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EventPolice constable is buried alive at Ackerville cemetery near Witbank
… of security forces were targets of attacks by anti -apartheid militants in the political struggle. The killers of …
ArchiveAn investigation into the effect of race and politics on the development of South African sport (1970-1979)
… sport; Legislation and South African sport; The anti-apartheid sports movements and South Africa's sport …
ArchiveAn investigation into the effect of race and politics on the development of South African sport (1970-1979
… sport; Legislation and South African sport; The anti-apartheid sports movements and South Africa's sport …
EventDr Frederik van Zyl Slabbert resigns from parliament
… Slabbert, a staunch opponent of 'separate development' (Apartheid) and leader of the opposition Progressive Federal …
EventHuman Rights Day is celebrated for the first time in South Africa
… as well as other innumerable acts of violence under Apartheid, are what inspired South Africa's famously …
PlaceMandela House
… Soweto was an important location of the struggle, against apartheid, and Mandela's house seems an appropriate site for … Soweto was an important location of…
EventTanganyika formally ends all trade ties with South Africa
… that the US and UK heeded the call for a boycott of the apartheid state. … Ngeleza B. and Nieuwhof A. (2004), ‘Sanctions against apartheid South Africa…
EventBishop Ambrose Reeves returns to South Africa
… Anti-apartheid cleric, Dr Richard Ambrose Reeves, Anglican (Church …
EventThe Riotous Assemblies Act Commences
… Act No 74 of 1982 Click here for more on South African Apartheid legislation. …
EventFormer premier of Mpumalanga, Afrikaans poet and lawyer, Mathews Phosa is born
… tipped off by the ANC's Counter-Intelligence Unit that the Apartheid security forces were planning to kill him by means …
EventAfrican leaders issue a call for African unity
… T. Bokwe, and L.K. Ntlabati. They were protesting against apartheid and its dangers to African education, freedom of …
EventFormer NP member Roelf Meyer is born
… Development, a post he previous held under the apartheid regime. In 1997, Meyer and Bantu Holomisa formed …
EventSA Prime Minister H. F. Verwoerd stabbed to death
… Service Officer Dimitri Tsafendas stabs main architect of apartheid Prime Minister H.F. Verwoed to death. A prior …
EventWinnie Mandela is elected ANCWL president
… one of the most recognised faces of the struggle agaisnt apartheid. Several productions depicting her life have been …
EventDe Klerk announces a referendum to test his political reforms
… reforms. He introduced sweeping reforms that brought apartheid to an end. 69% of White voters voted in favor of …
EventThe SA Cricket team is re-admitted to international cricket
… a resolution taken against the South African government's apartheid policy. This led to South Africa playing only …
EventUnited Front launch in jeopardy
… implicated organisations of either having participated in apartheid structures or for their racial make-up. The move of …
EventDulcie September is assassinated in Paris
… trade (including nuclear material) between France and the Apartheid government in South Africa. Sergeant-Major Joseph …
EventArchbishop Desmond Tutu is arrested
… Desmond Tutu, a central figure in the fight against apartheid, was arrested outside parliament while leading a …
EventThe Congress of Traditional Leaders of South Africa (Contralesa) is launched
… ANC's most important rural partners. After the demise of Apartheid, Contralesa campaigned for the constitutional … in South Africa: law, power & culture in…
EventSebe seeks International Court of Justice to mediate in the ‘Kei dispute
… the International Court of Justice in the Hague. The Apartheid government originally created these Bantustan …
EventZola Budd breaks a world record
… place without any publicity that might have attracted anti-apartheid demonstrators as South Africa was banned from …
EventFormer Cabinet Minister Dullah Omar dies
… in 1983, which led to him being closely watched by the Apartheid government. In the period nearing Nelson Mandela’s …
EventMxenge murder accused Dirk Coetzee found guilty
… Judge Pieter Combrinck finds Dirk Coetzee, Apartheid policeman and Vlakplaas assassination squad …
Seedtime: Omar Badsha Retrospective
… and a way of seeing that challenged the established apartheid tropes. In the words of Professor Ari Sitas, …
EventThe Esso Oil Company closes its business in South Africa
… the hope that they could contribute in the eradication of apartheid and achievement of equality. One of the companies …
EventChief Albert Luthuli is banned for a further five years
… against the pass laws. Yet all these were menacing to the apartheid government hence they gave Luthuli many banning …
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the Johannesburg opening of the Anne Frank Exhibition at the Museum Africa Johannesburg, 15 August 1994
… Africa of today, as we emerge from the treacherous era of apartheid injustice. I think we will all agree that it is not … subjected to terrible privations,…
PlaceTrafalgar High School
… In the time of Education and its opposition to the Apartheid system, (when many students and teachers were … Street. As a School that had existed through the…
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - Where Working people Lived
… the population. Men rent beds, not houses, in the Golden City.' After the Anglo-Boer War established that Britain was … to avoid) remained, and working-class…