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ArticleAfrican National Congress Youth League (ANCYL)
… an attempt to make the country ungovernable and force the apartheid regime to abandon its oppressive policies. Similar campaigns targeting specific apartheid…
Mandela: Message to India
… an India-South Africa Solidarity Meet to discuss the post-apartheid South African scene, organised by the Indian … to focus world public opinion on the evils…
ArticleNational Party (NP)
… 1994, and was disbanded in 2005. Its policies included apartheid, the establishment of a South African Republic, and … leader, with Malan as his deputy. NP…
ArticleA History of the Springbok Legion
… in the SL and eventually joined the struggle against apartheid through the Congress Movement. According to Neil … ( As quoted in Lazerson, Whites in the…
The African Resistance Movement (ARM): An Organisational History
… Origins One of the defining moments in the struggle against apartheid in South Africa was the Sharpeville Massacre and … opposed the use of violence as a…
The Afrikaanse Handelsinsituut
… to become a dominant political and economic force in apartheid South Africa. The AHI began as an alliance between … PW Botha’s Total Strategy , calling for…
ArticleSouth African Constitution: The Bill of Rights
… World War , and the fight against the inhumane rule of the Apartheid Government in South Africa. The Bill of Rights as … Declaration of Human Rights In 1948,…
ArticleCongress of Traditional Leaders of South Africa
… and the undermining of traditional leadership under the apartheid regime. In 1975, Chief Buthelezi, a very important … this group was in response to the…
The armed struggle and state repression of the 1960s
… A turning point in the struggle against apartheid came about in the 1960s. This change was the result … government had become. Support for the struggle…
‘Where Do Whites Fit in?’: The portrayal of Black Consciousness and its effects on white liberals in Burger’s Daughter by Rebecca Trout
… almost any white person involving themselves in the anti-apartheid effort. Through an examination of Burger’s Daughter … South Africans take control of their…
ArticleThe Crackdown on the Black Consciousness Movement in 1973
… especially after the Rivonia Trial , saw a lull in anti-apartheid politics that only ended with the emergence of the … State wary of the new organisation’s…
ArticlePaper abstracts and biographies of speakers
… in the 1980s, and the inheritance of that militarised apartheid state by the ANC as well as the demobilisation of … continuities between the armed forces of…
ArticleLiberal Party of South Africa (LPSA)
… The ascendancy of the apartheid government in 1948 signalled a descent into … to discuss a response to the increasing entrenchment of apartheid by the…
Article1960-1966: The genesis of the armed struggle
… an important watershed in South Africa's struggle against apartheid. The aftermath of the Sharpeville Massacre , in … in the space of a few years. The new…
ArticleGertrude Fester Biography by Nehal Patel
… born on 4 July 1952, in the fourth year of South Africa’s apartheid state. By this time, policies, such as the Group … Cape Town . After growing up in…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1970-1979
… that it would be resuming arms sales to South Africa’s apartheid government. 1971 Thabo Mbeki is deployed to Lusaka, … to the Chairman of the Special…
Biography of Lindiwe Mabuza by Kayla Johansen
… a ‘part of a whole arsenal of weaponry to be used against apartheid’. [21] This spurred Mabuza and two of her … of gaining economic and political support for…
ArticleUnited Democratic Front (UDF)
… The United Democratic Front (UDF) was an anti-apartheid body that incorporated many anti-apartheid organisations. It was launched in 1983, in … documents,…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1990s
… of a 30-year ban on the ANC, the PAC and other anti-apartheid organisations, the suspension of the death sentence … up of police officers which was used to…
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission: A Reflection of the Chasm Between Constitutional Rights and the Lived Experience in South Africa by Rhiain Moses
… of the black population in South Africa during the apartheid regime. By identifying “inarticulacy”, or an … Waiting for the Barbarians (1980) as connected to…
Shared Cultural Trauma: Inarticulacy as Social Disability in South African Literature by Hannah Pagan
… of the black population in South Africa during the apartheid regime. By identifying “inarticulacy”, or an … Waiting for the Barbarians (1980) as connected to…
Why is sexual violence so endemic in South Africa and why has it been so hard to combat? by Jessica Clarke
… culture. Secondly, the essay will show how the legacy of apartheid has normalised violence and entrenched mistrust of … its citizens but the country has…
Rustenburg the Segregated city
… 2935 6067 1939 4000 >3000 >7000 1946 8834 5653 14487 The Apartheid city A history of Pass Laws in South Africa Like all apartheid cities in South Africa,…
ArticleA History of South African Literature, timeline 1824-2005
… all over the country. And it was the decade in which the apartheid state responded with massive treason trials for … a devastating picture of what it was…
Biography of Arthur Nortje by Kangkang Yang
… in South Africa was marked by incredible racial tension as apartheid divided the nation. Caught in the middle of this … opposing forces of White and Black…
Documents, speeches, Awards, and articles relating to Desmond Tutu
… Tutu, world renowned preacher and strident voice against apartheid, first Black Secretary General of the South African … award recognised his unifying role…
ArticleThe Homelands
… The Bantustans or homelands, established by the Apartheid Government, were areas to which the majority of the … system under the many laws and policies…
The genesis of the armed struggle, 1960-1966
… an important watershed in South Africa's struggle against apartheid. The aftermath of the Sharpeville Massacre , in … in the space of a few years. The new…
Delegations and dialogue between ANC and internal non government groups
… government representatives, homeland representatives, anti apartheid movements and white business groupings particularly … and big businessmen, but also…
ArticleCuba and the struggle for democracy in South Africa
… ethos, and revolutionary Cuba was an early opponent of apartheid and racial segregation. It is no surprise to read … liberation was of a different sort from…