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EventFrance supplies two new combat submarines to South Africa
… Ocean. At the time, the Soviet Union was supporting Anti-Apartheid movements like the African National Congress (ANC). … also reiterated Soviet support for…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1910s
… mixed as a result of the unavailability of other legal, urban, 'non-white' living areas. Start of the publication of … independence for South Africa and a…
PlaceMobeni
… KwaZulu-Natal, Durban (formerly Port Natal). The largest City of KwaZulu-Natal Province and the chief Port of South … KwaZulu-Natal, Durban (formerly Port…
ArticleA Spiral of Trials by Norman Levy
… to allow the men’s wives and families to live in the urban centres; and their physical strength barely sustained … almost all produced by the CPSA and dealt…
Archive2010 - President Zuma, State of the Nation Address, 11 February 2010
… to the call to make the country ungovernable and apartheid unworkable. We are celebrating this day with former … ministerial team to visit the area to…
PlaceDitsong National Museum of Military History, Johannesburg
… as well as items relating to the armed struggle against apartheid. The museum was opened in 1947 by South Africa’s … is also a wealth of more modern exhibits…
EventEditors oppose legislation on media control
… both English and Afrikaans, unanimously opposed the apartheid government's planned legislation to establish a … over three days to argue their case against…
EventThe company, IBM, re-forms in South Africa
… to criticisms that it was continuing to profit from Apartheid by saying it was proud of its role in South Africa, … the international divestment campaign,…
Document 9 - First letter from Nelson Mandela to Hendrik Verwoerd
… and seriously, could create the possibility to end apartheid through negotiations. Such an eventuality would be … struggle to get together to negotiate an…
Document 13 - Declaration of the Organization of African Unity (OAU) ad hoc committee on southern Africa on the question of South Africa; Harare, Zimbabwe (The Harare Declaration) Sections 14-24
… and seriously, could create the possibility to end apartheid through negotiations. Such an eventuality would be … struggle to get together to negotiate an…
Freedom In Our Life Time - Debates and Relations with Other Organizations
… alarming physical and moral deterioration of the African urban society. Unless the Africans desperate fight is crowned … in a national disaster or calamity…
ArticleA history of Kwaito music
… keep a ready supply of cheap labour under control by the apartheid government. Many groups have begun to be exposed to …
ArticleRichard David Turner Timeline 1941 - 1978
… with SPRO-CAS (Stidy Project on Christianity in an Apartheid Society) begins 1972 Publication of SPRO-CAS …
Journals
… History is now regarded as a dynamic discipline, in apartheid South Africa it tended to be associated with …
EventGoldstone report on police shootings in Sebokeng is released
… Goldstone, into the shooting by the police of anti-Apartheid protesters in the township of Sebokeng on 26 March, … made public. On 26 March police had opened…
EventAllan Boesak resigns from the church
… Kerk (Dutch Reformed Church) and leading anti apartheid orator, has being officially relieved of his duties … Botha, a television producer and niece of a…
EventBarclays Bank changes its name to First National Bank
… Barclays Bank's involvement in South Africa and its apartheid government, Barclays Bank (SA) announced its new … one, the pressure exerted against the bank…
EventConstable Vlotman is given a R500 fine and a five year suspension sentence
… may have been intended to create the impression that the Apartheid government was concerned about threats to media … freedom. However, the sentence meted out…
EventDrum Magazine calls for the release of all political prisoners
… Drum Magazine was instrumental in the struggle against apartheid. It often exposed ills committed against black people by the apartheid regime during the…
EventGwen Lister is born
… South African born Namibian Journalist, publisher and anti apartheid activist. She was born in East London on 5 December … In Namibia Lister focussed on…
EventThe UDF launches the Million Signatures Campaign and by October collect just under 400 000 signatures.
… On 22 January 1984, amidst the Apartheid government’s constitutional reform plans, … from the public, declaring opposition against the Apartheid government…
ArticleSouth Africa’s 2019 General Election - Post Analysis
… of the market and the degree of state intervention. These issues were reflected in the various parties’ positions on … of focusing only on inflation…
ArchiveChapter 11 The escape by Denis Goldberg
… by issuing a false death certificate. As a result the apartheid government, through the Medical and Dental Council, … being raised and by then we had to be…
Message to the Soweto Rally to Welcome Released Leaders by O. R. Tambo, 29 October 1989
… of a century and more; the murder of thousands by the apartheid army and police and their secret murder squad; the … who have suffered from the daily…
Speech at the Tenth General Conference of the United National Independence Party by O. R. Tambo, Zambia, August 1988
… resistance by various international forces, among them the apartheid regime in South Africa, whose war of … Sharpeville six, there are scores of patriots…
PHOTOGRAPHY REVIEW; Documenting Ordinary Scenes Of South Africa Then and Now by Michael Kimmelman (The New York Times), 24 August 2001
… ordinary life, or what passed for ordinary life in apartheid South Africa. In time, he became his country's most … metaphorically suggesting the…
ArchiveThe Mission by Denis Goldberg - Foreword by Dr Z. Pallo Jordan
… from a different viewpoint because the racist dogmas of apartheid dictated that he would be incarcerated apart from … (in Silver), “For his commitment to the…
The Segregation Fallacy and Other Papers - Christian Missions and the Bantu
… In the case of the African boys and girls employed in urban areas this proved often disastrous. Their evening hours … partly accounts for the gangs of…
EventDurban Declaration is published denouncing Thabo Mbeki's AIDS denialism
The Durban Declaration was a statement signed by over 5 000 people in the scientific community stating that HIV caused AIDS. The declaration was signed and…
PlacePhuthaditjhaba, Free State
Phuthaditjhaba is a Sotho town in the province of the Free State. Flanked by the drama of the Drakensberg Mountains and the Maluti Mountains, Phuthaditjhaba is…