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Staffrider Vol.7 No.2 1988
… Present by Wole Soyinka; Popular Music and the Markets of Apartheid by Chris Chapman; The Return of the Soldiers by …
EventSouth African Students Movement leaders meet to plan protest action against the implementation of Afrikaans
… the march culminated in the death of Hector Peterson. The Apartheid Government had, in 1953, enacted The Bantu …
Artist Bill Ainslie is born
… and sculptor himself, he was keenly aware of the damage Apartheid inflicted on local art. To combat this Ainslie …
EventFour South Africans and a British national charged with illegally exporting military equipment to South Africa
… in terms of its arms manufacturing capability, the Apartheid regime relied heavily on imported components for …
Event11 die when the South African Defence Force (SADF) opens fire on negotiators in Sebokeng
… Pretoria talks, which discussed the removal of repressive apartheid measures, and the creation of a free political … A Crime Against Humanity: analysing the…
EventGen. Jannie Geldenhuys announces that CCB will be disbanded
… allegedly involved in hit-squad operations against anti-apartheid activists. De Klerk said in March 1990 that he had …
EventP. W. Botha refutes possibility of Black majority rule
… country. Only now that the stark reality has dawned that apartheid has failed, and that Blacks will one day have an …
EventANC stalwart and Rivonia Trialist, Govan Mbeki, is released from Robben Island Prison
… a call for all political prisoners to be freed, as apartheid was dying. Upon his release the government …
EventSimon van der Stel, commander and governor of the Cape, is born
… race-origin, a fact that was largely unacknowledged by the Apartheid government. …
EventAWB leader, Eugene TerreBlanche, is convicted of attempted murder and assault
… the negotiations between the Liberation Movements and the Apartheid government regarding the transfer of power and …
EventPolice head admits to Khotso House bombing
… a press statement; “At last we have been vindicated. The apartheid regime, at its highest levels, ordered the bombing …
EventTerror strikes the Olympics Games in Atlanta
… banned from participating in the Games due its policy of apartheid. References: 1996 Summer Olympics [online] …
EventA few days after deciding to establish a Dutch newspaper in South Africa, the name De Burger is chosen
… which, at first, supported the nationalist cause and apartheid, and was the mouthpiece of the National Party of …
Event19 die at Shell House massacre
… The ANC saw it as a power struggle as the demise of apartheid was finalised. The IFP is based on a Zulu cultural …
EventJohn Koenakeefe Mohl , SA artist and founder member of Artists Under the Sun, dies in Soweto
… to South Africa and opened an art school in Sophiatown. Apartheid laws forced Mohl to close the school, after which …
EventSuppression of Communism Act 44 of 1950 severely limits what the media could report
… One of the most infamous of all security laws during the apartheid era, it severely limited what the media could …
EventPassbook laws relaxed
… first state of emergency and the banning of a host of anti-apartheid organisations, including the African National …
ArchiveBiography of Joyce Sikhakhane-Rankin by Victoria Sedeno
… work in the underground ANC during the height of the anti-apartheid struggle reveal the excessively brutal and inhumane … mobilize the student population in…
Devout domesticity? A century of African women's Christianity in South Africa by Deborah Gaitskell
… in the twentieth century in the very different urban setting of the Witwatersrand. In the third section, … became a British colony after the South African…
ArchiveI Write What I Like: Selected Writings
… by Steve Biko, one of South Africa's most influential anti-apartheid thinkers and the founding figure of the Black … , through to 1972, when banning orders…
Commemorating the 55th death anniversary of Suliman Saloojee
… being thrown to his death. Saloojee was the fourth anti-apartheid activist to die in custody and many more were to … Bronze for his excellent contribution to…
EventThe first 'Bantustans' or 'homelands' comes into existence when the Transkei Regional Authority is instituted
… of their land access via the 1913 Land Act. Later, under apartheid (after 1948) the division and control were more … for their own governments, led by chiefs…
Professor H. W. van der Merwe: former Director of the Centre for Intergroup Studies interview with Rupert Taylor, 23 November 1999, 6 Cambridge Road, Observatory, Cape Town
… look at how they interact with a broader range of anti-apartheid NGOs and then how they all interact with the mass … copies of publications which I dealt…
PlaceDzata Venda Ruins and Museum of the Drum, Louis Trichardt
The Dzata Ruins (or Dzana ruins) are an archaeological site in Dzanani in the Makhado municipality, Vhembe district, in the north of South Africa. Scholars who…
PlaceBishopscourt, Cape Town
… Wine Route , Kirstenbosch Gardens and getting to the city centre is a matter of 15 minutes’ drive. Maynard Park in …
Chief Albert Luthuli Centenary Lecture by President Jacob Zuma, 7 September 2012, Kimberley, Northern Cape
… 1948, this racial discrimination would be formalized as Apartheid when the Nationalist Party came to power. In 1951, … mass protests which were met with…
ArchiveEddie Webster leaves a legacy of advocacy for social justice that transcends academia by Ethan van Diemen (Daily Maverick), 5 March 2024
… Bulletin, a platform for critical analysis of labour issues. Speaking to Daily Maverick on Tuesday, sociologist …
ArticlePre-colonial history of Southern Africa
… housing up to 20 000 people. From this time on, urban settlements became characteristic of Sotho Tswana life. …
2012 ANC National Policy Conference: Opening Address by President Jacob Zuma, Midrand, 26 June 2012
… and engaging debates at this conference as well on all the issues. We pride ourselves in this movement on the culture of … and the conditions at the time of…
The diary of Maria Tholo - December 16 - 1 January 1977 by Carol Hermer
… for catastrophe.' He called for the complete abolition of apartheid. Black and white thinking on the Day of the … to blacks, both in the form of elected…