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Letter from Oliver Tambo to Sir Geoffrey Howe, United Kingdom Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, 21 July 1986
… evade and indefinitely postpone decisive action to end the apartheid system. In this regard, the statements repeatedly … decisive international action to…
PlaceCiskei
… for the South Africa's Xhosa -speaking people as part of apartheid racial segregation . The area was relatively small … the target of popular anger in the…
The attack of Syria by Israel, 7 May 2013
… respect the sovereignty of Syria and to allow Syrians to work together in resolving their disputes. Issued by: Jessie …
PlaceZonderwater
… was personnel because, in 1970 he left Panama Italy, to work as an engineer on Cohora Bassa Dam in Mozambique. …
PlaceDutch Reformed Mission Institute, Cape Town
… in the district, is a landmark in the history of mission work in South Africa. It is still used by the people of …
EventSA artist Tshela Matsoso is born
… at the Sao Paulo Biennale. He was also commissioned to do work for the State Theatre in Pretoria. …
EventDr. Dadoo and Naicker lead Passive Resisters
… on which all the shops were shut and no-one went to work or did any shopping, throughout the country. Mass … [Accessed on 11 June 2013]| Overcoming Apartheid…
Coal Miners Strike on the Rand
… White miners meant that the 180 000 Black workers had no work either. The strike escalated into a large-scale revolt …
EventWorkers embark on strike action
… compounds and the harsh conditions under which they had to work. In particular they complained about beatings that they …
EventThe Anglo-Boer War 1 (Transvaal War of Independence) begins
… of the Transvaal revoked. These attempts did not work. So on 8 December 1880 between 8 000 and 10 000 Boers …
PlaceFernkloof Nature Reserve, Caledon
… of Hermanus , pushed it through administrative channels. His love for the environment had brought him into touch, Dr … Caledon division. A small nursery was…
PlaceJohn Vorster Square Police Station or Johannesburg Central Police Station
… cells were on the lower floors of the building. During the Apartheid era, this Police Station, was notoriously known as a site of interrogation, torture and…
PlaceADAMS CALENDAR also known as: 'Blaauwboschkraal Stone Ruins'
… discovered by accident when one of Johan's crew crashed his plane. After safely rescuing his crew member, Johan walked over to some stone monoliths …
Statement in Court by Dr G. M. Naicker and Dr Y. M. Dadoo, When Charged With Aiding and Abetting Under the Immigrants Regulation Act of 1913, February 26, 1948
… reasonable to presume that the then Minister exceeded his powers in deeming the whole Indian community to be … State in which our multi-racial population…
Address on disturbances in Bloemfontein location, by I. J. Nthatisi, March 4, 1919
… of the opportunity we have to lay before you and before his Worship the Mayor that this agitation for an increase of … of mind, averted a catastrophe on…
PlaceKwaNdebele
… , which has a section covering the Ndebele and the Apartheid state . …
EventThe QwaQwa homeland receives self-government status
… one of the ten homelands in South Africa introduced by the apartheid government. It was home to the Batlokoa and Bakwena …
EventANC command structure in the Western Cape is arrested.
… the creation of national unity, and the nature of post-apartheid South Africa. The talks continued in Ghana and …
EventSA Prime Minister completes a tour of homelands in the Northern Transvaal
… was emphasized. The Homelands were at the centre of apartheid’s policy of separate development, aimed at …
EventA delegation of seven Coloured leaders meets with SA Prime Minister Vorster to discuss the future of the Coloured community
… the government that the present political dispensation of apartheid was unacceptable. … , ‘Coloured Labour Party strengthened its stance against apartheid , …
EventMandela is awarded the Joliot Curie Gold Medal for Peace
… African Indian Congress (SAIC) and the leader of the anti-apartheid movement in Britain. Source: Leader Newspaper. …
EventMinister reports 23 acts of sabotage in RSA
… government had already arrested sixty Black suspected anti-apartheid activists. Sources: Books: Kalley, J.A.; Schoeman, …
EventP.W. Botha becomes SA’s first Executive President
… they viewed the new constitution as a means to enhance apartheid. …
EventDe Klerk and Mandela receive UNESCO peace prize
… award was given to them for their brave effort in ending apartheid, thus bringing peaceful negotiations for a …
EventMandela addresses ANC rally in Durban
… Buthelezi, for the role he had played in opposing apartheid. Mandela also emphasised the need for a single …
EventLocal elections in Townships
… 1980s, which attempted to co-opt Black leaders into the Apartheid system without sharing power, the government …
EventANC makes first submission to TRC
… of its record and strategy during its campaign against Apartheid. The document expressed the ANC's full support and …
EventPutin visits South Africa
… support from Moscow during its many years of fighting apartheid. …
EventTranskei announces it is re-establishing diplomatic relations with South Africa
… back to the late 1970s when Transkei demanded areas the apartheid government had designated as “white” to be part of …
EventGhanaian President Kwame Nkrumah calls on world leaders to impose “total economic and political sanctions” on South Africa
… leaders to impose sanctions on South Africa because of its Apartheid policies. African harbours were closed to the South …