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Document 21 - ANC National Consultative Conference: resolutions for the coming year
… of unprecedented mobilisation of the country against the apartheid regime. The power of organised workers, under the … This was particularly ambitious in the…
EventNamibian artist, John Ndevasia Muafangejo, dies
… Ndevasia Muafangejo died suddenly of a heart attack at his home in Katutura Township, Windhoek. He was 44 years old. … Angola. He came from the Kwanyama…
EventSA Artist, Father Frans Claerhout, is born
… on this day in Pittem, western Belgium. After completing his studies, he immigrated to South Africa in 1946 as a … He served primarily in Bloemfontein,…
EventGideon Scheepers executed
… arson and demolishing of trains. Scheepers admitted during his trial that he had committed acts of arson, but claimed that he had acted at all times on the…
Edwin Mofutsanyana the oldest Communist in Africa: Flyer for briefing by Edwin Mofutsanyana. August, 1991
… African regional differences have been fostered by the apartheid system. Irrespective of whether they arise from ethnic factors or vested interests nurtured…
South African Prime Ministers from the National Party
… below). P. W. Botha became the new State President, until his resignation in 1989, when he was replaced by F. W. de …
ArticleKKNK – Klein Karoo Nasionale Kunstefees
… and indeed, defend, the place of Afrikaans culture in post-apartheid South Africa. Barrow was the chairman of the …
List of deaths in detention
… Detaining and imprisoning those who went against the Apartheid state was one of the many weapons that the …
EventAhmadou Kourouma, Ivorian novelist dies in France
… CÁ´te d'Ivoire gained independence in 1960, he returned to his home country. Unhappy with his post- colonial new reality, Kourouma expressed his grievances…
EventJazz veteran Dorothy Masuka dies
… to release more songs until one of her songs about apartheid laws was banned. She then went into exile where she … to music and the role she played in the…
EventSASO founder and Black Consciousness leader, Steve Biko dies in detention
… in the outskirts of Grahamstown on 18 August 1977. During his detention in a Port Elizabeth police cell he had been … been stripped naked and kept in leg…
EventBoutros Boutros Ghali, former UN Secretary General, is born
… University of Cairo. With an impressive academic career as his basis, Ghali started his political career as a member of the Arab Socialist Union … Secretary…
PlaceDorkay House (1952)
… of Ian Bernhardt. The Union was formed in response to the apartheid government’s restrictions on creative freedom for …
A Dialogue in Partnership with Kaya FM - MyConstitution Exhibition
… negotiated transition, one that turned a country under apartheid into a modern and peaceful democracy. The …
ArchiveAfrica South Vol.3 No.1 Oct-Dec 1958
… de Crespigny. The Village and the Castle, Owen Williams. Apartheid in Nursing-a Challenge, an African Nurse and Fr. …
EventPrime Minister opens SA's first atomic reactor
… The former Prime Minister of South Africa and apartheid mastermind, Dr H.F. Verwoerd opened South Africa's …
EventANC launches mass boycott of Bantu Education
… to the administration of education for blacks under the Apartheid system of racial discrimination. High standards of …
EventP.W. Botha and Kenneth Kaunda in a historic meeting
… the African press for meeting with representatives of the Apartheid regime. Sources …
EventRight wing Wit Kommando bombs academic’s office
… foreign White expatriates opposed to any relaxing of apartheid principles, claimed responsibility for the bomb …
EventJournalists’ first visit to Robben Island
… north east of Cape Town, political prisoners of the anti-apartheid movement were kept together with hardened …
EventSA signs diplomatic relations with Vietnam
… With the processes of the dismantling of the apartheid system and preparations for democratic rule under …
EventFourteen are killed in Phola Park violence
… A Crime Against Humanity: analysing the repression of the apartheid state, Johannesburg: Human Rights Committee, p. 266. …
EventSchools closed in the Western Cape
… in many parts of the country in protest against the apartheid system. The major grievance of the students was the …
EventThe Sunday Times political journalist is suspended
… Press alleged that Ngcuka could have been an agent for the Apartheid government. Munusamy resigned before disciplinary …
EventOrganisations forward applicants for amnesty to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission
… court-like body assembled in South Africa after the end of Apartheid. Anybody who felt they had been a victim of …
EventUniversity of Pretoria is established
… on 13 September 1932. Since 1994 and the end of apartheid considerable transformation has taken place. The …
Dawn
… the necessity for a broad front of attack on the apartheid government. Calls were made for participation and …
EventANC stalwart, Albertina Sisulu dies in Johannesburg
… was a nurse and one of the most important leaders of anti-Apartheid resistance in South Africa. It was with Walter that …
New Age
… and Coloureds of South Africa and showcased the reality of apartheid focusing on the socio-political and economic …
81. The People’s Candidates Party and the Lenasia Management Committee
… for registering our protests against the injustices of the apartheid system. ... However, the announcement of the 'new … separate units will in effect become…