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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…
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…
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…
Zulu Community
… in the background. Source: Frescura Collection The pre-1994 apartheid system of homelands or 'Bantusans' denied Zulu … the Forbidden Quarters: Shacks in…
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…
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…
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. …
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…
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…
“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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Arthur Chaskalson Chief: Justice Emeritus, Constitutional Court of South Africa
… was appointed by President Nelson Mandela in June 1994 to be the first President of South Africa's new … Congress on constitutional issues (April 1990-April…
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…
EventMandela signs a law into bill creating the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC)
… was primarily to uncover human rights abuses during the Apartheid era, through public hearings. The lack of racial harmony in the country between 1960 and…