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ArticleTruth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC)
… court-like body assembled in South Africa after the end of Apartheid. Anybody who felt they had been a victim of … to grant amnesty to those charged with…
The people armed, 1984-1990
… the first time the ANC and its military wing, MK attacked apartheid forces and civilian lives in an attempt to inflict … in the heart of urban white South…
Article1960 - 1994: Armed Struggle and Popular Resistance
… the first time the ANC and its military wing, MK attacked apartheid forces and civilian lives in an attempt to inflict … in the heart of urban white South…
ArticlePassive Resistance in South Africa
… period of the armed struggle. This feature includes anti apartheid mass actions which demonstrates the links and … Passive or non-violent mass action…
ArticleThe Politics Behind Water
… the National Party (NP) came into power at the start of Apartheid. [11] This change in legislation was caused by the … J.“The Water Act, No. 54 of 1956 and…
ArticleThe National Council of Trade Unions (NACTU)
… harbouring strong connections to the most popular anti-apartheid movements of the time. In 1987 to 1989 NACTU held several meetings with the ANC, the PAC…
Constitution of the Republic of South Africa Act 110 of 1983
… recommendations was limited because they did not question apartheid. When Botha came to power he created a … Party opposed the reforms believing they…
ArticleAftermath: Sharpeville Massacre 1960
… South Africa had already been harshly criticised for its apartheid policies, and this incident fuelled anti-apartheid sentiments as the international…
Background to the Freedom Charter 1955
… Nelson Mandela , Yusuf Dadoo and Walter Sisulu defied apartheid laws in Johannesburg and other major city centres. … sitting on benches marked for whites, or…
ArticleChanging Perceptions of Nelson Mandela
… Mandela was viewed as a major thorn in the side of the apartheid government, serving as Secretary General of the … At this time, Mandela was viewed as…
ArticleMangosuthu Buthelezi: the Zulu nationalist who left his mark on South Africa’s history
… who influenced the transition from the white minority apartheid regime to a society under a democratically elected … transition to democracy and subsequent…
The Freedom struggle in Rustenburg
… Resistance to apartheid Umzabalazo - The Freedom Struggle in South Africa … point to deprivation throughout the segregation and apartheid period. In 1952…
ArticleSharpeville Timeline
… have nothing to do with pass laws or unhappiness with apartheid . Instead he stated the march as a ‘periodic … reports of peace in Tom Lodge’s book,…
ArticleBlack People’s Convention (BPC)
… the influence of BPC in this phase of the struggle against apartheid. In the decade between the formation of the South … was enshrined in the Freedom Charter…
Zarina Maharaj Biography by Sarah Rahimi
… more. Zarina Maharaj has served her country during the apartheid era through her involvement in the ANC. She continued to serve South Africa during the post…
ArticleInkatha Freedom Party (IFP)
… of the IFP were in Ulundi, the former capital of the apartheid era KwaZulu homeland. Inkatha (definition) The … political powers of Zulu kings. Buthelez's…
ArticleThe South African Coloured People’s Organisation (SACPO)
… African National Congress (ANC) in its campaign against Apartheid . James la Guma and Reggie September were two of … sentiment among Afrikaners, and a…
ArticleConstitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996
… and set in motion processes that laid the foundation for apartheid. On 21 March 1960 police opened fire on a crowd … This resulted in the negotiations for…
ArticleBlack Consciousness Movement (BCM)
… events in South African history, the first signs that the apartheid regime would not be able to maintain its oppressive … and workplaces, and the regime was…
ArticleThe House in session
… new system by arguing that they would be able to oppose Apartheid ‘from within’. Hendrickse said in January 1986: 'It … and even collaborated with the NP in…
ArticleGrade 9 - Term 4: Turning points in modern South African History since 1948
… themselves. The Minister of Native Affairs declared that apartheid was a model for the world. The Minister of Justice … and the banning of the ANC and PAC…
South African and World leaders
… was a very important leader in the struggle against apartheid. He was one of the leaders of the ANC. Like many … he became an important symbol for human…
ArticleThabo Mbeki (1942 - ) Timeline
… delegation of the United Nations Special Committee against apartheid. The statement is directed at the Apartheid Government in South Africa concerning the…
Khoisan Identity
… a revival in recent years, most notably since the end of apartheid in 1994. Nevertheless, the issue of Khoisan … of the ‘Native Land Act’ , land restitution…
Biography of Lefifi Tladi by Paul Linck
… singer that went into exile in South Africa because of apartheid. This is the biographical portion of the paper. At … art. Tladi says that art suffered…
ArticleSophiatown in Literature
… has captured the texture of Sophiatown and life in early Apartheid South Africa in ways that no other form of writing … after the destruction of Sophiatown…
ArticleOliver Tambo Speeches 1971-1979
… ". Lusaka, 8 January 1972 1973 " Black Reaction to Apartheid: 1948-1973 ". Address by Oliver Tambo to the Annual … Tambo to the United Nations Special…
ArticleSouth African Coloured People Organisation (SACPO)
… prior to the introduction and institutionalisation of the Apartheid policy by the NP. Legislations that had an … another direction in the 1950s. Before the…
ArticleUniversity Christian Movement (UCM)
… to a movement that would kick-start the dismantling of apartheid – the South African Students Organisation (SASO). … multiracial body, and tempering its…
ArticleHow the Group Areas Act shaped spaces, memories and identities in Cape Town
… to identities that were socially constructed through Apartheid engineering. The importance of these identities was … unwholesome ways. [ix] For many it meant…