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PlacePollsmoor Prison
… to his release. Walter Sisulu and Ahmed Kathrada , both anti-apartheid activists, were also incarcerated at Pollsmoor …
EventProtest against pass laws in Langa
… - not having a pass?" Click here to read more about the anti-pass campaign. …
EventHezekiel Sepeng is born
… for the banned steroid norandrosterone by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA). As a result, he was banned from …
EventThe English Cricket Council calls off South African cricket tour
… all-White composition of the South African team among the anti-Apartheid activists and countries that were opposed to …
EventDorothy Fischer becomes the first South African woman to undergo a heart transplant
… the middle 1980s did researchers develop cyclosporin, an anti-rejection drug that is still used. Barnard was fond of …
EventSouth Africa’s new constitution is approved
… was the embodiment of the vision of generations of anti-apartheid freedom fighters and democrats who had fought …
EventCrime statistics released
… development, several car manufacturers decided to have anti-theft devices fitted in their cars. …
EventHelen Zille, former leader of the Democratic Alliance, is born in Johannesburg
… Movement leader Steve Biko. In the 1980s she joined the anti-Apartheid organisation the Black Sash . In the 1990s …
EventDr David Webster, a social anthropologist at Wits University and political activist, is shot dead outside his home
… Webster became involved in politics. He was active in the anti-apartheid movement, especially in the Detainees’ …
EventThe birth of the Treatment Action Campaign
… there was nothing that could be done to stop it. Although anti-AIDS drugs had changed the face of the epidemic in … do nothing while people kept dying," said…
Eye of the Needle - Chapter 3 - South Africa: Culture and Conflict
… whether they are British artisans going to Australia or Indian doctors going to Britain. Did anything like this … this occurred their tribal structure…
EventRand Daily Mail publishes exposé of conditions in Homelands
… The Rand Daily Mail became South Africa’s most influential anti-Apartheid newspaper, known for its courageous and …
ArchiveMandla Mandela wants inquest into deaths of Stompie Seipie, Dr Asvat, 19 January 2018, South Africa
… Mandela, has called for an inquest into the deaths of anti-apartheid activists Stompie Seipei and Abu-Baker Asvat …
ArchiveThe Pan African Congress venture in retrospect: a Non-European Unity Movement pamphlet
… PAC breaking away from the ANC, and then the launch of the Anti-Pass Campaign,the liberals seem to have taken control of …
EventThe SACBC urges that lawful means be used to resist Apartheid
… African Catholic Bishops' Conference (SACBC) issued an anti-Apartheid letter, stating that lawful means must be used …
EventMembers of Mau Mau uprising in Kenya to receive death penalty for resisting colonial rule
… and to force them to renounce their allegiance to the anti-colonial cause …
EventEgypt is placed under martial law in response to widespread riots against the British
… From 1951 to 1952 Egypt was ravaged by violence and anti-British protest. In October 1951 the Egyptian Parliament … alhafeez, (1999), Anti Ahmadiyaa Movement…
EventAbdullah Abdurahman, medical doctor and Cape community leader, dies in Cape Town
… on this day at the age of 69. Founder and leader of the anti-apartheid African People's Organisation (APO) , he was … His death raised concern within the…
EventSA joins World War II
… This step caused bitter dissent amongst the pro-war and anti-war sections. References: Potgieter, D.J. et al. …
EventUDF organises boycott of Coloured and Indian parliamentry elections
… 1984 the United Democratic Front, an internal coalition of anti-apartheid groups, organised highly successful boycotts of the Coloured and Indian elections…
EventBlack People Convention is formed
… and apartheid policies. When the party assumed a radical anti apartheid political agenda the government began to … Anti-Apartheid Struggle, (1946), ' Anti…
EventLucas Mangope leaves Mmabatho due to uprising
… free political activity in Bophuthatswana, a member of the anti-election Freedom Alliance. His stance caused widespread …
EventNP demands apology from TRC
… claims that the pre-1994 governments ordered the murder of anti-apartheid activists. Because the State Security Council …
EventDesmond Tutu is appointed TRC chairperson
… Anti-apartheid activist and Nobel laureate Archbishop Mpilo …
EventNRP leader, Vause Raw announces that his party is ready to give the President’s Council a chance
… started splintering after 1959 when MPs, including veteran anti-apartheid fighter Helen Suzman. …
EventMark Thatcher arrested
… 25 August 2004. Thatcher was charged under South Africa's anti-mercenary laws in connection with an alleged coup …
A chronology of meetings between South Africans and the ANC in exile 1983-2000 by Michael Savage
… or persons involved from the draconian SA security legislation then existing. As the pace of these meetings sped … a fuller list of those present.) October…
Links & Partnerships
… Stories and People General South African History Websites Anti-Apartheid and Southern Africa - Background . For those … to the international solidarity…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 84th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1996
… of the historic Passive Resistance Campaign waged by the Indian people in 1946; the 40th anniversary of the adoption … Among other things, this will require…
Speech by President Nelson Mandela at a banquet in honour of her majesty Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands Pretoria, 30 September 1996
… and days before the start of the Pan Africanist Congress' Anti Pass campaign. PAC Campaign will be test Contact 19 … Extract from Robert Sobukwe's speech on…