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ADDRESS BY PRESIDENT NELSON MANDELA ON RECEIVING THE FREEDOM OF PIETERMARITZBURG Pietermaritzburg, 25 April 1997
… in building democracy, peace and unity upon the ashes of apartheid. Pietermaritzburg has produced more than its fair … honoured graduates of Robben Island…
ArchiveSurvey shows ignorance about big moments in South Africa’s history – like the Sharpeville massacre (TheConversation.com)
… document, known as a “dompas” (dumb pass), that the apartheid regime forced black people to carry, and which … a way of remembering the egregious human…
Some of Gandhi’s Early Views on Africans Were Racist. But That Was Before He Became Mahatma by E.S Reddy (The Wire), 18 October 2016
… praised Gandhi’s contribution to their liberation from apartheid and for the “miracle” of peaceful transition. In a … that had been spawned by the abhorrent…
Freedom In Our Life Time - Congress Youth League Activities
… should be secure and unassailable. A hurried glance at legislation passed by the Trustees for the African during the … last century and now containing such…
Message to the Seventh Congress of the South African Communist Party by O. R. Tambo, April 1989
… - its strategy remains oriented to the survival of the apartheid system of domination and exploitation. Central to … attitudes towards the regime and its…
Cecil John Rhodes, warts and all by Tim Crowe (Politics Web), 22 December 2015
… the political/legal foundations of what culminated in the Apartheid regime. His ambition for an Africa be believed was … (1931) U.S. Secretary of State Bram…
Address At The Commerce Faculty Graduation Ceremony(Media friendly) by Saleem Badat, 10 April 2015, Rhodes University
… and their meanings in a society that must overcome its apartheid past and ensure human rights and justice for all. … social, linguistic, cultural, or…
Everyone must take responsibility, 21 August, 2012 - Sahra Ryklief
… be no less acceptable to us today than they were when the apartheid government claimed this as the force behind the anti-apartheid and labour movements of 30…
Address at the National Youth Day Celebrations, 16 June 2002
… of South Africans could free ourselves from the yoke of apartheid, establish a new democratic order and live together … those who died at the prime of their…
The role of Cecil John Rhodes' British South African Company in the Conquest of Matabeleland
… changing the constitution. Unsurprisingly they abandoned legislation that protected ‘Black Africans’ and passed …
PlaceMofolo Arts Centre
… artists a chance to showcase their works during the Apartheid era. In its prime during the 1970s and 80s, the …
PlaceBotshabelo
… Lutheran Church in Southern Africa. In 1979, the apartheid government of South Africa set up a township in the …
`We will come back with Msholozi`- erupts Pondoland, 12 December 2008
… They are the ones who started the armed struggle to topple apartheid. We remember the Pondo revolt in 1960 at Ngquza. …
EventOn 17th November 1921 Professor Richard van der Ross was born in Plumstead, Cape Town
… this period he also became actively involved in the anti-Apartheid protests, after he was forcefully removed from …
ArchiveAcceptance of Amnesty International Ambassador of Conscience Award, by Nelson Mandela, 1 November 2006
… for the forgotten prisoners of poverty. Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is people who have made …
Giyani, Polokwane
… Black pharmacist set up shop here during the years of apartheid. Because of where Giyani finds itself …
EventAnti-SAIC political rally ends in Lenasia
… in which the South African Indian Council (SAIC), an apartheid-created body established in 1968 as the Indian …
Address by President Nelson Mandela on the occasion of the president’s budget debate in the Senate 18 June 1996
… as a condition for freedom and peace. The struggle against apartheid was an act of building unity amongst the oppressed …
EventFidel Castro, president of Cuba from 1976 to 2008, is born
… African continent served to encourage the fight against apartheid in South Africa. *Please note that some sources are …
EventAZAPO is re-launched in Roodepoort
… The organization saw the capitalist system rather than apartheid as the main oppressing force in South Africa and …
EventANC celebrates its 79th anniversary in Durban
… mounted on the South African government to dismantle apartheid, and township protests erupted in the 1980s, the …
EventMzwakhe Mbuli is sentenced to 13 years in jail
… content of his poetry. He covered issues like drugs and Apartheid and the former government banned his work, forcing …
EventSouth Africa completes destroying its stockpile of anti-personnel mines
… affected by landmines that were largely supplied by the apartheid government to the rebel movements they sponsored to …
EventNavanethem (Navi) Pillay is born
… from different political organizations detained by the apartheid government. In her first case, after starting her …
EventNicolaas Johannes Diederichs, South Africa’s fourth state president, is born
… p.95 P. Eric Louw, (2004), The Rise, fall, and Legacy of apartheid, (Praeger Publishers), pp.28-29 …
EventSouth Africa signs agreement with Switzerland to support the Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP)
… The legacy of apartheid is characterized by great political and …
The Lusaka Years: The ANC in Exile in Zambia, 1963 to 1994
… with the South African government and the transition from apartheid. It concludes by arguing that the legacy and …
PlaceCompensation, Settlement near Durban
… translated means ‘eye opener’.Land was bought by the Apartheid State during the early 1960s and first used at the …
EventFirst celebration of International Women’s Day
… the role played by women in the political struggle against apartheid as well as the historic 1956 anti-pass march by …
PlaceUnion Buildings, Pretoria
… later, in 1956, some 20 000 women, protesting against Apartheid laws, undertook a procession to the Union Buildings …