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EventNavanethem (Navi) Pillay is born
… Navanethem (Navi) Pillay, the United Nations (UN) High Commissioner for Human Rights was born on 23 … for Human Rights , [online], Available at www.un.org …
ArchiveForward to a Peoples Government
… African National Congress response to P W Botha's announcement that he would summon a …
ArchiveStatement of the African National Congress of South Africa on the occasion of the meeting in Lusaka on April 1st 1980 of the Heads of Independent States in Southern Africa
… on its liberation and examines White South Africa's response. …
PlaceHobeni
Hobeni is a Village in Mbhashe Local Municipality in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. The Mbhashe Municipality is a remote outpost of the Eastern…
"Form united front now": Interview with Albert Luthuli, 5 May 1962
… the whole of South Africa against "the fascist measure." Response "I am pleased to state that already my appeal, which has been published in a Durban daily,…
ArchiveTestimony of Bishop Manas Buthelezi in the court proceedings: The State versus W.W.C. Twala and 10 others (SSRC Trial)
… versus W W C Twala and 10 others. The Bishop testifies in response to the investigtion into the Bishop's participation …
ArchiveNow Cape Town...Now Langa too is burning
… of Cape Town students of a mass meeting to be held in response to the political turmoil that had begun to affect …
BiographyNokukhanya Luthuli
… and the fact that he did not pester her to receive a response. After eight more months of courtship, she agreed to …
The South African History Online (SAHO) Graduate Internship Programme
… apartheid in buildings located in previous South African homelands. His study aims to generate – through photographic …
Article”People’s Power!”, 1986
… also cases of protest against the homeland system in other homelands, but again the UDF again was not actively involved. …
Document 17 - The Groote Schuur Minute
… were wrong. The parcelling of our country into tribal homelands and reservoirs of cheap labour was wrong. So much …
PlaceCrossroads Township
… or permits from the women who came all the way from the homelands (predominantly Ciskei and Transkei ) to visit their …
ArchiveRepression of the United Democratic Front under state of attack
… as President Botha said the month saw increased government response to the United Democratic Front, both in words and in …
ArchivePolitical Report
… South African economy, economic development, the people's response, the political crisis of the ruling party and the …
Eye of the Needle - Chapter 9 - Postscript - South Africa: The Present as History
… unit has its own legislature, based on the so-called homelands. The homelands are economically non-viable. Their … and actual corruption. It would be…
ArticleNew identities and the construction of heritage
… in January 2007, the first time the country has sat on the UN's most powerful organ. New heritage sites were created …
ArticleBiko’s imprisonment, death and the aftermath
… to the West’s decision to support the United Nations (UN) Security Council vote to ban mandatory arms sales to …
ArticleYouth and the National Liberation Struggle
… had been participating in numerous political campaigns in response to measures and laws affecting Black people. In the … Many considered the African National…
PlaceMthatha, Eastern Cape- previously known as Umtata
Mthatha, founded in 1879, was declared the Capital of the Transkei, the homeland of the Xhosa during the Apartheid era. The former Transkei is now part of the…
EventSouth African cricket player Aubrey Faulkner, great all-rounder in the early 20th century, is born
… could send a googly at great speed, rendering it nearly un-hittable. His career was full of remarkable performances. …
List of Laws on Land Dispossession and Segregation
… one sixth of Members of Parliament (MPs) elected. Thus, in response to pressure by the Afrikaner Bond, the Franchise and … the creation of eight (later…
ArticlePass Laws and Sharpeville Massacre
… the Union that the PAC's campaign received its strongest response, a question that can only be answered by examining … War II and continued growing into the…
ArchiveThe Emperor has no Clothes by Liz Timbs
… February 1990, signaling the final years of Apartheid. In response to the new presence of the ANC in South Africa as a … tin-pot dictators to the people…
EventThe Rand Revolt Ends
… Rand Revolt, ended on March 18 1922. The rebellion was a response by White mineworkers to a perceived injustice that …
ArchiveLetter from R F Botha to The Honourable Alexander H Haig Jr, Secretary of State, United States of America
… Cuban withdrawal of troops from Angola. Incudes the response of 23 September 1981, of the South African …
PlaceAbangani Art Centre, Durban
… and an arts and craft teacher. Abangani was formed as a response to the demand of Black students who wanted an art …
Comments and Observations on Proposals for a United Nations Security Council Resolution on Apartheid by O. R. Tambo, 1963
… Africa should not be allowed to continue reducing the UN, including the Security Council, to a debating society and … The result would be to make it even…
Documents, speeches, Awards, and articles relating to Desmond Tutu
… 11, 1984 . Statement by archbishop Desmond Tutu in response to decision by the ned geref kerk in the eastern …
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 2011 - 2020
… Tatane was among 4 000 protestors demanding a response from the municipality after they had handed over a … bid to become a full member of the United Nations…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1990s
… in Lusaka. March, Violence erupts in South Africa's 'homelands'. Ciskei falls in a military coup. 2 March, The … admits to failure of its 'homeland' policy…