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… guests Comrades and friends, We have gathered in Kliptown to relive the historic moment in the history of … African Constitution. Comrades, Compatriots, Friends, The apartheid regime viewed the Charter as an act of treason. The … the leadership and focussed international attention on the apartheid policy. The racist regime's campaign of repression …

… President of the Transvaal when the territory was annexed in 1877, joined Kruger and Pretorius to take up arms against … of the Transvaal and managed to crush the Jameson Raid in January 1896. He died soon after besieging Ladysmith, …

… only female principal of the Huguenot University College in Wellington and a lecturer at the Pretoria Technical … of a country was largely determined by its women. She died in 1979. …

… , the military wing of the PAC. Following Poqo attacks in Paarl, Cape Province (now Western Cape), Madikane was one … were the first people sentenced to death for sabotage in South Africa. They were hanged at the Pretoria Central …

… brothers, Mike and Dan, aided the revival of the PAC in Krugersdorp. Their efforts fell under the non-political … brothers contribution to the struggle has been documented in books such as "The Road to Democracy" as well as "The …

… October 25 1991, ninety-two organisations that were united in their opposition to apartheid gathered in Durban to form the Patriotic Front. The … by the inequality and suffering brought about by apartheid, which the ultra-right intended to perpetuate. The …

… must understand the general situation, which is developing in the Western world. Western democracy is faced with a … Black women of South Africa who live under the policies of Apartheid, and also to look at the very important role, I … a poll-tax whatever their economic or physical condition.) Apartheid hits Black women far beyond wage discrimination. …

… of Education Book 3: Migration, Land and Minerals in the Making of South Africa commissioned by The Department … by The Department of Education Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid commissioned by The Department of Education Book 6: …

… negotiations among various political parties, culminating in the country’s first non-racial election in 1994. All legally eligible South Africans were able to … for the first time on 27 April 1994 to mark the end of apartheid rule and establish a new Constitutional order. This …

… Freddie Shangwe and Ezekial Maseko, drove to Church Street in Pretoria and parked their vehicle in close vicinity of the building which housed the South … was considered to be purely cosmetic. In retaliation, the apartheid government launched an attack on the Mozambiquan …

… Enshrined in the South African Bill of rights, is the right to free access to information. In this spirit, the Independent Communications Authority of … broadcaster as a means to disseminate propaganda, as the Apartheid government had done.   References: Burger, D. …

… the ANC's ultimatum sent to State President F.W. de Kerk. In the ultimatum, the ANC demanded that De Klerk stop aiding and abetting the IFP in the ongoing feud with the ANC and its alliance partners, … its alliance partners on the one hand and the IFP and the apartheid government on the other escalated into a crisis …

… Beer , Denis Worrall and Wynand Malan, the DP won 36 seats in Parliament in the general election of September that year. However, the … to find a clear-cut alternative to the National Party's apartheid policy. The PP took a stand on constitutional …

… especially one who is a freedom fighter, is that one acts in the present, but needs to bear some sense of what the … 23, he directly confronted the racism and humiliation that apartheid entailed and any illusions of being free were … and concluded that there was a stalemate, between the apartheid regime and the forces of liberation. The apartheid …

… The Mfecane - known as the Difaqane or Lifaqane in Sesotho - was a period of profound political, social, and … remembered carries political significance. Colonial and Apartheid -era historians used particular interpretations of … that the concept had been constructed by colonial and Apartheid-era historians to present the era as a period of …

… On Wednesday, August 19, 1981, a racist judge in Pretoria sentenced to death three ANC militants - Anthony … of guilt voluntarily made by our comrades. The inhuman apartheid system relies on fascist methods for its doomed … In the meantime progressive humanity, the opponents of the apartheid regime, the supporters of our just struggle, …

… ezidibene apha kuLomzi wakwa Faku! I stand here today, in the land of Nkosi Faku, Nkosi Mqikela, the land of Nkosi … of June 1960, on the one hand. At just one fell swoop the apartheid regime visited an untold misery on our innocent … are indelible marks of the price you paid to fight against apartheid and to liberate this country. Therefore it is about …

… Overt socio-political protest in South African art, as I have suggested, first made a … considerable. In an interview with Clive van den Bergh in 1985, Stop­forth described an aspect of this pressure: For … initially as a triumph of ethnicity: hence a tri­umph of Apartheid. After a decade of repression, the early Seventies …

… Bessie Amelia Head was born on 6 July 1937 in Pietermaritzburg to Bessie Amelia Birch, a White woman and a Black unnamed father. Due to the apartheid policies of the day, her parents were  not allowed … her mother was forced to spend the term of her pregnancy in a state institution.  She was raised in foster care at …

… Afrikaans writers and a pioneer of the usage of free verse in Afrikaans. He was an editor of the newspaper, Land en Volk and became controversial in Transvaal politics. He withdrew to a lonely life on a …

… existence of Nelson Mandela. I imagine it was when I was in Zimbabwe. In 1966, in the wake of UDI, I spent two terms … - four years later- that I really became involved in anti-apartheid campaigning. I was President of the Guild of … and I found myself thrust into a whole range of anti-apartheid and anti-racist campaigning. Racism in the west …

… The ANC in KwaZulu-Natal is flabbergasted by the announcement made by … The outstanding and sterling role played by OR Tambo in the founding of the non-racial democratic South Africa we … the mobilization of the international community against apartheid for almost thirty years. His entire excellent …

… gratitude to the "millions of my compatriots and those in every corner of the globe who have campaigned tirelessly … my release". Mandela's release followed the relaxation of apartheid laws - including the unbanning of leading … by then South African President FW de Klerk. In commemoration of his release, people across the country …

… to make December 16 a holiday named Dingaan’s Day was in celebration for what Voortrekkers viewed as a 'victory' over Zulu warriors near the Ncome River in KwaZulu Natal. On that day an estimated 10 000-20 000 Zulu … December 16 continued to form part of the history of post apartheid South Africa. On 16 December 1995 the name was …

… conference marked one of the most important turning points in the history of the Organisation's existence up to that … party and its determination to implement a policy of apartheid. The ANC, inspired by the desire to achieve national freedom, was transformed in the following decade. Formerly an organisation led by …

… zone on 11 February 1966 under the Group Areas Act. In the years that followed, 60,000 people were evicted from … an organisation dedicated to helping victims of apartheid relocation projects regain their land, was … are still on the waiting list.   Following the end of apartheid, Davids first relocated to Rondebosch East. She …

… Sokhaya Charles Nkosi was born on 27 January 1949 in Durban.From 1974 to 1976 Nkosi studied painting, graphics, … (Black Expo, organised by Don Joseph, an art teacher in Chatsworth). 1977: NSA, Durban (three-person exhibition … and AIA students). TAG (Rorke's Drift Fine Art School in Retrospect). 1988: JAG (Vita Art Now). Commissions: 1978: …

… Durban (now the University of KwaZulu-Natal), majoring in English and private law. He was involved with many clubs … to organise activities and negotiations that culminated in the first elected students' representative council. …

… In 1970 Brian Astbury, a Professional Photographer, was hired … Commercial Arts venue to operate during the plight of Apartheid . [x] In order for The Space to play to Non-Racial … Artists who fought to keep the Theatre running during the Apartheid Regime. The Space strove to Present and Host …

… the headquarters of Witwatersrand Command army base in Quartz Street, Johannesburg. The attack was executed by … National Congress (ANC). Grosskopf had joined the ANC in Swaziland in January 1986, and the attack on the army headquarters was in response to the apartheid government deploying troops in the townships to …