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EventIOC extends South Africa’s ban from Olympic games
… heavily in the international sports arena as result of its apartheid policy. Prior to the Tokyo Olympic games in 1964, …
EventSA beaches are opened to all racial groups
… after a number of protest multiracial swim-ins by anti-apartheid activists. He further promised the scrapping of the …
ArchiveFrom Lithuania to a false start in Johannesburg and settling in Cape Town, Carmel Schrire and Gwynne Schrire (The Heritage Portal), 21 September 2016
… commented, “it is unbelievable that within seven years a city could be built in the wild South Africa within rocky mountains and hills of sand. A big city…
ArticlePrehistory of the Port Elizabeth area
… trace their descent from shipwreck survivors. During the apartheid era, it was a common myth that Black farmers met …
EventRay Alexander Simons, founder of Food and Canning Workers Union, arrives in South Africa
… exile where she continued to support the struggle against apartheid. Between 1981 and 1983 Ray Alexander wrote a series … of the role played Ray Alexander in…
EventThe Erasmus Commission’s report implicates Rhoodie, Mulder and van den Bergh in SA’s infamous ‘Information Scandal’
… also particularly concerned about the continued attacks on Apartheid policies by students who had fled the country … students on subjects relating to the…
EventSupreme Court changes ruling on forced removals, traditionally
… From 1960 to 1983, the apartheid Government forcibly moved 3.5 million Black South … prospects. Third, removals were an essential tool of the apartheid…
PlaceJohn Vorster Square Police Station or Johannesburg Central Police Station
… cells were on the lower floors of the building. During the Apartheid era, this Police Station, was notoriously known as a site of interrogation, torture and…
Document 58 - Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe, “The Opening Address at the Africanist Inaugural Convention”, 4 April 1959 [….]
… It is precisely for that reason that we reject both apartheid and so-called multi-racialÂism as solutions of our … has been divided between a majority which…
ArchiveThe preliminary nature of the Constitutional document
… administrative system while dismantling the structures of apartheid. …
EventThe Population Registration Bill is read for the first time
… time in Parliament. The Bill was a cornerstone of the Apartheid policy as it recognised three race classifications, … 30 January 2014]|Joyce, P. (1990). The…
EventIndia complains in 1946 against racism in South Africa
… details of the early opposition by India to the new apartheid government, read article. To read the actual … Enuga Reddy, (2012), ‘ INDIA AND THE STRUGGLE…
EventAfrican-American tennis player, Arthur Ashe. is denied a visa by the South African Government
… at Ellis Park in April. Arthur Ashe campaigned against apartheid in South Africa and called for South Africa to be …
EventANC promulgates its constitutional proposals
… proposals envisioned a two-phase transition to a post-apartheid democracy and were supported by the South African …
EventNelson Mandela says “thank you” to the world
… he thanks the world for their wide support for the anti-apartheid struggle. The concert comes a few months after …
PlaceMsunduzi River
… is the namesake of the Msunduzi Municipality, where the City is located. The Msunduzi River is well known for hosting …
Interview with Swami Gounden by Vino Reddy, 29 May 2002
… of Mysore of India presented an elephant to the Durban City Council and that elephant was called Nellie, and when … a very, very vibrant organisation and…
EventAn intricate prisoner exchange takes place in Maputo, Mozambique
… Maputo, Mozambique, involving 133 Angolan soldiers, anti-apartheid activists, Klaas de Jonge, a Dutch anthropologist, …
EventThe New Republic Party is formed
… from the former UP left the new party to join the anti-apartheid Progressive Federal Party (PFP) or the ruling …
EventAfrikaans Writer Breytenbach is sentenced
… organisation Atlas or Okhela, a resistance group fighting apartheid in exile and was intended to be the White wing of …
EventThe Japanese government announces that South Africans will no longer be granted visas to enter Japan
… Due to South Africa’s Apartheid regime in the 1970s and 1980s, many countries were …
Albert Luthuli`s speech to ceremony for presenting him the Christopher Gell Memorial Award, 21 October 1961, Port Elizabeth
… against the ruinous flood of the Group Areas Act and its apartheid menace. At this juncture, I tentatively throw out a … engendered in this land…
PlaceSão Tomé and Príncipe
… Where as a third of the population live in São Tomé city and its outskirts, only about 5%, live on the island of …
PlaceGenadendal Historic Village & Museum
… Residents then had to leave the Village and head to the City in search of work! Legislation at the time was also far …
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…
ArchiveOpening address at the 59th Annual Congress of the National Union of South African Students, University of Cape Town, 1981.
… emergence of a Broad Democratic Front organising to oppose apartheid, and the role played by the National Union in those …
ArchivePolitical Action Committee report
… the National Union. These include exposing the role of the apartheid government, to draw students into supporting the …
ArchiveBolt Number 10 May 1974
… Morphet, Contents: Poetry, Imprisoned by the Dictators of Apartheid Ahmed Timol considers the art of Eduardo Paolozzi …
EventZola Budd and Annette Cowley are banned from the Commonwealth Games
… refusal to support economic sanctions against the apartheid government of South Africa. …
Nelson Mandela Speaks on Tolerance, April 30, 2006 on CBS (Video)
… he was able to lead South Africa from the repression of apartheid into a peaceful democracy. …