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Archive2009 - President Motlanthe, State of the Nation Address, 6 February 2009 (Before National Elections)
… years, I wish to acknowledge the commitment and hard work of Presidents Nelson Mandela and Thabo Mbeki and the … Kalushi Mahlangu who went to the gallows 30…
ArticleA history of Kwaito music
… keep a ready supply of cheap labour under control by the apartheid government. Many groups have begun to be exposed to …
Journals
… History is now regarded as a dynamic discipline, in apartheid South Africa it tended to be associated with …
Interview with Oliver Tambo by Le Monde, Addis Ababa, 08 June 1983
… armed struggle until final victory is achieved over the apartheid regime. "Those who died this morning," Mr. Tambo … own operations show an escalation in the…
Chapter 3 - Gumede’s role in NNC and SANNC Politics, 1909 – 1919 ‘We pray that the people be allowed to live in peace in their own land’.
… session Frederick Moor took an unyielding stance that his government did not favour the uniform application of a … The plight of the two Sotho tribes took up…
The Role of the Missionaries in conquest - Chapter X - Triumph of disunity (2)
… of the baSotho, but he is not the central figure. To tell his story would to tell the story of the Builder of a Nation … Before the Whites appeared on the…
EventRuth First is assassinated in Mozambique
… Ruth First , journalist, academic, anti-apartheid activist and member of the South African Communist … with her husband, Joe Slovo , during the height of…
EventCiskei National Security Decree No 19 promulgated
… Act, which was used to crush resistance against the Apartheid government Click here for a broader chronology of apartheid legislation. Click here to read a…
EventWinnie Mandela attacked by a group of people
… Supreme Court in Cape Town. She blamed the attack on the apartheid government, which, she said, was working hard to … her husband. Because the Qunta family…
EventWhite sympathisers join evicted Black squatters in a protest
… squatters from three camps. In the 1970s and 80s the Apartheid government embarked on a concerted effort of … had acquired legal status as a place of…
"Our struggle is for progress": Statement by Albert Luthuli, 15 June 1962
… for freedom and democracy in this country," he said. His statement continued:] On the occasion of June 26, 1962, I … and democratic South Africa, free from…
The Democratic Party (DP)
… to find a clear-cut alternative to the National Party's apartheid policy. The PP took its stand on constitutional … to fight the 1987 general election. Only…
Introduction
… constitutional dispensation in line with the ideology of apartheid had now to be made to accommodate the Indians. This … participated in the President's…
ArticleUniversity of Pretoria 2015-2016 Student Protests Timeline
… to UP then increased dramatically since the end of Apartheid in 1994. The demographics of the University have … this proposal. A consultation process with…
ArchiveFrom eNcome over Bloedrivier to eNcome and Beyond by Ben Khumalo-Seegelken
… scholarship; responsible citizenry; ‘die Groot Trek’; Apartheid; Voortrekker-monument(s) … and surroundings with initiatives and ventures to defy apartheid…
EventThe English Cricket Council calls off South African cricket tour
… composition of the South African team among the anti-Apartheid activists and countries that were opposed to the Apartheid government of South Africa. For…
EventCOSATU conference prohibited and organisers restricted
… The government prohibited an anti-apartheid conference organised by COSATU in Cape Town, which … aimed to include delegates from a broad spectrum of anti…
EventAfrikaans is used for the first time in an international document with the signing of the Convention of Mozambique in Pretoria
… Mozambique in Pretoria. The language’s close link with the apartheid government has meant that it has inherited the legacy of being the oppressor’s language…
2004 New Year’s Eve Broadcast, 30 December 2003
… deprivation. Together we must reaffirm our commitment to work together with those in our country who are poor and … of Letsema. We must draw many more of our…
Speech at the Meeting of Representatives of the Parties and Movements Participating in the Celebration of the 70th Anniversary of the "Great October Socialist Revolution" by O. R. Tambo, Moscow, November 4-5, 1987
… the remaining bastilles of colonial and racist oppression. Apartheid Aggression However, more than forty years after the successful conclusion of the Second…
Extract from a speech made in the House of Assembly on January 1976 in reply to a motion of no confidence in the Government by the Leader of the Opposition
… just what Albert Hertzog would have liked, and what he and his people are now reproaching us for - what this would have … of his own society. Powerful vested…
PlaceLesotho
… of the population, have family members that migrate for work prospects, to a neighbouring Country like South Africa. … the British at the Cape . Despite…
Message by Oliver Tambo on the 40th anniversary of the three doctors` pact, 09 March 1987
… spearheading the campaign for international action against apartheid and support for our liberation struggle. This role … of inspiration and strength for all…
PlaceLebowa
… During the apartheid period, Lebowa was the homeland of the North Sotho … Under the South African constitution that abolished the apartheid system, Lebowa…
EventMandela signs SA Constitution into law
… and set in motion processes that laid the foundation for apartheid. On 21 March 1960 police opened fire on a crowd … This resulted in the negotiations for…
EventSA artist Mmakgoba Sebidi is born
… abstraction and collage. She described this change in her work: "First I kept on drawing figures in the studio, feet, … scholarship to travel to the USA and…
ArticleBasotho Wars 1858 - 1868
… larger unit of Southern Sotho groups, who had fallen under his centralized authority due to competition for resources, … protection from other marauding…
PAC Constitution - Extract from Karis & Carter
… right of self-determination for the African people. (c) To work and strive for the establishment and maintenance of an … organ of the P.A.C. (c) No person…
EventRand Daily Mail publishes exposé of conditions in Homelands
… Daily Mail became South Africa’s most influential anti-Apartheid newspaper, known for its courageous and liberal … audiences in the United Kingdom,…
EventMiriam Makeba returns to South Africa
… musical King Kong and was barred from returning when the apartheid government revoked her passport in 1960. During her … addressed the United Nations twice…