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ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1980s
… detention on 27 February 1980. 1980 12 January, A British Sports Council team begins a three-week fact-finding tour of … June, The ANC issues a call for the…
A City within a city: Vestiges of the socio-spatial imprint of colonial and apartheid Durban, from the 1870s to 1980s by Leonard Glenn Rosenberg
… Central to the life of this "town" was Currie’s Fountain sports ground, popularly known as "Currie’s", which served as a sports, cultural and political…
EventSewsunkerlal Bahadur Singh dies in Durban
… He was born in 1890 and played an active role in SA sports as, inter alia, president of the South African … (SAFA). Singh was also a regular contributor to…
Speech by Oliver Tambo on the occasion of the award of an honorary Doctorate to Nelson Mandela by the Karl Marx University of the German Democratic Republic, 11 November 1987, Leipzig
… two most pressing issues confronting humanity are national liberation and peace. The peace initiatives taken by the USSR … the architect of the apartheid…
Speech on the Occasion of the Award of an Honorary Doctorate to Nelson Mandela by The Karl Marx University of the German Democratic Republic by O. R. Tambo, Leipzig, 11 November 1987
… two most pressing issues confronting humanity are national liberation and peace. The peace initiatives taken by the USSR … the architect of the apartheid…
Second World War and its impact, 1939-1948
… ANC in 1940 © www.anc.org.za In the face of oppression, liberation movements such as the African National Congress, … white government, but the question then…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 3 Essay Questions
… [1] Introduction : A number of scholars agree that race was part of the Enlightenment project that resulted from … before this period, but the ‘modern’…
EventRSA golf team is expelled from Greece
… to condemn all practices of racial segregation in sports. Click here to read resolution of the International Convention Against Apartheid in Sports. … SAHO,…
EventSA is readmitted to the IOC
… abolition of Apartheid laws, the non-racial unification of sports bodies and normalisation of relations with sports bodies elsewhere in Africa. The country…
PlaceAdams College, Amanzimtoti
… for learners from all walks of life, irrespective of race, religion, culture or creed, with the best academic and …
PlaceGroote Schuur High School
… The school also has a library. The school has two sports fields: Inversnaid Sports Field and Vredenhof Sports Field; tennis courts, netball courts, a…
ArticleApartheid and reactions to it
… during this period. After the 1948 elections, as the liberation movements intensified their efforts, the … Act in 1950. However, in a determined reaction,…
EventLouis Raymond, an Olympic tennis singles gold medalist is born
… 2015). ↵ [iii]David van Lill, Van Lill’s South African Sports Trivia (Cape Town: Zebra Press, 2005), p. 199. ↵ [iv]David van Lill, Van Lill’s South African…
EventMichael “Muis” Roberts, South Africa’s best jockey is born
… ↵ [ii] David van Lill, Van Lill’s South African Sports Trivia (Cape Town: Zebra Press, 2005), p. 219. ↵ [iii] … ↵ [iv] David van Lill, Van Lill’s South…
Statement by Oliver Tambo on ANC`s seventieth anniversary: Appeal to the world, 02 December 1981
… National Congress invites friends and supporters of our liberation struggle to join with the South African people in … an organisation that would serve as an…
EventTrade unionist, Barend Erasmus dies
… about sport, Erasmus founded the Johannesburg Municipal Sports Club. He was a member of South African Council of … with disciplinary measures of the…
PlaceMoorreesburg
… hill and the Mis v erstand Dam is very popular for water sports with locals and visitors alike. The original road from …
ArchiveOttilie Abrahams: An Honest and Upright Person by Harry Boesak (Pambazuka News), 14 July 2018
… the early 1950s, she was a member of the Young Tigers Sports Club in Windhoek, a club that was a front for reading … suffocating and stifling political…
Origins: Formation, Sharpeville and banning, 1959-1960
… was continually introducing new means to suppress the liberation struggle. Many members of the African National … of the ANC (at the time the ANC was made up…
ArticleThe Group Areas Act of 1950
… to develop separately (South African Institute for Race Relations, 1950: 26). When the Group Areas Act (GAA) was … as 'group areas', where only people of a…
PlaceKyalami Grand Prix Circuit
… result of extreme winter conditions. The 9 Hour Endurance race meeting held in November of each Year attracted many famous race teams to the Southern tip of…
EventHestrie Cloete, world champion high jumper, is born
… Johannesburg on 26 August 1978. She began participating in sports at an early age. Her long-time coach, Martin Marx, … After the 2004 Olympics, Cloete…
EventSouth Africa's first democratic elections
… Following a series of tense negotiations and years of liberation struggle, the first democratic election was held …
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the Commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of 1956 Women’s March: Union Buildings, Tshwane, 9 August 2006
… but also to give further impetus to the struggle for our liberation from apartheid. We have also gathered here to … leaders, educators, health workers,…
Resistance Photography and Mobilization of the Resistance, 1946-1976
… and prompted a special investigation by the Institute of Race Relations, which confirmed the article's reports and was … and tried for high treason. However,…
ArticleDutch Reformed Church (DRC)
… stratification of the people of South Africa according to race. The social segregation of Black, Coloured and White … a sin in the hope of uniting its…
ArchiveResisting apartheid through pen and paper by Richard Rive, 05 March 2018
… knows about the thousands of protesters that yielded the liberation of the non-White South African population. Someone … force in establishing the Western…
ArticleThe ANC’s MK Special Ops Unit Material - Yunus Carrim Collection - 6 November 2025
… role of the armed struggle in the overall ANC-led national liberation struggle. Apart from Special Ops, there were … four “pillars” constituted the ANC’s…
Document 120 - Draft Programme of the Communist Party of South Africa (c. 1940)41
… MOSES M. KOTANE , Secretary. 3. The Struggle for National Liberation The Communist Party is pledged to work unceasingly … and of opportunity can a solution…
EventSandra Reynolds, a South African tennis champion is born
… 2015). ↵ [iii] David van Lill, Van Lill’s South African Sports Trivia (Cape Town: Zebra Press, 2005), p. 199. ↵ [iv] David van Lill, Van Lill’s South African…