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ArticleVlakplaas and the History of Apartheid's Death Squad
… [4] . State security personnel launched Vlakplaas in response to the escalation of anti-apartheid armed … in South Africa during Apartheid. Terrorism and…
State policies and social protest, 1924-1939
… language. During this period of rapid and far reaching political change the Government experienced several splits … through which the oppressed expressed…
ArticleStudent Protests at Tshwane University of Technology - Timeline
… that was handed over to the University’s management. In response, protesting students were told that NSFAS funds had … the University’s main campus in…
BiographyAdelaine Florence Hain
… a very long list of restrictions designed to stop her political activism and render her a non-person who could not … each ambassador in one by one to talk to…
ArchiveBarberton Prison by Sloane Fuller
… Barberton was one of the locations to which female political prisoners were most often sent during apartheid. … in the Transvaal province after 1910,…
ArticleThe banning of the South African Students Organisation (SASO) and student politics in the 1980s
… student protests were rife, the government clamped down on political activity, seriously curtailing any political mobilisation. Soweto, the epicentre of the…
The historical significance of COSATU’s Workers’ Charter Campaign
… of the South African labour movement. It developed as a response to pressure from the Congress Alliance for unions to … socialism. But possibly most…
ArticleThe 1913 Women’s anti-pass campaign in the Orange Free State
… also wrote to the African People’s Organisation (APO), a political organisation representing Coloured people. In response, APO complained in March 1906 about…
The Triumph of the Radicals, 1939-1946
… 4. War Issue In February 1933, the two main white political parties, the Nationalists and the SAP, entered into … the effects on the African and Coloured…
EventSA Special Forces accused of train violence
… both stated that they saw themselves as participating in a political conflict between the African National Congress …
ArticleAfrikaans: the Language of Black and Coloured Dissent
… uprising and especially in the wake of the state’s violent response, a hardened suspicion of its speakers’. [23] In … groups who advanced language contact…
ArticleCommercial, Catering & Allied Workers Union of South Africa (CCAWUSA)
… and Allied Workers Union (RAWU) in 1989. This was in response to a clarion call by the 1985 inaugural congress of …
Bantu Women’s League
… Botha asking for the repeal of the pass laws. There was no response. In 1913 a group of women led by Charlotte Maxeke …
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1920 - 1929
… be the most memorable and influential times in shaping his political and cultural outlook. 1925 November 16, A South … to leave the country. After Malan's…
BiographyRonnie Govender (Sathiseelan Gurulingam Govender)
… of the Special Branch as it reflected the South African political situation. Following his relocation to Cape Town …
BiographyMary Moodley
… her to Benoni, prohibited her from attending any political gatherings and meeting with any other banned …
BiographyGraeme Williams
… and the city's struggles with adapting to a changing political atmosphere. Graeme Williams Photographe = Graeme …
Thoko Phillip Mamogobo
… him not to mention to anyone that he was arrested for political reasons, saying he would cover for him until his …
BiographyIndres Naidoo
… death of his father Narainsamy Thambi Naidoo, a leading political activist, in 1953. Indres was an active member of …
ArticleThe 1956 Women’s March in Pretoria
… also wrote to the African People’s Organisation (APO), a political organisation representing Coloured people. In response, APO complained in March 1906…
ArticleWomen and The Food and Canning Workers’ Union
… of women working in factories as well as participating in political activity. As the working class, the men and women … renamed South African Communist Party…
The Centenary Celebration of the February Revolution 8-12 March 2017
… poor. But it was the former who were most organised as a political force, since they worked together in large numbers … killed by a training squad of the…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1970-1979
… detention and banning orders, further crippling the political mobilisation – for instance, the detention of … spread to others parts of the country. The…
BiographyJohn Jacques William Aitchison
… and the Centre were noted for their analysis of the political violence in the Natal Midlands and for exposing its … Africa, Secretary of the Party in Natal,…
ArticleApartheid and reactions to it
… enforced it more aggressively. All Government action and response was decided according to the policy of apartheid. In … CPSA or any group or individual…
ArticleCongress of South African Trade Unions 1994 - 2014
… Again, COSATU was not happy with the NGP. COSATU’s report response to the NGP titled “Government’s New Growth Path … of organizations, which demanded the…
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Glossary
… sometimes called bantustans black consciousness ”””” a political movement and ideology seeking to unite black people … social group, regarded as possessing…
Opening remarks by President Jacob Zuma to the 3rd Nobel Laureate Symposium on global sustainability - transforming the world in an era of global change, Inkosi Albert Luthuli ICC, African Pavilion, Durban, 06 December 2011
… land. As we have always emphasized, a global multilateral response grounded in the principle of common but … response to climate change, by providing…
ArticleAfrican Resistance Movement (ARM)
… Sharpeville Massacre and its aftermath. The heavy-handed response of the state saw thousands of activists detained and … soon after the massacre of…
Re-Emergence of Congress Activity 1980s
… 1984 to 24 January 1986, 955 people were killed in political violence incidents, and 3 658 injured. 25 members … also forced the leadership’s attention away…