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EventDr. Hendrik Verwoerd announces his plan to grant Transkei independence
… Transkei , a homeland proposed for Xhosa people under the apartheid policy of separate development. The Transkei was to …
EventSeretse Khama is re-united with his British wife
… of Mixed Marriages Act, Act No 55 of 1949 enacted by the apartheid government. The Act forbade marriages between …
EventWiehahn Commission Report tabled in parliament
… unions were still required to register with the state. The apartheid government used this registration process as a tool …
EventArthur Elias Letele, medical doctor and prominent ANC leader who went into exile in Basutoland, dies
… in 1952, Letele persuaded a number of volunteers to defy apartheid laws, and this led to his first arrest. Later in …
EventIngrid Jonker, SA poet, commits suicide.
… of the parliamentary committee responsible for the apartheid system of censorship. In April 2004, Jonker was …
EventNelson Mandela condemns the Lockerbie bombing, the first mass killing of Americans by terrorists
… of the 1988 bombing in 1991. In 1997, after the fall of apartheid, Nelson Mandela, accompanied by Graça Machel and …
EventThe Dutch Reformed Church decides that Afrikaans may be used alongside Dutch during services
… here to read more about the Dutch Reformed Church and Apartheid. …
EventMohandas K. Gandhi is arrested as he leads a march of Indian miners in South Africa
… was drawn on significantly during the fight against apartheid. The Defiance Campaign in 1952 can be seen as an …
EventAllan Boesak's plea for the acquittal on fraud charges is rejected and the case is postponed to the following year
… this platform to speak out against the policies of the apartheid government. Boesak was also instrumental in … Democratic Front (UDF), which was one of the…
ArticleAbstracts presented for the 1973 Durban Strikes Conference
… the KwaZulu regime, 1972-75 by David Hemson 1973: Neo-apartheid and the Sleeping the Giant by Mbuso Nkosi The …
ArticleSouthern Methodist University Partnership Project - 2020 submissions
… about history. Project: Deborah Matshoba’s fight against Apartheid Victoria Sedeno Victoria Sedeno is senior at …
Extraordinary ministerial meeting of The Co-ordinating Bereau Of The Non-aligned Countries on the question of Namibia -1985
… General Assembly, United Nations Special Committee against Apartheid, United Nations Special Committee on … same time, further consolidating its obnoxious…
Re-emergence of resistance, 1980-89
… as the most effective force in the fight against apartheid throughout the country. With the launch of the … the country was entering a new period that would…
ArticleThe death of Samora Machel
… about the possibilities of the involvement of the apartheid government. Of thirty-four people on board only … (TRC) investigation Following the demise of…
David Goldblatt: Intersections by Matt Damsker
… identification with the white oppressors who perpetuated apartheid for so long, but his photography doesn't stoop to … seems to suit Goldblatt's recent…
ArchiveGetting to know Omar from the inside out by Robyn Sassen, February 19, 2019
… the co-founders of Afrapix — a collective agency of anti-apartheid photographers, both professional and amateur — in … deeply interfaced with the terrible…
Fifty Fighting Years by A. Lerumo. The Communist Party of South Africa, 1921 - 1971 - Foreword to Book, by Dr Yusuf M. Dadoo,1972
… of India have in the outrageous doctrine and practices of apartheid and of their desire to help in every possible way … to be done. Despite every resolution…
Address by President Nelson Mandela to the interfaith commissioning service for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Cape Town, 13 February 1996
… lasting reconciliation. South Africa's transition from apartheid has seen the accomplishment of one step after … another that sceptics judged impossible. The…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at a Luncheon hosted by Prime Minister Tomichi Murayama Tokyo, 5 July 1995
… Japan gave to us in the struggle to free ourselves from apartheid is remembered with gratitude by our people. Our … when South Africa has become a democracy…
PlaceOliver Tambo District Municipality
… 1917 – 24 April 1993), who was a South African anti-apartheid politician and revolutionary who served as … Districts, the Homeland of the Xhosa during the…
Archive2017 - President Zuma, State of the Nation Address, 9 February 2017
… United Nations in 1963, appealing for action against the apartheid regime. We extend a warm welcome to her … Amendment Bill was sent back to Parliament so…
Document 7 - The Freedom Charter
… 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…
ArchiveThe Participation of Women in African Litterature Pre and Post-Colonialism: The Life of Micere Githae Mugo by Caroline Gathogo
… demands for equal rights around the world, like the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa and The Civil Rights … writing Africa. New York: Feminist Press…
ArchiveCourt Transcript of statement from the Dock of Nelson Mandela, Pretoria Supreme Court, 20 April 1964
… embodied in a decision which was taken to protest against apartheid legislation by peaceful, but unlawful, … force to oppose it. Already small groups had…
ArticleFreedom Day: 27 April
… people, deaths in detentions, hangings of those opposed to apartheid, imprisonment, exile, massacres, assassinations, …
PlaceGansbaai, Overberg
… driving from Cape Town then the route between the Mother City and Mossel Bay is as riddled with great stops (Hermanus, …
Exploring Student-Worker Alliance: the role of COSAS in trade unions, 1979-1985 by Noor Nieftagodien
… time, mobilised a regional general strike to pressure the apartheid government to accede to students’ demands, among … and was arguably a major turning point…
PlaceMasiphumelele Township, Cape Town
… today the huge Longbeach shopping mall is located. Under Apartheid laws these families were repeatedly chased away by … and again to move back to their…
EventTumi Molekane, the South African hip hop artist and poet is born
… of his birth his parents were living in exile due to the Apartheid regime. However in 1992, he was repatriated as a …
EventTumi Molekane, the South African hip hop artist and poet is born
… of his birth his parents were living in exile due to the Apartheid regime. However in 1992, he was repatriated as a …