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EventUN concerned about Fischer’s arrest
… The United Nations (UN) Committee on the Policy of Apartheid of the Government of South Africa (Special Committee Against Apartheid) expressed very serious…
Statement at the Symposium on the Survival and Development of Children in the Frontline States and Southern Africa, Harare, March 1-5, 1988
… is because we have to contend still with the reality of apartheid, oppression, repression and aggression. The … amply demonstrates the correctness of the…
EventGermany invades Poland, starting World War II
… of whether to join the war was one of the most divisive issues to have emerged within the South African White …
ArchiveThis violence is not unique to SA by Daniel Magaziner, 09 September 2019
… the opportunity to implement its plans to segregate the city. Blacks and Indians lived cheek by jowl in and around the docks and city centre, in hostels and…
PlaceAntipolis and Romelia Shipwrecks, Cape Town
… . The tug had made an unscheduled stop in Abidjan, (a City on the Southern Atlantic coast of Côte d'Ivoire, in West … shore dive and it was quite visible at…
PlaceGranger Bay
… only 20 minutes' from the airport , is minutes from the city or Cape Town's International Conference Centre - … Club , which lies within the Green Point…
ArchiveThe Trotskyist Groups in South Africa - A Retrospective View by Baruch Hirson (Encyclopedia of Trotskyism On-Line: Revolutionary History: Volume 4, No. 4, 1993, South Africa)
… Europe. They had a number of common positions on foreign issues, including an uncompromising anti-Fascism, an … Socialist thinkers, would not have been…
EventMass Democratic Movement (MDM) begins their Defiance Campaign
… Parliament. It was one of the most significant anti-apartheid movements, and comprised of 400 church, civic and … to make South Africa ungovernable - thereby…
Extracts from the book ‘A long walk to Freedom’. Nelson Mandela’s autobiography
… characterised by the complete eradication of the system of apartheid, fundamental socio-economic transformation, peace … level of mass mobilisation and mass…
Eye of the Needle - Chapter 5 - The Politics of Socialism
… centralization actually lowers the costs, but once the city becomes very large, the costs of movement of goods and … of the demand each factory should meet…
A.I. Kajee His Work for the Southern African Indian Community - Chapter 9
… and is fairly safe from defeat in the House on major issues affecting Europeans in South Africa. I am afraid, … to meet the substantial case put forward by…
PlaceKhayelitsha Township
… promised fair treatment for Black people who resided in urban areas, though he persisted with influx control. He …
EventAdriaan Vlok applies for amnesty
… Former apartheid era Minister of Law and Order, Adriaan Vlok, … headquarters in Johannesburg in 1987. He became the first apartheid minister to approach and…
EventDesmond Tutu is appointed TRC chairperson
… Anti-apartheid activist and Nobel laureate Archbishop Mpilo … took place and the rand plunged. At the end of apartheid, Tutu was appointed head of the Truth…
Statement by Oliver Tambo at a press conference in Addis Ababa, 11 July 1973
… Prisoners of apartheid July 11, 1973, marked the passage of ten years … to other restrictions for having opposed the policy of apartheid". Despite numerous…
Address by Oliver Tambo to the joint session of Parliament of Trinidad and Tobago, Port-of-Spain, 2 July 1987
… like Nelson Mandela, who are held in the prisons of apartheid. In inviting the African National Congress to … of the world have flowed the policies of…
EventThe Motsuenyane Commission finds the African National Congress (ANC) guilty of abuse in its camps
… Human rights abuses were common in South Africa during the apartheid era and the liberation struggle was aimed at bringing these abuses to an end. When…
EventThe United Democratic Front (UDF) is dissolved
… in August 1983, and was one of the most prominent anti-apartheid movements, comprising of over 400 workers', church, … National Congress (ANC) to strengthen…
PlaceStanger, now officially known as KwaDukuza
… Africa, in KwaZulu-Natal some eighty kilometres from the City of Durban. Stanger was granted Municipal Status, in 1949 …
PlaceThe Struben Mine Shafts, Kloofendal, Roodepoort
… with a guide. A Security Guard (paid by Johannesburg City Parks) is on duty every Day. Please be aware that …
PlaceMalawi
… population of 19 129 952 million people (in 2020). Capital city is Lilongwe . Spoken languages are English and …
Document 3 - National Anti-CAD Conference Agenda, Oddfellows Hall, Hope Street, Cape Town, Saturday, 29 May [1943]
… and Discussion. SUNDAY, 30th MAY. BANQUETING HALL, CITY HALL, CAPE TOWN. MORNING SESSION: 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. 10 …
Statement by Oliver Tambo at lunch hosted by the Foreign Minister of Venezuela, 13 July 1987, Caracas
… reform, and set in process a nationwide campaign to make apartheid unworkable. Many of the institutions used by the regime to administer apartheid have been…
Reflections on the 1973 Durban strikes by Steven Freedman
… working people and played an important role in defeating apartheid. First, the strikes triggered the formation of … Afrikaans instruction as the beginning of…
African National Congress Press Statement by O. R. Tambo, 5 November 1979
… the people to defeat the tyrannical measures which the apartheid regime imposes on us daily. More than at any other … such an outstanding feature in the…
Art lost in a time of struggle by Mary Corrigall
… to, the Medu Art Ensemble, played a role in the anti-apartheid struggle movement, which means that this exhibition … drawings are poignant evocations of the…
ArticleBlack Consciousness and 16 June – The birth of a new generation
… instilled in the youth obviously agitated the Apartheid regime. The process leading up to the Soweto … themselves to the forefront of militant opposition to…
ArticleThe Grey Street Mosque, 1880-1930
… males met. Mosques also dominated the skyline in most urban centres and became the most visible symbol of the … a revered Sufi shakh. In the context of…
ArchiveA critical look at the role of the Muslim Judicial Council in the struggle for liberation in South Africa from 1960 to 1994
… the Muslim Judicial Council (MJC) in the struggle against apartheid in South Africa. It will firstly place the study in … A section on the MJC's involvement…
EventArchbishop Owen Cardinal McCann becomes South Africa’s first cardinal.
… Church Archbishop of Cape Town, Owen McCann, an enemy of Apartheid, became South Africa's first Cardinal when he was … South African Catholic Church began…