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BiographyAndrew Sibusiso Zondo
… we Sizwe (MK) in Angola instead, in order to oppose the apartheid government. The 1980s was a turbulent time in … murdered, Zondo was instructed to…
BiographyMalesella Benjamin Moloise
… he was a black upholsterer and poet. He was executed by apartheid government on 18 October 1985 at Pretoria Central … was involved. The US and the Soviet…
BiographyReverend Beyers Naudé
… of heart. He had already begun to question the morality of apartheid after witnessing the destruction of Black family … Transvaal DRC synod despite his…
Opening Speech by Oliver Tambo at the International Solidarity Conference, on the theme “From Apartheid to Peace, Democracy and Development”, Johannesburg, 19 February 1993
… International Solidarity Conference, on the theme “From Apartheid to Peace, Democracy and Development”, Johannesburg, …
Statement at a special meeting of the Special Committee against Apartheid to pay tribute to Paul Robeson on his 80th birthday, April 10, 1978
… at a special meeting of the Special Committee against Apartheid to pay tribute to Paul Robeson on his 80th …
BiographyBaldwin ‘Ben’ Sipho Ngubane
Dr Baldwin ‘Ben’ Sipho Ngubane was born on 22 October 1941 at the Inchanga Roman Catholic Mission in Camperdown, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal - KZN). He…
BiographyDr. Frene Noshir Ginwala
… did not call for an overhaul of the system that led to the apartheid regime until much later. In the 1930s the ANC lost … for civil disobedience and strikes…
BiographyAbdul ‘Apamai’ Rahman Dawood
… in Marabastad, despite all the underhand attempts by the apartheid state to relocate him. Nana Sita who applied the … violent resistance in the face of…
Yunus Ismail Mahomed
… young scholar he became conscious of the inequities of the apartheid system. The train journey that he daily undertook … at Shun Chetty and Company,…
BiographyPaul Stopforth
… to a kind of witnessing and testimony in relation to apartheid-era interrogation and torture, and to the deaths in … one of the great works of art produced…
BiographyThandi Klaasen
… be strong." The attack on a young Black woman artist in apartheid Sophiatown went uninvestigated and unpunished. Under apartheid, violence against Black…
Vusi Mahlasela
… very much oblivious to the many injustices brought on by Apartheid in the country. This changed in his late teens, having been exposed to the realities of…
BiographyJeffry Dumo Baqwa
… in the headquartered in Durban. As a result of his anti apartheid political activities, Baqwa was served with a banning order by the Apartheid government in…
BiographySaleem Badat
… the 1980s becoming even more deeply involved in the anti-apartheid struggle, at considerable personal cost. At first … (2010) and Black Student Politics,…
BiographyFrederik Willem de Klerk
… create a suitable climate for negotiations which would end apartheid and bring about a new Constitutional dispensation … and other party leaders were held…
BiographyBen Mclennan
… desperation and poverty of people forced to move under the apartheid government’s resettlement policy. Mclennan sought to document the structural oppression…
Document 141 “Apartheid Spells Disaster”, Report of the Central Committee of the Communist Party to the Party’s National Conference, Johannesburg,6 to 8 January 1950,2y Freedom, New Series 15 December, 1949
… Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 141 "Apartheid Spells Disaster", Report of the Central Committee … not a Non-European organisation [--I not…
Thomas G. Karis
… relations. In his dissertation, reviewing legislation on child labor and fair labor standards from 1906 …
BiographyReverend Zaccheus Richard Mahabane
… from the common voters' roll. In order to oppose Hertzog's legislation, the All-African Convention (AAC) was formed in …
BiographySandile Ngcobo
… From August of that year he taught a course on race legislation, also at the University of Natal. He was …
BiographyVictor Sidney Norton
… Times threw itself into the battle against the wave of legislation that removed coloured voters in the Cape from the …
ArchiveBlue-Blooded Afrikaner as Anti-Apartheid Revolution, by John Battersby, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 July 1989
… Blue-Blooded Afrikaner as Anti-Apartheid Revolution, by John Battersby, The Christian …
BiographyJuda Ngwenya
… Ngwenya photographed conflict during South Africa's apartheid years as well as times of great hope, including the … gave him a framed photograph of the…
BiographyWilliam Kentridge
… was born in 1955 in Johannesburg. Son of two anti-apartheid lawyers, he learned at an early age to question … whose work tracks a personal route across the…
BiographyElsa Joubert
… adversity and struggle of a humble black woman under Apartheid laws - had a major impact, both in the literary … The plot reflected the brutality and…
BiographyBarbara Anne Hogan
… a group of students who actively opposed policies of the Apartheid government and became involved in their campaigns. … and mobilizing leftwing white people…
BiographyWillie Esterhuyse
… his country, realised the futility of trying to sustain Apartheid. In an attempt to forestall a bloodbath and at … and political issues. His numerous…
BiographyJosiah Khiphusizi Jele
… was exposed to the harsh conditions of colonialism and apartheid at an early age. His home-town was characterised by grinding poverty, police harassment…
BiographyCurnick Muzuvukile Ndlovu
… in exposing agents sent by the government to disrupt anti apartheid activities in the trade union movement. In 1961 … which plunged Durban into darkness…
’Act with sense of urgency’, Speech by Oliver Tambo at the meeting of the United Nations Special Committee against Apartheid, New York, 11 June 1981
… meeting of the United Nations Special Committee against Apartheid, New York, 11 June 1981 …