouth African poet, writer and political activist, Mafika Pascal Gwala is born in Durban.
… He used his writings to speak out against the injustice of apartheid. He served in the Black consciousness …
EventPresident P. W. Botha offers Nelson Mandela conditional release from prison
… a South African government spokesperson stated that the apartheid regime would be prepared to negotiate with the ANC …
EventP.W. Botha becomes Prime Minister
… the country onto reformist paths and away from the racial "apartheid" (separation), which had been an article of faith …
EventBeatles records are banned by the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC), due to John Lennon’s previous ‘Jesus’ comments
… to play their songs and concerts were cancelled. In apartheid South Africa the South African Broadcasting …
EventThe new ochre-red, white and green tri-colour of the Transkei is adopted
… were created. The 'separate development' policies (Apartheid) of H.F. Verwoerd resulted in the 'awarding' of …
EventZulu King Zwelithini threatens to establish a separate Zulu state
… the period leading to and during negotiations for a post apartheid settlement. A month before King Zwelithini's … non, (n.d.), 'The History of Apartheid…
EventDr. Federik Van Zyl Slabbert leads delegation to meet ANC
… government however saw it as a betrayal not only of the apartheid state, but also of Afrikanerdom. The ANC delegation …
EventNelson Mandela celebrates 88 th birthday
… have kicked off with a new round of honours for this anti-apartheid icon, including a photo exhibit and the release of …
PlaceRed Location Museum
… settled. It became a site of struggle during the years of Apartheid. Many prominent Political and Cultural leaders were … Displays of Apartheid History and…
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 …
Archive2020 - President Ramaphosa, State of the Nation Address, 13 February 2020
… His Excellency Roger Nkodo Dang, United Nations (UN) South Africa Representative, Ms Anne Githuku-Shongwe, … to join me in imagining a new smart-city, a…
Extract from a speech made at Bethlehem on 2 September
… blamed squarely on the State of India. Take a look at the UN's stocks. Who caused this stir in the UN for the first time? None other than India. 11 Who…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 1 The Mughal Empire
… the most influential women from the Moghul Empire is Meher-un-Nissa (commonly known as Nur Jahan), the wife of Jahangir …
“Human beings with Souls”: Reconsidering The Durban Strikes Pamphlet by Alex Lichtenstein
… Rick Halpern, of Margaret Bourke-White and the Dawn of Apartheid (2017), based on a photography exhibited he curated … focuses on the history of Black trade…
III - Black Consciousness
… existence was regarded as threatening the stability of the apartheid state, and the state turned the formidable strength … 1970's with the aim of uniting…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, to the Joint Session of the Parliament of Namibia, Windhoek, Namibia, 30 October 2007
… whom we engaged in a common titanic struggle to defeat the apartheid crime against humanity, which represented itself … by the struggle against imperialism,…
Hendrik Verwoerd: 10 quotes by Hendrik Verwoerd (Politics Web), 20 September 2016
… Town. In his biography of the man Verwoerd: Architect of Apartheid Henry Kenney noted that Verwoerd had a “dominating … (something he was not able to put in…