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Letter from Oliver Tambo to the Prime Minister of Lesotho, Dr. Leabua Jonathan, 13 January 1982
… Council to consider this latest act of aggression by the apartheid regime. We pledge our continued commitment to …
EventA conference is held in Geneva, Switzerland (1949) to revise the original Geneva Conventions.
… 2012 would be the ability to investigate and prosecute for apartheid-related crimes, this may may conflict with South …
EventDulcie September's 's life commemorated at Athlone High School
… of activism she chose the path of resistance against the apartheid regime. She was a member of the Cape Peninsula …
EventSouth African photojournalist and member of the Bang-Bang, Club Kevin Carter, commits suicide
… Carter and his friends longed to expose the atrocities of Apartheid to the world; they captured the violence of South …
EventSA signs treaty with Great Britain on the supply of military equipment to South Africa
… US always opposed any International censure against the Apartheid government encouraged South Africa to want to … of South Africa (Cape Town)| South Africa…
EventThe Republic of South Africa is established
… normally have been granted, but because of South Africa's apartheid policy, it was vehemently opposed. Verwoerd then …
EventGeneral Barry Hertzog, former South African Prime Minister, dies
… form the party that would serve as the forerunner of the apartheid-led National Party. His refusal to support South …
EventDurban magistrate rules the death of Dr Haffejee accidental
… of the brutality employed by the security police during Apartheid. Dr Haffejee was arrested by the police on …
EventPenny Heyns, South African swimming star, is born.
… achievement also marked her as South Africa's first post-apartheid Olympic gold medalist following South Africa's …
EventSouth African Communist Party leader Abram Fischer is sentenced to life imprisonment on charges of communism
… in 1964. It was inevitable that his involvement with anti-Apartheid activists and his dedication to the SACP would …
EventFormer South African Prime Minister and State President John Vorster is born
… in 1966. Vorster toughened the government's enforcement of apartheid laws by introducing the Sabotage Act in 1962. He …
EventThe National Party (Transvaal) is founded
… Africa for almost 50 years and implemented the policy of apartheid. Following decades of political turmoil, South …
Bush Radio mourns, Professor William T. McClain (1923-2011)
… One of Bush Radio’s board members and a strong anti-apartheid activist Professor William Tilden McClain passed …
Book 2: The Impact and Limitations of Colonialism - Bibliography
… William. Beinart and Saul. Dubow (eds.), Segregation and Apartheid in Twentieth Century South Africa . London, …
EventF.W. de Klerk announces the release of Nelson Mandela and unbans political parties
… the multiple States of Emergency measures enacted by the Apartheid State had consistently failed to combat the ongoing … Sommer.H,(1996), From Apartheid to…
EventDr Piet Koornhof, one of the most controversial figures in South African history, dies
… one of the most controversial figures from South Africa's apartheid era, died in a Stellenbosch frail care centre at …
PlaceAmandasig- Akasia, Suburb in Gauteng
… residents, but the demography has changed since the end of apartheid in 1994. Nowadays, it has been developed into …
Lecture by President Thabo Mbeki delivered on the occasion of the 30th Anniversary of the death of Stephen Bantu Biko, 12 September 2007, Cape Town
… Steve Bantu Biko was murdered by those responsible for the apartheid crime against humanity. We have convened here not … would mobilise these millions to…
ArticleOn Trial: State versus Abram Fischer and Thirteen Others by Norman Levy
… of integrity than any pledge he might have made to an apartheid court. His thinking was political rather than … a stone’s throw from the Johannesburg public…
PlaceGhana
… in Africa. Ghana’s administrative capital is the coastal city of Accra. Originally founded on the site of several Ga … south-central part of the country…
EventDivision in the Coloured Representative Council deepens
… to co-operate with the government within the framework of Apartheid, while the Labour Party was strongly opposed to it. …
PlaceButterworth, Wild Coast
… Coast (the former Transkei - a black homeland during the apartheid years). Butterworth is situated north of the Great … Coast (the former Transkei - a black…
PlaceLanseria International Airport, Roodepoort
Commercial and private planes can easily be spotted on the runway a few meters away from their open air viewing deck. It all began when In 1974 the dream…
ArchiveConcentration camps in the South African War? Here are the real facts by Fransjohan Pretorius, (The Conversation), February 18, 2019
… Population Health gives the death rate of people in the city as 21 per 1000 per annum in 1901. Inside one of the …
PlacePretoria Boys High School
… in 1902. During the Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902), the city of Pretoria was captured in 1900 by British forces under …
Document 43 - Letter from T. W. Thibedi fo Leon Trotsky, 10 August 1932
… we have already taken an office at 9 Berea Street, City and Suburban, Johannesburg, from where these trade …
PlaceChris Hani Baragwanath Hospital, Johannesburg
… from 1983 to 2002, when it was amalgamated to the City of Johannesburg.) It is one of the 40 Gauteng provincial …
EventSouth Africa's new constitution is approved
… was the embodiment of the vision of generations of anti-apartheid freedom fighters and democrats who had fought for …
2002 ANC National Policy Conference: Closing Statement by Jacob Zuma, 30 September 2002
… these troubled international waters and have placed the issues of poverty eradication and a fairer world order firmly … and consensus was reached, even on…
ArchiveChimamanda Ngozi Adichie: A Reformist-Feminist by Charles Nwosu
… nonfictional writing and storytelling that span societal issues from race, identity and love to reformist-feminism. … a New York Times Notable Book, and a…