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Intersex South Africa (ISSA)
… shift intersexed people’s rights, by way of national legislation to provide better care and service provision for …
BiographyBuzwe Stanley Mabizela
… who had been imprisoned by ANC.After the collapse of apartheid and first democratic elections which brought the … November 2011]|Hanlon J. (2006), Beggar…
BiographyDavid Bruce
… imprisonment for refusing to do military service under the apartheid system on the grounds of his opposition to racism. …
BiographyArthur Nuthall Fula
… a language that was synonymous with the oppressors during apartheid South Africa. Furthermore, his choosing of …
BiographyTheresa Solomon
… courage and unwavering commitment to justice during apartheid’s most difficult years. Cape Town Mayor Geordin …
Trade Unions in South Africa by Ari Sitas and Bianca Tame
… trade unions attempted to shape the body politic, its legislation, its inclusions and exclusions, its bill of … serious challenges that continue well into…
ArticleThe Durban strikes and the resurgence of the trade union movement in 1973
… of massive trade union federations that helped dismantle apartheid by the late 1980s. From the beginning of the 20 th … Congress of Trades Unions (Sactu)…
ArticleWhy protect children’s rights?
… South African children, most of whom had suffered under apartheid for many years. Some had been detained without … measures to extend testing and counselling…
BiographyDr. Mantombazana ‘Manto’ Tshabalala-Msimang
… was one of 27 young ANC members to go into exile after the apartheid government banned the organisation in 1960. She did … convened the first International…
ArchiveEleanor Kasrils: From Detainment to National Liberation by Nathan Greenhaw
… party that supported increased racial segregation and apartheid legislation, took increasingly authoritarian measures to … any forms of resistance against…
Why did so few Black South Africans make films before the 1990s?
… and an often-hostile environment. In addition there was legislation that forbad black and coloured people from taking …
BiographyRonnie Govender (Sathiseelan Gurulingam Govender)
… Lahnee’s Pleasure was based on characters in a hotel in apartheid South Africa. It was one of South Africa’s longest …
BiographyAugust Aime Balkema
… to Balkema. In 1958 he published the first Afrikaans anti-apartheid novel, Jan Rabie's Ons, die A/god - a book that …
BiographyMary Moodley
… that her funeral was an act of defiance against the apartheid regime. Her coffin was draped with the ANC flag and …
BiographyAmina Cachalia
… Indians, like Amina, were opposed to this new form of apartheid and Anti-SAIC committees were formed to fight the …
BiographyJeanette Eleanor Kasrils
… international community of the plight of children under apartheid. The booklet was published on 16 June, in …
BiographyDavid Wilcox Bopape
… Kotane and John Beaver Marks and again ordered by the apartheid government to resign from the ANC and CPSA. But his …
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1960s
… no way be described as a reaction against the Government's apartheid policy and has nothing to do with passes. Such … They call upon the Government to…
EventIndependent African States resolve to impose sanctions against South Africa
… to all vessels flying the South African flag, to enact legislation prohibiting their ships from entering South … against the Union of South Africa in protest…
Document 3 - Resolution on ‘the South African question’ adopted by the Executive Committee of the Communist International following the sixth Comintern congress
… To date no such procedure has yet been put into place, as legislation in this regard (the Money Bills Amendment … to parliament. Indeed COSATU questions…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1930s
… of the African National Congress May, Anti-Indian Legislation: The Transvaal Asiatic Land Tenure (Amendment) … interests on proclaimed (mining) land. Anti…
EventJournalists’ first visit to Robben Island
… on Robben Island where 370 men, convicted under security legislation, were held. On the island, 12km north east of Cape Town, political prisoners of the anti…
ArticleAmersfoort Legacy - History of education in South Africa
… period from the 1960s to the early 1990s. The Coming of Apartheid Key to understanding this period is the National … election in 1948 and the process of…
ArticleWomen’s Role in the Negotiations by Nicole Dellaportas
… both politics and negotiations during the struggle against apartheid. Women helped transform South Africa into a new, … now have a voice and freedom from the…
ArticleThe Early History of Rugby in South Africa
… Prior to the passage of apartheid laws both Black and White South Africans played rugby, albeit separately. After the onset of apartheid Black South Africans…
EventSouth African Students Movement leaders meet to plan protest action against the implementation of Afrikaans
… the march culminated in the death of Hector Peterson. The Apartheid Government had, in 1953, enacted The Bantu … requirements of the black people." The…
EventJournalists' first visit to Robben Island
… on Robben Island where 370 men, convicted under security legislation, were held. On the island, 12km north east of Cape Town, political prisoners of the anti…
EventThe first 'Bantustans' or 'homelands' comes into existence when the Transkei Regional Authority is instituted
… of their land access via the 1913 Land Act. Later, under apartheid (after 1948) the division and control were more … for their own governments, led by chiefs…
EventGeneral J.C. Smuts (80), former prime minister of SA, dies
… in White areas who should stay in their reserves) and that legislation and administration would have to take into … and Smuts with them, in effect considered…
BiographySicelo Shiceka
… to Lesotho after an engagement in which helicopter-borne apartheid security forces killed 11 and injured many more. …