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EventAt least 150 people die in clashes between the ANC and IFP
… two years in 1987. Most violent action was directed at the apartheid government, but soon spread between residents of … for the violence as it was later…
EventIngrid Jonker, SA poet, commits suicide.
… a play, were published in 1975 and re-issued in 1983 and 1994. Much of Jonker's early writing related to the episodes … of the parliamentary committee…
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…
ArticleA History of Official Government HIV/AIDS Policy in South Africa
… The HIV/AIDS Crisis Emerges: Reponses of the Apartheid Government In 1982, the first case of AIDS in South … of President Nelson Mandela’s Administration On…
ArticleAfrica: Colonialism, Arts, Protest & Independence
… the pan-African national anthem in South Africa during apartheid and, thereafter, part of the new South African … period Ben Enwonwu becomes the first…
ArticleOrganization of African Unity Timeline 1884-2000
… the pan-African national anthem in South Africa during apartheid and, thereafter, part of the new South African … period. Ben Enwonwu becomes the first…
EventSpringboks wallop Scotland
… After the demise of Apartheid, the South African rugby team, … their host and demonstrations marred the tour. During the 1994 game the Springboks, under…
EventJudge Goldstone calls for “truth commission” on atrocities
… In May 1994, Justice Richard Goldstone called for the establishment of a "truth commission" on Apartheid atrocities because "victims would not be able to …
EventThe UN General Assembly adopts resolution 1881, requesting South Africa to release all political prisoners
… With the inception of apartheid in 1948, numerous repressive laws limited the … and boycotts to undermine the administration of the apartheid government…
South Africa’s Radical Tradition, a documentary history, VolumeTwo 1943 - 1964, by Allison Drew - Bibliographical note and further reading
… Luli (1993), A Place in the City: The Rand on the eve of Apartheid, Braamfontein: Ravan and Cape Town: Maskew Miller … self, M.A., University of Cape Town…
ArticlePublic Protest in Democratic South Africa
… Since South Africa’s advent to democracy in 1994, public protests either service delivery protest, … protests, increased militancy reminiscent of the anti…
ArchiveHugh Lewin, 1939–2019, RIP by Jennifer Malec, 17 January 2019
… Journalist, author and anti-apartheid activist Hugh Lewin has died, aged seventy-nine. … He also worked at Drum magazine and Golden City Post in Johannesburg…
Mandela’s membership of the Communist Party: what needs to be reassessed by Tom Lodge
… the beginning of the 1950s: as he noted much later in his 1994 autobiography at the certainties offered by “the … in the latter camp and under his patronage…
ArticleThe development of Music in South Africa timeline 1600-2004
… international star and brought attention to South African apartheid. 1951 Willard Cele appeared in the film The Magic … mass arrests, bannings and trials of…
ANNOUNCEMENT OF ANC CANDIDATE PREMIERS, 23 April 1999
… Cape ANC in 1991, becoming chairperson of the province in 1994 and thereby serving ex-officio on the National Executive … completed his Masters in Theology…
EventEnforcement of military conscription for all white males in SA
… SADF and their services were largely used to uphold the apartheid regime. They fought against liberation movements in … and were often deployed to townships…
EventHistory of December 16
… of Reconciliation After the first democratic elections in 1994, December 16 continued to form part of the history of post-apartheid South Africa. On 16…
Keeping a cool head amid flying bullets: A tribute to Juda Ngwenya by Joseph Oesi (City Press), 26 October 2016
… journalists such as yourself captured the inhumanity of apartheid – how you worked under the most trying of … for photographers in Johannesburg in this…
PlaceKwaNdebele
… was Siyabuswa and it became part of South Africa in 1994. It now forms part of the Northern Province. For a … , which has a section covering the Ndebele and…
EventThe QwaQwa homeland receives self-government status
… one of the ten homelands in South Africa introduced by the apartheid government. It was home to the Batlokoa and Bakwena … state under the leadership of…
Liberation organisations
… was an essential tool in the repressive apparatus of the apartheid regime, and consisted of both white and black … to quell civil war in the black townships…
EventWalter Sisulu arrested under the Suppression of Communism Act
… Party victory in 1948 came the official implementation of apartheid. Repressive laws were soon introduced with a … for 26 June 1950 to protest against the…
EventSouth African photojournalist and member of the Bang-Bang, Club Kevin Carter, commits suicide
… child being stalked by a vulture in 1993. On 18 April, 1994, only 6 days after Carter won the Pulitzer, the … Carter and his friends longed to expose the…
Book 2: The Impact and Limitations of Colonialism - Bibliography
… from Cape Muslim History . Cape Town, Shuter & Shooter, 1994. Davidson, Basil. Africa in History . London, Phoenix, … William. Beinart and Saul. Dubow (eds.)…
EventANC agrees to facilitate SA rugby’s return to international games
… from participating in international games because of its apartheid policy. The agree in Harare followed a meeting … place after the first South African non…
EventThree Zimbabwean intelligence officers stand trial for a bomb attack on an ANC house
… bomb injured three ANC members in Bulawayo. On 21 April 1994 Woods, Smith and Conjwayo were granted South African citizenship by the apartheid government…
EventNelson Rolihlahla Mandela passed away
… marks the anniversary of the death of revolutionary anti-Apartheid liberation leader, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, whose … the African National Congress’ (ANC)…
EventFormer premier of Mpumalanga, Afrikaans poet and lawyer, Mathews Phosa is born
… Nakedi Mathews Phosa, former premier of Mpumalanga (1994-1999), Afrikaans poet and lawyer was born in Mbombela … tipped off by the ANC's Counter-Intelligence…
EventSouth Africa’s TRC begins its formal hearings into Human Rights Violations
… of National Unity (the democratic government since 1994) to help deal with violations of human rights during the apartheid era. The Commission heard…
ArticleTimeline of South African photographic books and exhibitions 1958 - 2003
… , is later published by Random House and is banned by the apartheid government. In addition, the government also … in Europe. He returned to South Africa to…