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BiographyRoelof Frederik ‘Pik’ Botha
… of his Foreign Minister and endorsed the reaffirmation of apartheid policy outlined by other senior Nationalist Members …
BiographyEllen Phyllis Hellman
… on the outskirts of Johannesburg. Her opposition to the apartheid regime led her into active politics and she was a …
BiographyArchie Mafeje
… However, his appointment was reversed because of an apartheid law. His removal sparked a protest by UCT student …
BiographyProfessor Emeritus Phillip Tobias
… During his student years, Tobias was also active in anti-apartheid politics, and was the chair of the National Union …
BiographyMaggie Resha
… “… her excellent contribution to the struggle against the apartheid system in South Africa and fighting gender …
BiographyCyril Matamela Ramaphosa
… the resignation of Jacob Zuma. Previously an anti-apartheid activist, trade union leader and businessman, …
BiographyRowley Israel Arenstein
… active in organizing opposition to the new laws enforcing apartheid and in establishing labour unions in …
BiographyMagdaline ‘Maggie’ Resha
… “her excellent contribution to the struggle against the apartheid system in South Africa and fighting gender …
ArticleResponse to the June 16 Soweto Youth Uprising by organisations in exile
… It became the major rallying point of the struggle against apartheid. Military Response: Camps in exile The incident … installations and the subsequent…
ArticleEnd Conscription Campaign (ECC)
… force" camps that could be as lengthy as three months. Legislation had also broadened the base of eligible White men … seeking political asylum and working…
ArticleMangosuthu Buthelezi was a man of immense political talent and contradictions
… an anomalous position within the politics of the anti-apartheid struggle. He brokered Zulu ethnic nationalism, feeding a measure of credibility into…
EventBishop Desmond Tutu leaves for the USA to meet with American President Ronald Reagan
… he is renowned for his involvement in the fight against apartheid. This included his support for economic sanctions … a policy of constructive engagement…
ArticleA history of prison labour in South Africa
… general. This favoured his eventual rehabilitation. Under apartheid, thousands of black prisoners, and those who had … the treatment of prisoners. In 1959, a…
ArticleFreedom Charter timeline 1948-1961
… up its election victory with the introduction of new apartheid laws as well as the stricter application of existing discriminatory legislation such as the…
ArticleThe Destruction of Sophiatown
… Apartheid's Truimph Over Non-Racialism The destruction of … Nationalist Party (NP) government's model for its urban apartheid legislation and policies…
ArticleSouth African Police Services (SAPS)
… 1 040 police stations. South African riot police during Apartheid in the 1950’s. Source: www.capetown.at The most … of the country. South African riot police…
Documentary Photography and Awakening the International Community, 1976-1994
… importance on controlling imagery. As we have seen, the apartheid regime extensively legislated against inflammatory imagery, but as an aside to censorship…
ArchiveAn Inconsolable Memory by Aryan Kaganof
… Memory dwells on what it meant to be “coloured” in apartheid South Africa, how legislated “coloureds” could … painful compromises ordinary people had to make…
ArchiveSpeak
… unions, including domestic workers, resistance to the apartheid legislation and the campaign for equitable human rights are …
EventPresident F.W. de Klerk announces the Group Areas Act will be repealed.
… or to remote areas. The announcement was part of the new legislation the government had planned to repeal major apartheid laws. To mention a few, the Land…
PlaceSeshego, a Township
… Under the South African constitution that abolished the apartheid system, Lebowa was reincorporated into South Africa …
EventThe Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act commences
… in South Africa is passed. The law was introduced by the apartheid government and part of its overall policy of … Coloured, Indian and Black. Using these…
BiographyPeter Sexford Magubane
… has published 17 books, two of which were banned by the Apartheid government,” Black As I Am” (with poetry by Zindzi …
ArticleA history of the South African Constitution 1910-1996
… the Crown would for the first time in the history of the legislation of that Parliament by virtue of the phrase 'of … Party (NP) came to power, introduced…
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…
BiographyWalter Ulyate Sisulu
… the government of DF Malan prepared to implement its new apartheid policy by introducing a series of harsh racial laws … on 26 June 1950 to protests against…
BiographyBisho Jarsa
… an African in a fundamental way," he told the BBC. Under apartheid, his family was classified as Coloured, or …
BiographySakumzi (Saki) Justice Macozoma
… at Boston. While in America he was active in the anti-apartheid movement and in the anti-investment campaigns. In …
BiographyAhmed Gora Ebrahim
… loyalty to the PAC - into a meaningful force in the post-Apartheid era. He wanted a broad, open-ended Africanism to …
BiographySedick Isaacs
… was Prisoner number 883/64. In his book, Surviving in the Apartheid Prison, Isaacs describes in detail the inhuman and … Isaacs S. (2010). Surviving in the…