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Memorial lecture on the 26th Anniversary of the Lowveld Massacre presented by Comrade Jackson Mthembu ANC National Spokesperson, 15 March 2012
… evening. As we all know this Massacre of our people by the apartheid regime and its security forces started with the … and the mourners, scores of people…
Address at a Banquet at the Guildhall London, 13 June 2001
… from yours. You stand in the vanguard of the developed, post-industrial world, in the cusp of the electronic era. You … racial injustice ever seen. Thanks to…
ArchiveCelebrating and commemorating twenty-years of the Harare declaration by Kgolane Alfred Rudolph PHALA
… and seriously, could create the possibility to end apartheid through negotiations". We look back at this historic document which led us to 1990 and 1994 and…
Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom - Chapter 2 - Explaining the Miracle by Max du Preez
… out of power. Yet that was what happened between 1990 and 1994 in South Africa – the Whites-only National Party had had … leader of the National Party and…
The Colonial Photographic Discourse and Censorship – Challenges for Resistance Photographers
… to overcome the blind spots resulting from an internalised apartheid ideology. To see what had not hitherto been seen; … This chapter traces the ideological…
ArticleNegotiations and the transition
… on the international political scene forced the apartheid government to enter into negotiations with the ANC. … 1984 and 1989 secret meetings aimed at…
PlaceSoweto, Johannesburg
… for Johannesburg. It experienced civil unrest during the Apartheid regime. There were serious riots in 1976 , sparked … until the first multiracial elections…
Address at the Paris City Hall, 18 November 2003
… the task of creating a better life for all South Africans. Apartheid had left a devastating legacy of vast inequalities … delivery of essential services to…
ArticleThe Jacob Zuma Presidency - 2009 to 2017 (March)
… of his supporters. With the tragedy likened by many to Apartheid-era violence and brutality, critics questioned … had really changed following its…
Patric Tariq “de Goede” Mellet
… speaks of growing up in a mixed race community during Apartheid, deciding to become involved in the Liberation … the ANC and SACP, surrounded by aggressive…
ArticleThe Angolan Civil War (1975-2002): A Brief History
… Angola’s hard-won victory problematic. As with many post-colonial states, Angola was left with both economic and … UN after it broke a ceasefire agreement. …
PlaceZululand District Municipality
… re-incorporated into the Natal province after the end of apartheid in 1994, the province of Natal, which had existed between 1910 and 1994, was renamed…
PlaceSouth End Museum, Port Elizabeth
… past history of the suburb of South End. The elections of 1994 in South Africa gave many formerly disadvantaged people … resulted from Forced Removals, the…
Albie Sachs: From freedom fighter to justice on South Africa’s Constitutional Court by Morris Arvoy
… African security agents during the arduous fight to end apartheid. Sachs, 78, went on to help negotiate South Africa’s peaceful transition from the racist…
PlaceMamelodi
… and the pain they endured after their forced removal by Apartheid from areas like Riverside, Eersterust, Marabastad, … resulted in them overcoming the…
ArchiveWebinar Programme: Red Lives. Convenor: Arianna Lissoni
… of the Present. A Biography of Indian South Africans,1994–2019 (Oxford) and Colour, Class, and Community. The Natal Indian Congress and the Struggle to…
ArticleA history of Soweto
… in the development of the resistance movement against apartheid, and, possibly, instrumental in challenging the dominance of the African National Congress in…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1960-1969
… countries and individuals who were sympathetic to the anti-apartheid cause. Towards the end of the decade, the ANC held … Congress (PAC) take up anti-pass…
ArchiveA History of Botsotso by Allan Horwitz
… poetry performance group. The Jesters had come together in 1994 and consisted in its initial stages of Siphiwe ka … before. Flowing from this, the…
Nelson Mandela and the last Afrikaner leaders by Hermann Giliomee (Politics Web), 12 May 2015
… and the last Afrikaner leaders: Reconsiderations of the Apartheid Era Introduction One of the key generalisations of … of Mandela’s autobiography A Long…
Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom - Glossary
… only in white communities, particularly during the apartheid period compact – a formal agreement or contract … the liberation movements in their struggle…
ArticlePan Africanist Congress timeline 1959-2011
… was aimed at those who were perceived to be assisting the apartheid government in dispossessing people of their land. … and Thabisa Lethala sent by Leballo…
ArticleGrade 9 - Term 4: Turning points in modern South African History since 1948
… themselves. The Minister of Native Affairs declared that apartheid was a model for the world. The Minister of Justice … and the banning of the ANC and PAC…
ArticleDemocratic Alliance (DA)
… to find a clear-cut alternative to the National Party's apartheid policy. The PP took a stand on constitutional … ideals around which the PP was formed in…
ArticleExample of a local history: Pretoria
… “Pretoria” and rewriting South African history After the 1994 elections South Africa’s new government decided that … the name changes because it is a…
Margaret Thatcher's role in SA's transformation by FW de Klerk, 5 December 2016
… world. As Prime Minister Michael Manley of Jamaica put it “Apartheid in South Africa and the relationship between the … to the kind of tyranny and chaos that…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 6 Essay Questions and Answers
… for Black South Africans in the 20th century and a step to Apartheid. Discuss this statement with reference to the … Land Act and how it laid the foundation…
EventWalter Sisulu, co-founder of the ANCYL and Umkhonto we Sizwe, is born
… on the eve of South Africa's first non racial elections in 1994. He died at his home in Orlando on 5 May 2003. He is … eminent leaders of the freedom…
Whither Palestine? by Ronnie Kasrils, 19 May 2015, London
… one of the earliest works to compare Zionism with Apartheid. [i] His learned study of Jewish history, … attaining democracy through national elections in…
David Goldblatt, once and future freedom hero by Rebecca Davis (Daily Maverick), 28 November 2012, South Africa
… lives of Jews in SA and of destitute whites. But in the post-1994 era he hasn’t put down his camera. In recent years he …