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EventSA Prime Minister completes a tour of homelands in the Northern Transvaal
… was emphasized. The Homelands were at the centre of apartheid’s policy of separate development, aimed at …
EventA delegation of seven Coloured leaders meets with SA Prime Minister Vorster to discuss the future of the Coloured community
… the government that the present political dispensation of apartheid was unacceptable. … , ‘Coloured Labour Party strengthened its stance against apartheid , …
EventMandela is awarded the Joliot Curie Gold Medal for Peace
… African Indian Congress (SAIC) and the leader of the anti-apartheid movement in Britain. Source: Leader Newspaper. …
EventMinister reports 23 acts of sabotage in RSA
… government had already arrested sixty Black suspected anti-apartheid activists. Sources: Books: Kalley, J.A.; Schoeman, …
EventAllan Boesak is arrested
… a triumvirate of South African clerics opposed to the Apartheid regime. …
EventP.W. Botha becomes SA’s first Executive President
… they viewed the new constitution as a means to enhance apartheid. …
EventP.W. Botha proposes a 'Constellation of States'
… neighbours and create a buffer zone that would protect the Apartheid government from Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) attacks. The …
EventBishop Zulu refused passport by the state
… on 'Church and Society' was planned for July. During the Apartheid era the South African government regularly refused …
EventDe Klerk and Mandela receive UNESCO peace prize
… award was given to them for their brave effort in ending apartheid, thus bringing peaceful negotiations for a …
EventMandela addresses ANC rally in Durban
… Buthelezi, for the role he had played in opposing apartheid. Mandela also emphasised the need for a single …
EventLocal elections in Townships
… 1980s, which attempted to co-opt Black leaders into the Apartheid system without sharing power, the government …
EventANC makes first submission to TRC
… of its record and strategy during its campaign against Apartheid. The document expressed the ANC's full support and …
EventMgqwetho,the first poem of Nontisi is published
… the role of rural people in the struggle against apartheid. Click here to read more about the arts in South …
EventPutin visits South Africa
… support from Moscow during its many years of fighting apartheid. …
EventTranskei announces it is re-establishing diplomatic relations with South Africa
… back to the late 1970s when Transkei demanded areas the apartheid government had designated as “white” to be part of …
EventGhanaian President Kwame Nkrumah calls on world leaders to impose “total economic and political sanctions” on South Africa
… leaders to impose sanctions on South Africa because of its Apartheid policies. African harbours were closed to the South …
EventParliament passes legislation separating the people of South Africa into four distinct races
… Parliament. Subsequently, it became the cornerstone of the Apartheid policy. An office was set up to oversee the …
EventA proposed amendment to the Population Registration Act is made
… of many other racially based laws. One of the apartheid laws passed in the 1950s was the Group Areas Act, …
EventTranskei’s first President, Paramount Chief Botha Sigcau, dies
… for the massacre because he was seen as supporting the apartheid government. This led to the uprising in Pondoland …
Contact
… parties illegal in South Africa. Contact, in defying apartheid, documented political struggles not only in the …
State of the nation address by the President of South Africa, Nelson Mandela
… to rebuild our townships, restore services in rural and urban areas, while addressing the issue of job creation and … so that it is in line with…
Public announcement of the ANC National Disciplinary Committee hearings of Comrades Julius Malema, Ronald Lamola, Pule Mabe, Sindiso Magaqa Kenetswe Mosenogi and Floyd Shivambu, 10 November 2011
… outside Luthuli House causing disruption and chaos in the City of Joburg. Throughout the hearing statements have been … and leadership, without fear or…
ArticleGrade 6 - Term 2: Explorers from Europe find southern Africa
… him famous and he was appointed court mathematician in the city of Florence. Galileo made the church very angry in 1614 …
Grade 8 - Topic 2 - The Mineral Revolution in South Africa
… Anti-Indian legislation o Forms of labour resistance o The city of Johannesburg - The Mineral Revolution as a turning …
ArticleThe Padavatan Six and the 1917 Natal Floods
… with no thought of compensation. On 8 December 1917 the City of Durban paid tribute to the Padavatan Six in a public …
Margaret Thatcher's role in SA's transformation by FW de Klerk, 5 December 2016
… world. As Prime Minister Michael Manley of Jamaica put it “Apartheid in South Africa and the relationship between the … presented an irresistible target: the…
ArchiveBiography of Dambisa Moyo by Alex Kamau
… still attending. Her father was the son of a miner in apartheid South Africa, her mother the daughter of a man who … international trade with cheaper taxes…
Document 46 - D. Tloome, “The Origin and Development of Non-European Trade Unions”, lecture delivered to the Johannesburg Discussion Club on 27 February 1953, Viewpoints and Perspectives. L 1,21 February 1953
… militant trade union movement, fearlessly taking up those issues, both economic and political, which are keeping down … propaganda by the ruling class and…
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…
O. R. Tambo Interviewed by RIXAKA, January 1985
… artists who, in their works, are fighting against the apartheid system with all its injustices. Foreign artists who support our cause should actively engage…