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PlaceDiep River
… halt, and thus became the obvious location for a post office. Consequently when one was opened there on 7 … and rumour has it that Depeche Mode rehearsed…
PlaceDimbaza, Eastern Cape
… of the 'surplus people', those that were discarded by the Apartheid system. More than 30 Years after Cosmas Desmond … a unique and extraordinary place to…
EventSteve Biko, a pioneer of the Black Consciousness Movement, is born
… Town, Eastern Cape. Biko’s unshaken stance against apartheid inspired the hope of freedom among millions in … in Africa. He was banned and detained several…
EventKader Asmal, political activist and future Member of Parliament, is born
… Education (1999-2004) and of Water Affairs and Forestry (1994-1999); is born in Stanger, Natal (now Kwa-Dukuza). His resistance against apartheid began in…
Reflections on the 1973 Durban strikes by Steven Freedman
… working people and played an important role in defeating apartheid. First, the strikes triggered the formation of … Afrikaans instruction as the beginning of…
EventHendrik Jacobus Coetsee is born
… He also held several ministerial positions in the Apartheid regime. In 1978 Coetsee was appointed Deputy … Security. In 1980 he became minister of Justice…
EventSouth Africa’s new constitution is approved
… organisations. The constitutional assembly sat between May 1994 and October 1996 drafting and completing the new … was the embodiment of the vision of…
EventThe TRC is set up by parliament
… Act, No 34 of 1995, investigated what happened under apartheid between 1960 and 1994. The conflict during this period resulted in violence …
EventSouth Africa signs agreement with Switzerland to support the Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP)
… The legacy of apartheid is characterized by great political and … for this programme was garnered, and on 22 November 1994, RDP received this in the form an…
ArticleBoipatong massacre - 17 June 1992
… held less than two years later. After the transition from Apartheid to democratic rule, sixteen members of the IFP … It is believed that just as the…
EventSouth Africa Freedom Day - 26 June 1950
… In 1950, the apartheid government introduced the Unlawful Organisations … It was this campaign that led to the consideration of apartheid by the United…
ArchiveAppendix 7 South Africa, the transition to democracy and the banning of torture, by Denis Goldberg
… our Constitution, banned torture. We brought an end to the apartheid dictatorship based on racism by law and the … maintain the system. Our democracy was…
ArticleuMkhonto weSizwe (MK) Timeline 1961-1990
… surrounding South Africa which were hostile to the anti apartheid struggle. After the 1976 Uprising hundreds of young … in the 1990s, MK suspended the armed…
EventLucas Mangope leaves Mmabatho due to uprising
… President Lucas Mangope, the leader of the apartheid homeland Bophuthatswana, retreated from the … from office. References: Business Day, Thursday 10 March…
EventNP demands apology from TRC
… applications to the TRC, rejected claims that the pre-1994 governments ordered the murder of anti-apartheid activists. Because the State Security Council was…
EventFrederik Willem de Klerk is elected President of South Africa
… in the referendum which, as he put it "closed the book on apartheid" and paved the way to a new dispensation for all … position until the first democratic…
EventThe first museum is opened in Soweto, and is named after Hector Pieterson, one of the first casualties of the 16 June 1976 Soweto uprising.
… been observed as a public holiday called 'Youth Day' since 1994. Soweto is an area of South Africa that is rich in the … history and heritage of the struggle…
Chapter 7 - CONCLUSION
… to persist after the first democratic elections in April 1994, and stand at the heart of the substance of the role of the Party in the post-1994 transition,…
PlaceFort Cox
… Fort Cox was a "post of occupation" established by the British military in … sites. Fort Cox was built in 1897 as one of the military post which was…
ArticleGrade 4 - Learning about local history through pictures: Cape Town
… event to be staged in country following the end of apartheid and the country’s advent to democracy in 1994. Furthermore this event was the first in the…
ArchiveNothing groundbreaking in Mandela debate by Steven Friedman, 09 December 2015
… now is a growing concern among black thinkers that many of apartheid’s ills are still with us. It is true that the racial attitudes that underpinned…
EventPhotographer, Abdul Shariff, is murdered in Katlehong
… On 9 January 1994, Abdul Shariff a freelance photographer was shot in the … was born in Verulam, Natal and began fighting against apartheid from an early age…
EventF.W. De Klerk is inaugurated
… on 17 March, 1992, which, as he said "closed the book on apartheid" and paved the way to a new dispensation for all … position until the first democratic…
EventUnion of South Africa officially ceases to exist
… leadership of Verwoerd. The country was criticised for its Apartheid policies by members of the Commonwealth. In just … parliament. South Africa rejoined the…
The Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA): CODESA 2
… organisations that were united in their opposition to apartheid gathered in Durban to form the Patriotic Front. The … by the inequality and suffering brought…
EventPeter Mokaba is born
… He was born under the cruel injustices and violence of the Apartheid system. His parents, Albert and Priscilla, were … and occupied this position during the…
ArticleFootball in South Africa Timeline 1862-2012
… African Coloured Football Association) form the anti-apartheid South African Soccer Federation (SASF). 1952 The … of the Interior, T. E. Donges, articulates…
EventClarence Makwetu announces the PAC’s suspension of its armed struggle
… the early 1990s prior to the first democratic elections in 1994. The announcement by Makwetu therefore marked the … armed hostilities between the liberation…
EventGeneral Lothar Neethling sues Vrye Weekblad and the Weekly Mail
… Neethling has supplied him with toxin to be used on anti-apartheid activists. Justice Johan Kriegler ruled in favour … and this resulted in the closure of…
PlaceBarberton, Mpumalanga
… Bray.- Sheba Mine (Avoca) historical cemetery, Barberton-Post by Riana le Roux- some more information What is locally … Like most South African Towns,…