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… The reason that these particular parties were instrumental in Namibia's independence is that Namibia was a protectorate … rule. After years of internal uprisings, which culminated in the Battle of Cuito Carnivale, and dealt a deathblow to the Apartheid regime's habits of engaging in cross border …

… President Lucas Mangope, the leader of the apartheid homeland Bophuthatswana, retreated from the capital, Mmabatho, in the face of a popular uprising after he had tried to boycott participation in South Africa's first democratic elections. Mangope …

… The Rev. Allan Hendrickse, former minister in President P.W. Botha's cabinet, stepped down after … Congress (ANC) and was appointed as an ANC senator in the upper house of the new democratic Parliament. … is remembered for his contribution to the struggle against apartheid and for the positive role he played in the …

… of all political detainees. Police teargassed the students in an attempt to break up the march. The students at the Cape … uprising of Soweto school children to take action against Apartheid and demand better education. Click here for a chronology of the June 16 uprising in the Western Cape. References: Wallis, F.(2000). …

… common border. The relationship between the two countries in 1970s and early 1980s was fraught with friction. This was … Chief Leabua Jonathan who came to power as Prime Minister in 1966. For instance, Jonathan repeatedly criticised the South African government's policy of apartheid while declaring his support for the African …

… IN EXILE Contents: Sunshine and Sharpeville. Cartoon, David … Michael Picardie. Cartoon, Gask. African and Indian in Durban, Fatima Meer. The Prisons of Apartheid, Sonia Bunting. Petition from Goal. Cartoon, Papas. …

… The ruling African National Congress (ANC) was also blamed in the report. The report further indicated that the primary culprit of the apartheid era was the South African government itself. … 1000 jaar, Kaapstad: Human & Rousseau.|BBC News , 1988: Apartheid report accuses SA leaders , from BBC News , …

… Charlotte Born : 29 June 1952, Magog, KwaZulu-Natal In Summary : A student activist aligned to the Black … her fervent struggle for women’s rights since the years of apartheid. Nozizwe Charlotte Madlala-Routledge, “mother of … Madlala-Routledge still continued fighting in the anti-apartheid movement. In 1979, as she obtained her diploma in …

… stood, over so many decades, with the Government of India in opposition to the injustices of apartheid. By choosing to observe economic sanctions and … your way, you helped translate revulsion at the crime of apartheid into effective support for the struggle for …

… introduced this the Bantu Labour Relations Regulation Act in the wake of wide-spread labour unrest to set up a limited … of workers were laid down. Due to various restrictions and apartheid still being imposed on labour unions, many Black trade unions were not interested in registration. Source: Kalley, J.A.; Schoeman, E. & Andor, …

… Constitution on 8 May 1996 was one of the turning points in the history of the struggle for democracy in South Africa. The Constitution is considered by many as … was the embodiment of the vision of generations of anti-apartheid freedom fighters and democrats who had fought for …

… to set up the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in 1995. The Commission, based on the Promotion of National … Act, No 34 of 1995, investigated what happened under apartheid between 1960 and 1994. The conflict during this period resulted in violence and human rights abuses from all sides. No …

… In a two-day meeting to discuss emergency measures against … should be excluded from ILO meeting. The meeting was held in Geneva from 28- 30 June 1963. The ILO is the international … South Africa was faced with many challenges because of its apartheid policies. At one stage South African goods were …

… Students (NUSAS) elected to disband on this day. Founded in 1924, the aim of the organisation was to represent and … to members of all races; and also called for the end of apartheid and all discriminatory policies. While the … of the organisation was that the members felt that in light of the many changes that were occurring in South …

… Bongani Nqongophele (31) was from Elliotdale in the Eastern Cape. He had been working for Lonmin for a … 2012 Bongani was killed at scene 1 after being shot once in the head. He was the sole breadwinner in the family and left behind his wife, young daughter, …

… Mphangeli Tukuza (41) was from Ngqeleni in the Eastern Cape. He began working for Lonmin in 2000. On 16 August 2012 Mr Tukuza was killed at scene 1 after being shot four times by the police, in his head, arm and knee. He left behind his two wives and 7 …

… Sokanyile (48) was from Mdumazulu Location, Ngqeleni in the Eastern Cape. He started working for Lonmin in 2001. On 13 August 2012 Mr Sokanyile was killed after being shot in the head by the police. He left behind his wife and 5 …

… Lonmin for 5 years. On 16 August 2012 John was shot twice in the neck and head. The bullets were fired from an R4 or R5 … came across a photograph of his grandson’s body published in the Daily Sun newspaper on 17 August 2012. He left behind … out his name when a car similar to the one he drove passes in the street.” …

… In March 1939, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru wrote a series of … cooperation across “racial” lines in the struggle against apartheid tyranny. But the campaign had to be discontinued because of the new repressive laws by the apartheid regime. Mandela sensed that new methods of struggle …

… (or place of the Zulu) was granted self-government under apartheid on 1 December 1977. According to the apartheid social planner’s ideal of 'separate development', … large, it was segmented and spread over a large Area in what is now the province of KwaZulu-Natal. The capital of …

… of the South African Communist Party, October 1973 Events in the last nine months have confirmed the broad lines of the … an impressive basis for world-wide workers' action against apartheid. It united for the first time in many years all the … of the trade union movement, unanimously denounced apartheid and race discrimination as a crime against humanity …

… conference, which seeks to consolidate the peace process in this Middle East region. Having gone through a long period … situation in that both the liberation movement and the apartheid government were ready to negotiate at the same … the international community against the inhuman system of apartheid. They were interested in understanding what we …

… after a number of protest multiracial swim-ins by anti-apartheid activists. He further promised the scrapping of the … such as toilets, parks and buses. This meant that in future all South Africans, irrespective of race, would use …

… as the only method of rejecting the new constitution. And in doing so, the pamphlet claims that the people of the liberatory movement will be rejecting White supremacy; apartheid and segregation; they will be turning their backs …

… Died in exile in Zambia …

… one of the founder members of the ANC Youth League (ANCYL) in 1944 with Nelson Mandela and Walter Sisulu, and was … He was appointed as the Secretary General of the ANC in 1954. With the banning of the ANC and other liberation … of the armed struggle and guerrilla campaigns against apartheid. When ANC President Chief Albert Luthuli died in …

… Bram Fischer, the former political activist was arrested in 1964 for being a member of the illegal organisation … of South Africa (CPSA). He was later released on bail and in January 1965 and went into hiding. He remained underground … to life imprisonment for his political activities against apartheid and twenty-four years for being a member of the …

… the country when the Transitional Executive Council in South Africa became operational. A resolution calling for … economic and diplomatic sanctions against SA was passed in 1962 and in 1963 the UN Security Council unanimously … West Africa (now Namibia) and the UN's opposition against Apartheid. …

… they call "irresponsible" utterances against the Union's apartheid laws and first to see that Holland "casts the beam out of its own eye." In a letter to Luns the committee wrote that South Africa … Luns what the Dutch would do if South Africa was to get up in United Nations and condemned Holland for repressing the …

… that I stand before you today during this important phase in the democratisation of South Africa. This week, The ANC … to serve these children who are victims of the pernicious apartheid laws under which we lived for so long. Local … only divide and weaken communities. We brought down apartheid through united action and we can build this country …