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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’ …
ArticleThe World and South Africa when Nelson Mandela was born
… faction of the German Social Democratic Party that was anti-war.It agitated for mass strikes among workers to end … in Vol 12 (1987), pp. 72-92.| Mantzaris,…
Afrikaner Newspapers and the newspaper industry from 1830
… was published on 15 January 1876. The newspaper took an anti-English, anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist stance, decrying free trade in goods, …
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…
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 …
EventNelson Mandela appeals for calm after the assassination of Communist Party chief, Chris Hani
… the murder was carefully orchestrated by Janusz Walus, an anti-Communist Polish immigrant who was later sentenced after …
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… Stories and People General South African History Websites Anti-Apartheid and Southern Africa - Background . For those … to the international solidarity…
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…
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…
New Book | Apartheid Israel: The Politics of an Analogy edited by Jon Soske and Sean Jacobs
… the apartheid regime in Israel.” –Ahmed Kathrada, Veteran Anti-Aparthied activist "Offering more thoughtful questions … a just peace." –Saree Makdisi, UCLA …
Document 92 “Communist Party of South Africa Plenum Held from 5th to 8th April 1936”, Umsebenzi, and 16 May 1936
… be taken to give every assistance in the formation of an Anti-Imperialist and national Liberation movement on the … non-European people, in particular for…
EventArchbishop Owen Cardinal McCann becomes South Africa’s first cardinal.
… and related matters. His attack came at the height of anti-Government rioting in Black communities. "We see these …
EventBheki Mlangeni, ANC human rights lawyer of Soweto, is killed by a walkman bomb meant for Dirk Coetzee.
… at Vlakplaas . The unit carried out assassinations of anti-apartheid activists. Coetzee himself was the first …
EventANC President Albert Luthuli banned
… the 1952 Defiance Campaign, a non-violent, national, anti- pass protest, the apartheid government summoned him to …