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A cartoon predicting South Africa's expulsion from the International Olympic Movement

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A British Sports Council team begins a three-week fact-finding tour of South Africa to probe racial discrimination in sport

Congress of South African Students (COSAS)

Congress of South African Students (COSAS)

Mapungubwe

Exploring Student-Worker Alliance: the role of COSAS in trade unions, 1979-1985 by Noor Nieftagodien

A resolution calling for Africans countrywide to stay at home, in protest against the Unlawful Organisations Act, is taken in Durban

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A resolution calling for Africans countrywide to stay at home, in protest against the Unlawful Organisations Act, is taken in Durban

Gertrude Fester Biography by Nehal Patel

Gertrude Fester Biography by Nehal Patel

… Black Women Entertainers and Transnational Activism in the 1950s’ from OAH Magazine of History , Vol. 26, No. 4, pp …

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Paul Adams becomes SA’s youngest Test Cricket player

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Up to 100 ANC members are reported to have been detained in Swaziland

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Former National Minister of Arts and Culture, Pallo Jordan, is born

Seedtime: Omar Badsha Retrospective

White sympathisers join evicted Black squatters in a protest

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White sympathisers join evicted Black squatters in a protest

South African National Art Gallery

South African National Art Gallery

The Immigration Regulation Act is passed in South Africa

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The Immigration Regulation Act is passed in South Africa

Cosatu calls for three days national protest against the Labour Relations Amendment Bill (LRA)

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Cosatu calls for three days national protest against the Labour Relations Amendment Bill (LRA)

Dorothy Fischer becomes the first South African woman to undergo a heart transplant

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Dorothy Fischer becomes the first South African woman to undergo a heart transplant

André Phillipus Brink, well-known SA author, is born

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André Phillipus Brink, well-known SA author, is born

Fietas, site of forced removal in Johannesburg, is renamed Pageview

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Fietas, site of forced removal in Johannesburg, is renamed Pageview

Transition to Armed Struggle by Norman Levy

Transition to Armed Struggle by Norman Levy

… First had stimulated his interest in Marxism. By the early 1950s, certainly during the Treason Trial, his youthful …

SPEAK Magazine (1982 - 1994)

SPEAK Magazine (1982 - 1994)

Letter to Petros Sipho Mkhize from his father in Macambini, KwaZulu-Natal

Letter to Petros Sipho Mkhize from his father in Macambini, KwaZulu-Natal

Pass laws in South Africa 1800-1994

Pass laws in South Africa 1800-1994

Group Areas Development Act, Act No 69 of 1955

Group Areas Development Act, Act No 69 of 1955

Chapter XV - House arrest

… road. Yet it was one, an important one for me, and in the 1950s my feet were firmly on the road of political struggle, …

Louis Hayward, South African–American Actor dies.

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Louis Hayward, South African–American Actor dies.

Industrial and Commercial Workers Union is founded

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Industrial and Commercial Workers Union is founded under Clements Kadalie

First Women Anti-Pass Campaign starts

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First Women Anti-Pass Campaign starts

The Group Areas Act comes into effect

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The Group Areas Act comes into effect

AAM and UN: partners in the international campaign against apartheid

District Six is Declared a ‘White Area’

District Six is Declared a ‘White Area’