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Building A National Democratic Society by ANC, 20 December 2007, 52nd National Conference, Polokwane
… gender and social status. The achievement of democracy in 1994 marked the birth of our country as an African nation on … and mass mobilisation to challenge…
Address to the National Council Of Provinces, 19 September 2003
… throughout the country. We have come a long way since 1994. We were a country divided and a nation in turmoil, … success is guaranteed. The experience of the…
PlaceSebokeng Township, Johannesburg
… Sedibeng District Municipality . It was established during apartheid and witnessed major rent boycotts in 1984. This saw radical fighting which only ended in…
ArchiveClass, Consciousness and Organisation: Introduction by Kumi Naidoo
This chapter comes from the book
ArchiveHighlights on successes and experienced challenges during the 25 years of freedom and democracy.
… areas are fed healthy meals daily. This was implemented in 1994. We do not suffer from hunger as it used to be before … resources compared to those which…
PlaceRwanda
… . Rwanda gained independence from Belgium in 1962, but the post-colonial period was marred by ethnically motivated violence. This violence culminated into…
EventAZAPO is re-launched in Roodepoort
… The organization saw the capitalist system rather than apartheid as the main oppressing force in South Africa and … Army (AZANLA). AZAPO boycotted the…
EventMzwakhe Mbuli is sentenced to 13 years in jail
… content of his poetry. He covered issues like drugs and Apartheid and the former government banned his work, forcing … former President Nelson Mandela at his…
EventSouth Africa completes destroying its stockpile of anti-personnel mines
… its policy on the use of landmines. For instance, in 1994 the former South African government announced a … affected by landmines that were largely supplied…
EventFirst celebration of International Women’s Day
… Women's Day is not celebrated in South Africa. Since 1994, Women's Day is celebrated with a public holiday on the … the role played by women in the political…
EventSouth Africa's new constitution is approved
… organisations. The constitutional assembly sat between May 1994 and October 1996 drafting and completing the new … was the embodiment of the vision of…
EventThe ANC calls for a day of protest and observes this day as 'South Africa Freedom Day' for the first time
… In 1950 the apartheid government introduced the Unlawful Organisations … It was this campaign that led to the consideration of apartheid by the United…
EventSouth Africa's TRC begins its formal hearings into Human Rights Violations
… of National Unity (the democratic government since 1994) to help deal with violations of human rights during the apartheid era. The Commission heard…
EventANC agrees to facilitate SA rugby's return to international games
… from participating in international games because of its apartheid policy. The agree in Harare followed a meeting … place after the first South African non…
PlaceRainbow Restaurant and Jazz Club, Durban
… a full liquor license in 1983. In those dark days of Apartheid, the Rainbow played an important role in the … musicians, who remained in South Africa during…
ArticleXhosa
… of the workers in South Africa's gold mines. The dawn of apartheid in the 1940s marked more changes for all Black … These regions were proclaimed independent…
ArchiveCHAPTER ONE: A Conceptual Overview by Kumi Naidoo
This chapter comes from the book
OR Tambo Memorial Lecture delivered by President Jacob Zuma, 25 October 2015, Port Elizabeth
… to go and galvanize international support for the anti-apartheid struggle. He was to set foot on the land of his … ANC. Many of those who became leaders of…
ArchiveCHAPTER EIGHT: Indian Resistance Politics In Transition, 1990-1996 by Kumi Naidoo
This chapter comes from the book
State of the nation address by the President of South Africa, Nelson Mandela
… Nelson Mandela Houses of Parliament, Cape Town, 24 May 1994 Madame Speaker and Deputy Speaker, President of the … Nyanga nor at Orlando nor at Sharpeville…
ArticleThe Namibian struggle for independence – 1966 – 1990 – a historical background
… be kept further away from South Africa. South African apartheid laws were extended to Namibia and prevented black … 1966 – 1990, between 20 000 and 25 000…
Memorial service of photojournalist Juda Ngwenya by Cyril Ramaphosa, Rhema Church, Randburg, 26 October 2016
… funerals of those that were mercilessly mowed down by the apartheid security machinery. Mr Ngwenya was extraordinary … Ohlange to photograph Mandela casting…
Economic Transformation for a National Democratic Society by ANC, 20 December 2007, 52nd National Conference, Polokwane
… on Economic Transformation The achievement of democracy in 1994 provided South Africans with the opportunity to pursue … The symbiosis between political…
PlaceDistrict Six Museum
… The District Six foundation was established in 1989, and in 1994, the District Six Museum came into being. This museum … the District Six community that was…
ArticleZulu
… in Natal in the early twentieth century. The dawn of apartheid in the 1940s marked more changes for all Black … won the agreement of ANC negotiators just…
ArchiveRadio Freedom: A History of South African Underground Radio by Chris A. Smith
… sharp, seven nights a week, during the darkest days of apartheid, an incendiary radio broadcast beamed out from … the longtime resistance movement that took…
A New Era for Africa in a Globalizing World, Unesco, Paris, 19 November 2003
… from food deficits and have become net food importers. The post-colonial period has not changed this situation … of colonial tyranny. The liberation of South…
Address by the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, on the occasion of Heritage Day, Cape Town
… our country that ended with our accession to democracy in 1994. The historian Noel Mostert says of the Cape when … promote the vision of liberty and…
Address by Nelson R. Mandela to the plenary session of the Multi-Party negotiations process World Trade Centre, Kempton Park, 17 November 1993
… of an era. We are at the beginning of a new era. Whereas apartheid deprived millions of our people of their … citizenship, we are restoring that citizenship…
2004 Gruber Justice Prize: Arthur Chaskalson
… he represented defendants against South Africa's apartheid government, including the infamous Rivonia Trial of … the legal process, by challenging the…