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Forming the Federation
… you must get when you are 16 and it says where you can work, and where you can be, and if you have got work. You can't get a job without this book. And you…
EventPolice constable is buried alive at Ackerville cemetery near Witbank
… of security forces were targets of attacks by anti -apartheid militants in the political struggle. The killers of …
ArchiveAn investigation into the effect of race and politics on the development of South African sport (1970-1979)
… sport; Legislation and South African sport; The anti-apartheid sports movements and South Africa's sport …
ArchiveAn investigation into the effect of race and politics on the development of South African sport (1970-1979
… sport; Legislation and South African sport; The anti-apartheid sports movements and South Africa's sport …
EventHuman Rights Day is celebrated for the first time in South Africa
… as well as other innumerable acts of violence under Apartheid, are what inspired South Africa's famously …
EventTanganyika formally ends all trade ties with South Africa
… that the US and UK heeded the call for a boycott of the apartheid state. … Ngeleza B. and Nieuwhof A. (2004), ‘Sanctions against apartheid South Africa…
EventThe Riotous Assemblies Act Commences
… Act No 74 of 1982 Click here for more on South African Apartheid legislation. …
EventFormer premier of Mpumalanga, Afrikaans poet and lawyer, Mathews Phosa is born
… tipped off by the ANC's Counter-Intelligence Unit that the Apartheid security forces were planning to kill him by means …
EventAfrican leaders issue a call for African unity
… T. Bokwe, and L.K. Ntlabati. They were protesting against apartheid and its dangers to African education, freedom of …
EventFormer NP member Roelf Meyer is born
… Development, a post he previous held under the apartheid regime. In 1997, Meyer and Bantu Holomisa formed …
EventWinnie Mandela is elected ANCWL president
… one of the most recognised faces of the struggle agaisnt apartheid. Several productions depicting her life have been …
EventThe SA Cricket team is re-admitted to international cricket
… a resolution taken against the South African government's apartheid policy. This led to South Africa playing only …
EventUnited Front launch in jeopardy
… implicated organisations of either having participated in apartheid structures or for their racial make-up. The move of …
EventDulcie September is assassinated in Paris
… trade (including nuclear material) between France and the Apartheid government in South Africa. Sergeant-Major Joseph …
EventThe Congress of Traditional Leaders of South Africa (Contralesa) is launched
… ANC's most important rural partners. After the demise of Apartheid, Contralesa campaigned for the constitutional … in South Africa: law, power & culture in…
EventZola Budd breaks a world record
… place without any publicity that might have attracted anti-apartheid demonstrators as South Africa was banned from …
EventSol Kerzner admits to the Harms Commission, that he has paid R2m for the personal benefit of Chief George Matanzima
… Kerzner has a reputation of being connected to both the apartheid government and the ANC government. He has since …
EventThe Esso Oil Company closes its business in South Africa
… the hope that they could contribute in the eradication of apartheid and achievement of equality. One of the companies …
Christmas message of the Deputy President of the ANC, Nelson Mandela December 1990
… driven by the spirit of goodwill towards one another as we work together for the rebirth of South Africa as a non-racial … on our roads. Above all, let us…
PlaceTrafalgar High School
… In the time of Education and its opposition to the Apartheid system, (when many students and teachers were … Street. As a School that had existed through the…
ArchiveSouth Africa’s Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew
… Congress to be Revived: Leaders' Co-ordinating Committee's Work", South African Worker, 4 September 1937 Document 109 - … 1938) Document 114 - (National…
ArticleSouth Africa before and in the build up to 1899
… Cape Colony in 1890. Rhodes was from Britain and had made his fortune in South Africa by mining diamonds. He was also a … to stop the raid, but it was too…
ArticleSecond Anglo-Boer War - 1899 - 1902
… Cape Colony in 1890. Rhodes was from Britain and had made his fortune in South Africa by mining diamonds. He was also a … to stop the raid, but it was too…
EventSACTU launches a national potato boycott.
… (now Mpumalanga), recruited workers were expected to work long hours on farms in extreme weather conditions, …
EventSouth African History Online goes live
… expression and open access to knowledge. SAHO continues to work to strengthen research and education in the field of …
Address by Selby Msimang, President, Industrial and Commercial Workers’ Union of South Africa, July 23, 1921
… of South Africa, Mr. Selby Msimang (president) delivered his annual address. He began by congratulating the visiting … They were again reassembled that day…
ArchiveNew Deal? South Africa 1983
… Centre in Cape Town. It was a broad coalition of anti apartheid organizations that opposed the government's …
Turning Points Books 1-6
… by The Department of Education Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid commissioned by The Department of Education Book 6: …
EventInternational Labour Organisation excludes South Africa from its two-day meeting
… South Africa was faced with many challenges because of its apartheid policies. At one stage South African goods were …
EventFEDSAW Western Cape Region launched
… in the 1950s and conducted a massive campaign against apartheid laws, the pass laws in particular. FEDSAW was multi … on 29 August 1987’ , from South Africa…