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EventSecurity officials report that levels of political violence have dropped significantly in SA
… (ANC), the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) and other anti-apartheid organisations. The extreme right reacted with anger …
EventRecord of Understanding is agreed to by the SA government and the ANC
… regarded the killings as nothing but an indictment on the apartheid government. …
ArchiveWebinar Programme: Strategic Debates, the ANC - SACP alliance and the Soviet Union. Convenor: Tshepo Moloi.
… in South Africa's rural reserves in the 1950s, the apartheid state continued to roll out its Bantustan policy, … full impact when the revolution has…
PlaceDriefontein, Mpumalanga
… a white policeman, Constable Johannes Nienaber. The anti-apartheid activist and land rights campaigner was addressing … was formed by concerned residents who…
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…
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…
PlaceRondevlei Nature Reserve
… and a huge lagoon. Despite being in the middle of a city, one feels as though one has escaped. So do the birds, …
ANC pays tribute to the late Arthur Goldreich, 26 May 2011
… white South African but bore the pain of fighting against apartheid. As the member of the ANC and Umkhonto Wesizwe he …
EventIndependent African States resolve to impose sanctions against South Africa
… against the Union of South Africa in protest against apartheid. …
EventNelson Mandela is sentenced to five years for “incitement and leaving South Africa illegally”
… the intention to prepare for an armed struggle against the apartheid government. In 1962 He was smuggled out of South …
EventThe twentieth anniversary of the arrest of Nelson Mandela is marked by a call for his release by China
… was made public by the United Nations Centre Against Apartheid in New York. Mandela’s long-term incarceration …
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 …