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EventSouth African Journalist, Zwelakhe Sisulu is abducted.
… Zwelakhe Sisulu was a prominent journalist in the apartheid era who fought for justice and freedom. Sisulu was …
EventVuyisile Mini, Trade unionist and uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK) activist is hanged
… (MK) activist was hanged for his role in the MK and anti-apartheid resistance. As a member of the South African …
EventSouth Africa withdraws from the Commonwealth
… change, but because of South Africa's policy of apartheid. When it was clear that his request would not be …
EventSouth African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU) is formed
… used it to mobilise international solidarity against the apartheid regime. With the unbanning of political …
EventCriminal Law Amendment Act No 8 commences
… which was organised in protest against repression and apartheid laws. Link: A PDF version of this act has been …
EventPolitical activist, Dr Yusuf Dadoo is re-elected President of Transvaal Indian Congress
… the Indian community lived under during segregation and apartheid. Educated in London, and later Edinburgh, Dadoo …
EventZimbabwe becomes a member of the United Nations (UN)
… tensions, Zimbabwe was always a strong opponent of apartheid and as a UN member, supported sanctions to bring …
EventSipho Malaza allegedly dies in detention
… A Crime Against Humanity: analysing the repression of the apartheid state, Johannesburg: Human Rights Committee, p. 59. …
EventDemocratic Party (DP) indicates its policies and outlines its proposed reforms
… to find a clear-cut alternative to the National Party's apartheid policy. The PP took its stand on constitutional …
EventReconciliation talks between F.W de Klerk and Nelson Mandela are rescheduled due to violence in Sebokeng
… the talks after police shot and killed several anti-apartheid demonstrators in Sebokeng, a township in the …
EventFifty killed over three days during Inkatha
… Congress (ANC) and other political formations and the Apartheid regime. A further reason was that the UDF was … Social Text , No.31/32, Third World and Post…
EventA consumer boycott is called in Boksburg
… Coloured residents, followed the reintroduction of petty apartheid measures by the Conservative Party (CP) controlled …
EventPolice detain Valli Moosa and Murphy Morobe in Port Elizabeth
… harshness of the state of emergency in force since 1985. Apartheid spy Vanessa Brereton in 2003 alleged that she had …
EventThe first hearing looking into the mysterious death of Samora Machel begins
… about the possibilities of the involvement of the apartheid government. The commission had subpoenaed several …
EventBreyten Breytenbach; SA poet, activist and painter, receives the Hertzog Prize for his poetry
… Sunday newspaper. Breytenbach was a committed opponent of apartheid and left South Africa in 1960, settling in Paris in …
EventIan Woodall and Cathy O’Dowd becomethe first official South African team to conquer the Mount Everest
… is thought to have died on his descent. Until the end of apartheid, South Africans had not been able to get a permit …
EventPrime Minister Verwoerd’s assassin transferred from prison to a mental asylum
… sentenced to spend his life in a mental institution. The apartheid government exploited a loophole in the law, by …
Freedom Part to Host Ken Oosterbroek Legacy Exhibition
… African photographers who captured the dying years of apartheid through their camera lenses. The four …
EventNelson Mandela and Walter Sisulu on Robben Island 5 August 1982
… was made public by the United Nations Centre Against Apartheid in New York. Mandela’s long-term incarceration …
EventJohnny Clegg, South African musician is born
… could not receive airplay because of censorship since the apartheid law forbade mixed music and mixed race public …
EventGeorge Pemba, artist and playwright is born in Port Elizabeth
… was viewed as inappropriate for a Black person during the Apartheid years. He, however, managed to make a good living …
EventMazisi Kunene, Zulu poet and ANC activist, is born
… of California in Los Angeles. He was banned by the apartheid government in 1966 and spent 30 years in exile, …
EventSophiatown residents are forcefully moved to Soweto
… forced removals were part of the government's countrywide apartheid plan to turn the residential and business areas of …
EventBritain proposes the sale of arms to South Africa
… helicopters to South Africa. Protests were led by the Anti-Apartheid Movement . …
The Durban Strikes of 1973 and the End of a Cycle of Struggle by Mondli Hlatshwayo
… structures and trade unions that sought to challenge apartheid and the cheap labour system. Shop stewards, … political and social force in the union movement…
ArticleHealth and welfare
… widespread poverty and deep inequalities - the legacy of apartheid still casting a long shadow on the new democracy, … of antiretroviral drugs taken by the…
The ANC’s attempt to become the sole legitimate representative of the people of South Africa by Martin Plaut
… led by Abdul Minty, the honorary secretary of the Anti-Apartheid Movement, with whom the Labour Party had excellent … with the ANC and to represent the…
Document 21 - ANC National Consultative Conference: resolutions for the coming year
… of unprecedented mobilisation of the country against the apartheid regime. The power of organised workers, under the … This was particularly ambitious in the…
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - The Early Years at the Rand
… there are described in detail in Gold and Workers As the city grew, it created new needs and jobs for people who could … supplied the infrastructure needed…
PlaceFaure Marine Drive and Clarens Drive, Gordon's bay
… but also offering easy access to the winelands , the city and the magnificent drive into the start of the Overberg … but also offering easy access to the…