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EventA consumer boycott is called in Boksburg
… Coloured residents, followed the reintroduction of petty apartheid measures by the Conservative Party (CP) controlled …
EventPolice detain Valli Moosa and Murphy Morobe in Port Elizabeth
… harshness of the state of emergency in force since 1985. Apartheid spy Vanessa Brereton in 2003 alleged that she had …
EventThe first hearing looking into the mysterious death of Samora Machel begins
… about the possibilities of the involvement of the apartheid government. The commission had subpoenaed several …
EventBreyten Breytenbach; SA poet, activist and painter, receives the Hertzog Prize for his poetry
… Sunday newspaper. Breytenbach was a committed opponent of apartheid and left South Africa in 1960, settling in Paris in …
EventIan Woodall and Cathy O’Dowd becomethe first official South African team to conquer the Mount Everest
… is thought to have died on his descent. Until the end of apartheid, South Africans had not been able to get a permit …
EventPrime Minister Verwoerd’s assassin transferred from prison to a mental asylum
… sentenced to spend his life in a mental institution. The apartheid government exploited a loophole in the law, by …
Freedom Part to Host Ken Oosterbroek Legacy Exhibition
… African photographers who captured the dying years of apartheid through their camera lenses. The four …
EventNelson Mandela and Walter Sisulu on Robben Island 5 August 1982
… was made public by the United Nations Centre Against Apartheid in New York. Mandela’s long-term incarceration …
EventJohnny Clegg, South African musician is born
… could not receive airplay because of censorship since the apartheid law forbade mixed music and mixed race public …
EventGeorge Pemba, artist and playwright is born in Port Elizabeth
… was viewed as inappropriate for a Black person during the Apartheid years. He, however, managed to make a good living …
EventMazisi Kunene, Zulu poet and ANC activist, is born
… of California in Los Angeles. He was banned by the apartheid government in 1966 and spent 30 years in exile, …
EventSophiatown residents are forcefully moved to Soweto
… forced removals were part of the government's countrywide apartheid plan to turn the residential and business areas of …
EventBritain proposes the sale of arms to South Africa
… helicopters to South Africa. Protests were led by the Anti-Apartheid Movement . …
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…
ArticleSouth Africa in the 1970s
… this dyer situation spawned a movement which forced the apartheid regime to the bargaining table. Richard Turner … ordered an investigation into wage levels…
Economic Transformation for a National Democratic Society by ANC, 20 December 2007, 52nd National Conference, Polokwane
… The symbiosis between political oppression and the apartheid capitalist system was so strong that, if decisive … economic subjugation and exclusion, the…
The ANC’s attempt to become the sole legitimate representative of the people of South Africa by Martin Plaut
… led by Abdul Minty, the honorary secretary of the Anti-Apartheid Movement, with whom the Labour Party had excellent … with the ANC and to represent the…
Country Divided in Black and White by Holland Cotter, 1 July 2010
… had instituted a national policy of racial segregation, or apartheid. Almost immediately, specific restrictions kicked … in contradictory ways: as shapers…
ArchiveMemories of Trafalgar High, District Six by Warren Ludski
… Not much of District 6 was left when the apartheid regime forced the residents out onto the grassless … of the history that goes with Trafalgar: its…
Draft Declaration by ANC, 20 December, 2012, 53rd ANC Annual Conference, Mangaung
… and searching debates on the persistence of the legacy of apartheid colonialism, reflected in the triple challenges of … boldly entering the second phase of…
ArticleKKNK – Klein Karoo Nasionale Kunstefees
… and indeed, defend, the place of Afrikaans culture in post-apartheid South Africa. Barrow was the chairman of the …
ArticleThe 52nd ANC National Conference - Polokwane 2007
… Zuma’s more populist style, evidenced by the singing of apartheid era struggle songs, stood in stark contrast to …
List of deaths in detention
… Detaining and imprisoning those who went against the Apartheid state was one of the many weapons that the …
Edwin Mofutsanyana the oldest Communist in Africa: Flyer for briefing by Edwin Mofutsanyana. August, 1991
… African regional differences have been fostered by the apartheid system. Irrespective of whether they arise from ethnic factors or vested interests nurtured…
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…
The Durban Strikes of 1973 and the End of a Cycle of Struggle by Mondli Hlatshwayo
… structures and trade unions that sought to challenge apartheid and the cheap labour system. Shop stewards, … political and social force in the union movement…
Gigs, hustles and hope: work for young South Africans beyond the wage by Adam Cooper and Bernard Dubbeld
… meaningful livelihoods. The case studies traverse the post-apartheid generation, exploring privileged “gamers”, the … The case studies illuminate relations…
Nelson Mandela’s address to rally in Durban 25 February 1990
… desperately and urgently needed in this region. In Natal, apartheid is a deadly cancer in our midst, setting house … reaffirm a single united stand against…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the Occasion of the 107th Anniversary of the African National Congress presented by ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa, 12 January 2019
… or use public resources for their own selfish gains. Legislation and regulations already exist to prevent public … our principled approach on non-racialism…
The values of David Goldblatt by Zachary Rosen,13 June 2017
… approach to the documenting of declining mining towns, Apartheid-era Afrikaner communities, suburban Johannesburg … to politics comes under scrutiny,…