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A brief history on South African prisons and prisoners
… National government was voted into power and instituted apartheid. This lead to an increase in the number of people being incarcerated due to petty and…
Biographical contribution on Nozizwe Charlotte Madlala-Routledge
… her fervent struggle for women’s rights since the years of apartheid. Nozizwe Charlotte Madlala-Routledge, “mother of … 18 banned groups. In 1971 she…
EventLucas Mangope, Bophuthatswana homeland leader is deposed
… On 13 March 1994, Lucas Mangope was ousted as President of the homeland … Vorster. Mangope governed Bophuthatswana from 1977 until 1994. His reign was…
ArticleSouth Africa’s Academic and Cultural Boycott
… election of the National Party and the enforcement of an Apartheid State, it took time for the world to take notice … That said, one year before the…
EventFreedom Day is celebrated in South Africa
… 27 April commemorates the day in 1994 when the first democratic election was held in South … long period of colonialism and White minority domination …
The National Anthem
… issued by the (then) State President on 20 April 1994 in terms of the provisions of Section 248 (1) together … meetings. It was sung as an act of defiance…
Grade 4 term 2 Timeline: Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela
… He says that the government must first put an end to apartheid 1988 He is admitted to Tygerberg Hospital where he … awarded the Nobel Peace Prize with…
ArticleMandela and the South African Communist Party
… gathered to perpetrate violence against the repressive apartheid state. Succeeding the Sharpeville incident, a … to non-racialism inevitably played a…
ArticleA decade by decade events account of the women’s struggle in South Africa
… addresses the United Nations' Special Committee Against Apartheid in New York. Sonia Bunting goes into exile and … from prison. Gill Marcus returns from…
EventBoutros Boutros Ghali, former UN Secretary General, is born
… marked with controversy. During his term of office, the 1994 Rwandan Genocide broke out, in which almost a million … the Director of the Egyptian Council for…
EventBophuthatswana is granted independence by the South African government
… including hospitals, schools and sports grounds. After the 1994 elections, Bophuthatswana, together with other … that the end for the homeland government and…
A tribute to Indres Naidoo by Glen Moss
… Robben Island prisoner, 1963-1973. Member of Parliament, 1994-1999. Author: Island In Chains By Prisoner 885/63. Ten … radical campaign, focusing on the…
ArticleStudent Protests at Tshwane University of Technology - Timeline
… of institutions through re-structuring and mergers in Post-Apartheid South Africa, historically White and Non-White … of President Nelson Ronnihlahla Mandela…
EventKen Saro-Wiwa, Nigerian author and environmental activist, is executed
… English at the Government College Umuahia. He took up a post as a Civil Administrator during the Nigerian Civil War … military government for several months,…
Chapter 3 - Politics and Consciousness in Cape Town Communities, 1980-1985
… a loaded term in South Africa. While it is a colonial and apartheid creation, it is nevertheless a term that is widely … naÁ¯ve idea that the mass public…
ArticleStudent protests in democratic South Africa
… history of student protests going way back to the anti-Apartheid marches that predated South Africa’s democracy. Since 1994, when democracy was established,…
ArticlePolokwane/Pietersburg Timeline 1835-1995
… The town of Pietersburg/Polokwane earned city status 1994 Nelson Mandela becomes the first democratically elected … in South Africa to change its name after…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1990-1999
… held the first all inclusive democratic elections in April 1994. The ANC won 62.65% of the votes and became the ruling … the South African Communist Party …
Biography of Eli Weinberg by Karen Folz
… Eli Weinberg were heavily involved in the country’s anti-apartheid movement and faced exile as a result; other Jews … in prejudice. Keywords : Eli Weinberg,…
Resistance Photography and Mobilization of the Resistance, 1946-1976
… as a weapon can be considered a very natural phenomenon in apartheid South Africa in light of the arguments made for … to portraying Africans as participants…
Into the Fifties: Defiance by Norman Levy
… Ishmail (later Chief Justice in the new dispensation after 1994) and Denis Kuny, have never left me. Nor have my … was “to make it easier for the government…
EventSouth African Parliament repeals The Separate Amenities Act of 1953
… Amenities Act, Act No 49 of 1953, formed part of the apartheid system of racial segregation in South Africa. The … were inferior. The act was part of the…
The Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA): CODESA 1
… organisations that were united in their opposition to apartheid gathered in Durban to form the Patriotic Front. The … in the House of Representatives. [xvi]…
ArticleWhat has been the impact of the democratic transformation on the position of women within South African society? by Lucy Doyle
… Through the efforts of a dominant women’s movement in apartheid, the democratic transition in South Africa has … legal rights into effective change. Essay…
EventJoe Slovo dies
… decades. During his months as a Cabinet Minister in the post 1994 government, Slovo was charged to deliver on one of … Keller, B., Joe Slovo, Anti-Apartheid…
Defining the term 'Bantu'
… that ‘Bantu peoples’ were primitive. [7] In the earlier apartheid period, c. 1960, ‘Bantu’ replaced the word 'Native' … word became despised by Africans as…
EventPrime Minister Verwoerd’s assassin transferred from prison to a mental asylum
… On 30 June 1994, the Minister of Correctional Services in South Africa, … sentenced to spend his life in a mental institution. The apartheid government…
ArticleGrade 9 - Term 3: Turning points in South African History, 1960, 1976 and 1990
… white population of the country. A manifesto outlined how Apartheid would be implemented in practice which was enforced … phase, Apartheid. During this…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1980s
… agents operating in Switzerland and liaising with Anti-Apartheid organizations. The International University … had been exploited by activists. 1980 March,…
Worker Culture: It’s Emergence, Gains and the Implications of Decline by Frank Meintjies
… partly based on the trajectory of worker culture in the post-1994 period, worker culture did not become a lasting and … in using cultural work as part of…