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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…
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 …
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…
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…
EventDarrell Roodt was born on this day
… was born in Johannesburg. Growing up during the height of Apartheid South Africa, he always used the art of film to … regime. His film Place of Weeping is…
EventRuth First is assassinated in Mozambique
… Ruth First , journalist, academic, anti-apartheid activist and member of the South African Communist … with her husband, Joe Slovo , during the height of…
EventCiskei National Security Decree No 19 promulgated
… Act, which was used to crush resistance against the Apartheid government Click here for a broader chronology of apartheid legislation. Click here to read a…
EventWinnie Mandela attacked by a group of people
… Supreme Court in Cape Town. She blamed the attack on the apartheid government, which, she said, was working hard to … her husband. Because the Qunta family…
EventDeath of Harry Oppenheimer
… played a crucial role in politics and openly opposed apartheid. In 1998, commenting on apartheid he said: "Disagreeable though it may be, we must …
EventBram Fischer born today
… Abraham (Bram) Fischer, lawyer and champion against apartheid, was born in Bloemfontein, Orange Free State on 23 … (CPSA), openly participating in its…
EventJustin Alexander (Alex) La Guma, SA novelist, short story writer and political activist, is born in Cape Town
… as Coloured. La Guma’s father was involved in anti-apartheid activism, a path that he would also follow. La Guma … most of them depicting the plight of black…
EventWhite sympathisers join evicted Black squatters in a protest
… squatters from three camps. In the 1970s and 80s the Apartheid government embarked on a concerted effort of … had acquired legal status as a place of…
ArchiveCHAPTER 6 - Towards a Broad Front and Other Desirable Accidents, January 1981 - January 1983 by Howard Barrell
… consult in order to formulate similar stances on national issues like commemoration, boycotts, etc... Molefe now … draw a wide range of non-members into the…
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…
Statement of Acceptance of the Ho Chi Minh Award Bestowed on the ANC by the World Peace Council by O. R. Tambo, Luanda, 15 December 1986
… struggle for the destruction of the imperialist supported apartheid system and thus make their own contribution to the … As we receive the Ho Chi Minh…
Statement by Oliver Tambo of acceptance of the Ho Chi Minh award bestowed on the African National Congress by the World Peace Council, 15 December 1986, Luanda
… struggle for the destruction of the imperialist supported apartheid system and thus make their own contribution to the … friends, As we receive the Ho Chi…
Hlaudi manifesto gives Jimi Matthews and his SABC comrades no option but to vote #Hlexit by Ra'eesa Pather (Mail & Guardian), 27 June 2016
… a sell-out, disappointed that his legacy as an anti-apartheid activist had been tainted by this newfound, … the SABC’s uncomfortable history as complicit…
ArchiveOpening Address of Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory and Commemoration Project, by Nelson Mandela, 21 September 2004, Johannesburg
… to see the symbolic significance of this event. Under the apartheid regime it was a common practice for the authorities … that we can recover memories and…
Press Conference in Lusaka: Oliver Tambo, 25 June 1985
… about, let us be united in defeating and destroying the apartheid regime. Some organisations, for example, don`t … them that the Freedom Charter poses the…
Press Conference by O. R. Tambo, Lusaka, 25 June 1985
… about, let us be united in defeating and destroying the apartheid regime. Some organisations, for example, don't … them that the Freedom Charter poses the…
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…
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…
EventControversial ‘Black Jesus’ painter, Ronald Harrison, dies
… Christ, depicts Luthuli crucified on the cross next to apartheid mastermind Hendrick Verwoed and former Minister of … as Roman Soldiers. The painting not…
EventThe English Cricket Council calls off South African cricket tour
… composition of the South African team among the anti-Apartheid activists and countries that were opposed to the Apartheid government of South Africa. For…