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2004 Gruber Justice Prize: Arthur Chaskalson
… he represented defendants against South Africa's apartheid government, including the infamous Rivonia Trial of … the legal process, by challenging the…
EventThe National President of the Black People's Convention, Kenneth Hlaku Rachidi, declares that riots have lead to a new era of political consciousness
… with Youth Day, was the result of increasing opposition to apartheid amongst the black youth of South Africa. In particular, students were protesting against…
EventBheki Mlangeni, ANC human rights lawyer of Soweto, is killed by a walkman bomb meant for Dirk Coetzee.
… at Vlakplaas . The unit carried out assassinations of anti-apartheid activists. Coetzee himself was the first commander … A Crime Against Humanity: analysing…
EventDutch Foreign Minister Luns is asked by the Johannesburg
… they call "irresponsible" utterances against the Union's apartheid laws and first to see that Holland "casts the beam …
EventLaurie Bloomfield takes picture of rioting in Cato Manor, Durban
… published around the world. The riots were sparked by the apartheid government's attempt to forcibly remove black …
EventCheryl Carolus is born
… National Congress (ANC) delegation that met with the Apartheid government. References: Wallis, F. (2000). …
EventPretoria receives city status
… of many dramatic incidents, Pretoria was the place where apartheid was actually administered from. …
EventMoses Kotane, the South African Communist Party and African National Congress stalwart dies in Moscow
… political leaders of the time Kotane was harassed by the Apartheid government agencies and repressive legislations. He …
EventBram Fischer is sentenced to life imprisonment
… to life imprisonment for his political activities against apartheid and twenty-four years for being a member of the …
EventClarence Makwetu announces the PAC’s suspension of its armed struggle
… armed hostilities between the liberation movement and the Apartheid government. … Anon, (2005) 'Anti-Apartheid Struggle' from Global Security , 07 April, …
EventOliver Tambo returns from exile
… of the armed struggle and guerrilla campaigns against apartheid. When ANC President Chief Albert Luthuli died in …
EventThe Harms Commission officially restricts investigations into South African security force
… for instance to the investigation into the murder of anti-apartheid activist David Webster , which could therefore not …
EventGeneral Lothar Neethling sues Vrye Weekblad and the Weekly Mail
… Neethling has supplied him with toxin to be used on anti-apartheid activists. Justice Johan Kriegler ruled in favour …
EventRiots erupt in Soweto
… Blacks rejected Black Community Councils as puppets of the apartheid government. Twelve people were reported dead and …
Event46664 concert is held in Fancourt
… of South African president Nelson Mandela during the apartheid era, was staged at the exclusive golf resort of …
EventDe Klerk resigns as NP leader
… difficulty due to infighting over its role in post-apartheid South Africa. De Klerk’s withdrawal from the …
EventNkosi Sikelel’iAfrica composer, Enoch Sontonga dies
… the erection of a memorial to Sontonga on the first post-apartheid Heritage Day. On 18 April 2005 the Johannesburg …
EventDennis Brutus is born
… and French ancestry, was classified as Coloured under apartheid laws. In the 1960’s he joined the Anti-Coloured …
EventThe UN requests States to terminate restrictions on economic relations with South Africa with immediate effect
… West Africa (now Namibia) and the UN's opposition against Apartheid. …
EventSecurity officials report that levels of political violence have dropped significantly in SA
… (ANC), the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) and other anti-apartheid organisations. The extreme right reacted with anger …
EventRecord of Understanding is agreed to by the SA government and the ANC
… regarded the killings as nothing but an indictment on the apartheid government. …
January 8th Statements -Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 70th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1982
… been before to carry our historic mission to destroy the apartheid monster and realise the goal of total liberation of … and experience and now pose a real…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 81st Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January, 1993
… without acknowledgement by the architects of apartheid and by all other South Africans of the wrongs they … victim, are reaping the whirlwind of the…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the Occasion of the 106th Anniversary of the African National Congress presented by ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa, 13 January 2018
… 95 years since the Native Urban Areas Act, two pieces of legislation that were central to the deprivation of black … for having the courage to take up arms…
ArchiveThe Women’s Jail at the Old Fort and its Impact by Claire Ennis
… [1] In an ironic way, it echoed its inhabitants during apartheid. Just as they were dragged from their jobs, … in greater numbers as more women joined the…
The 1994 South African Election by Phyllis Jordan
… find the answer, we must look at the development of the “apartheid economy”. When the National Party came to power in … Afrikaner dominance in these two…
EventBlack Wednesday, the banning of 19 Black Consciousness Movement Organisations
… Internal Security Act in Modderbee Prison. Further, the apartheid regime declared illegal 19 Black Consciousness … Act. This move was done in terms of…
Keynote address on the launch of Mafika Gwala’s Collected Poems Howard College, UKZN, 6 October 2016 by Mandla Langa
… Group Areas Act was passed in 1950, a singular piece of legislation that had the deepest of impact on the lives of … he wrote, making known his concerns of…
ANC pays tribute to the late Arthur Goldreich, 26 May 2011
… white South African but bore the pain of fighting against apartheid. As the member of the ANC and Umkhonto Wesizwe he …
ANC statement on the passing of Epainette Mbeki, 7 June 2014
… of activism and her contribution in the struggle against apartheid. Mrs Mbeki has for decades been a pillar of the …