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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…
Address by His Excellency President Jacob Zuma on the celebration of Freedom Day, 27 April 2011, Union Buildings, Pretoria
… United Nations. We recall the pain caused by the legion of apartheid legislation that stripped away the dignity of … far enough away enough from white…
ArticleThe Interim South African Constitution 1993
… to draft a Constitution with the aim of bring an end to apartheid legal order. The agreement was described as a … in Kempton Park and it was duly endorsed by…
Links & Partnerships
… and People General South African History Websites Anti-Apartheid and Southern Africa - Background . For those … the period from 1950 to the first democratic…
Introduction of A Crime Against Humanity
… A Crime Against Humanity - Analysing the Repression of the Apartheid State edited by Max Coleman This is a book about … from 1990 to the first democratic…
“Exodus without a map”: What happened to the Durban moment? by Edward Webster
… for the development of a more pro-poor and egalitarian post-apartheid developmental path. I divide my argument into three … However, for Mamdani, social…
Zulu Community
… in the background. Source: Frescura Collection The pre-1994 apartheid system of homelands or 'Bantusans' denied Zulu … the Forbidden Quarters: Shacks in…
ArticleDistrict Six is Declared a ‘White Area’
… a White area under the 1950 Group Areas Act of the Apartheid government. [iii] History The first occurrence of … Act(Athlone, South Africa : Surplus People…
ArticleThe death of Samora Machel
… about the possibilities of the involvement of the apartheid government. Of thirty-four people on board only … the Komatiepoort police from the phone of a…
Liberation
… to know. We are the people who have borne the brunt of apartheid, of forced removals from our homes, of poverty in … Charter adopted during the Community…
The Liberation Struggle in South Africa
… resistance 1900-1959 1900-1959 1960-1994 Related References  … segregation (later to become known by the…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, to the Joint Sitting of Parliament to Report on the Processing of Some Presidential Pardons: Cape Town, 21 November 2007.
… which lost some of their kith and kin as a result of apartheid repression and aggression. Yesterday, one of our … Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s…
ArchiveOxford: 1990s: the move to democracy
… with hands held high at Mandela's inauguration in 1994. Extract of speech from Mandela. Issued by Apartheid Museum. …
ArticleAfrican National Congress Youth League (ANCYL)
… an attempt to make the country ungovernable and force the apartheid regime to abandon its oppressive policies. Similar campaigns targeting specific apartheid…
BiographyPeter Henry Abrahams
… of the central business district of Cape Town. During apartheid the area was home to people that the government … Island Now (1966) The View from Coyaba …
ArticleReactions to Silverton Siege 1980
… the South African regime for perpetuation of the policy of Apartheid, which constitutes a crime against humanity.’ In … the organisation and made a tribute…
ArticleFreedom Charter timeline 1948-1961
… up its election victory with the introduction of new apartheid laws as well as the stricter application of … of Protest and Mourning is heeded. Since then …
ArticleKenyan Timeline
… force the government to begin economic reforms in Kenya. 1994 January 20 – Oginga Odinga dies. The opposition parties … Kenyatta) is appointed to parliament…
Call for papers: 100 years of the SACP
… Communist Party of South Africa until its banning by the apartheid regime in 1950, played a major role in South Africa’s liberation struggle and has, since…
ArticleThe Politics Behind Water
… the National Party (NP) came into power at the start of Apartheid. [11] This change in legislation was caused by the … Congress (ANC) to implement a new…
ArchiveDaai geld, daai geld, daai baie geld!
… Pamphlet produced by the African National Congress for the 1994 elections. Title translated into English reads, That … Asks what happened to South African…
EventRichard J. Goldstone, former Justice of the Constitutional Court of SA, is born
… judge of the Transvaal Supreme Court. Towards the end of apartheid, Goldstone headed a commission to investigate … and intimidation that took place between…
EventSA Olympic team leaves for Barcelona
… in the 22nd Olympic games staged in Barcelona, Spain in 1994. This was South Africa's first participation after a … ban by the International Olympic…
EventThe Azanian People’s Organisation (AZAPO) is founded after the government banned a host of BCM organisations in October 1977.
… of the 16 June 1976 Uprising, in Soweto, Johannesburg, the apartheid government banned all the organisations under the … and continued to propagate it in it…
ArticleAlbertina Sisulu and the organisations she was connected to
… outside of the ANCWL would be the only way to defeat the Apartheid system, they worked hard to form valuable alliances … them to learn under the Bantu…
Re-emergence of resistance, 1980-89
… as the most effective force in the fight against apartheid throughout the country. With the launch of the … the country was entering a new period that would…
ArchiveCuito Cuanavale, Angola 25th Anniversary of a Historic African Battle by Ronnie Kasrils (Monthly Review), Africa, Angola
… Prohibited from meeting openly by South Africa’s apartheid government, the Seventh Congress of the South … was implacably opposed to any of those options…
EventSouth Africa becomes a charter member of the United Nations
… UN and South Africa. The implementation of the policy of apartheid by the NP put South Africa on the UN General … agenda. After the UN General Assembly…
Ruth First Untold by Jerry Saena
… assisted with her important role in the abolishment of apartheid. She wrote major articles and books that would aid anti-colonial and anti-apartheid…
ArticleThe Conflict between the AZAPO and the UDF - popular violence in the 1980s and 1990s
… police, army, Azapo and the ANC in Bekkersdal township, 1994 African Media Online During 1981 tensions between … May the Soweto branch of AZAPO proposed a…