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ArticleThe 1956 Women’s March in Pretoria
… – all showed up to take part in the resistance against apartheid. The 1956 Women’s March played a vital role in the women becoming more visible participants…
EventSA Prime Minister completes a tour of homelands in the Northern Transvaal
… was emphasized. The Homelands were at the centre of apartheid’s policy of separate development, aimed at …
ArticleTimeline 20 years of Democracy 1994 to 2014
… out of the organisation in 1956 because of its policy of apartheid. 1995 14 February, the Constitutional Court is … the end of their international sports…
Bathandwa Ndondo
… National Congress (ANC) women’s unit commissar turned apartheid killer, Xolelwa Sosha, disappeared. Mose and Sosha … Ntsebeza D. B. (2001). Unfinished…
BiographyGovindasamy Krishnasamy Thambi Naidoo
… S Reddy 's, (Director of the United Nations Centre against Apartheid and author) quotes from an interview with Thambi …
ArticleNew Africa Theatre Project
… for relevant South African themed theatre, which defied apartheid laws. It was initially housed in Observatory, Cape …
ArticleThe Freedom struggle in Cape Town
… racial segregation in Cape Town and later against apartheid. Thus, Cape Town has and continues to occupy centre …
A brief history on South African prisons and prisoners
… National government was voted into power and instituted apartheid. This lead to an increase in the number of people being incarcerated due to petty and…
ArticleA brief history of domestic service in South Africa
… of effective bargaining power and paid leave. Until the apartheid era, this colonial system of domestic work prevailed [xix] . Apartheid History A girl and…
Defining the term 'Bantu'
… that ‘Bantu peoples’ were primitive. [7] In the earlier apartheid period, c. 1960, ‘Bantu’ replaced the word 'Native' … word became despised by Africans as…
ArticleBlack Consciousness: Cultural Expression and Representation
… liberation from self-inflicted oppression as well as apartheid-imposed oppression. The BC movement monopolized on … Black Consciousness ideology. These plays…
ArticleColonial History of Port Elizabeth
… resulted in what has become a prototypical model of the 'apartheid city' or 'the segregated city'. [PAGEBREAK] … of Europeans, as well as persons of mixed…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1960-1969
… countries and individuals who were sympathetic to the anti-apartheid cause. Towards the end of the decade, the ANC held … Congress (PAC) take up anti-pass…
The ANC’s MK Special Ops Unit Material - Yunus Carrim Collection - The 1987 attack at the Wits Command
… Star, 3 June 1980 In the Heart of the Whore, The story of apartheid's death squads, by Jacques Pauw Blue-Blooded Afrikaner as Anti-Apartheid Revolution, by…
ArticleBrenda Fassie’s 1997 hit song Vulindlela still raises questions about South Africa as a nation
… wedding. In 1997 South Africa was emerging from the racist apartheid system, and was celebrating its own “wedding” … across the colour bar after democratic…
ArticleLiberation Struggle in South Africa
… Although Apartheid only ‘officially’ started in 1948, repression was …
ArticleArts and Cultural Organisations
… of the NIHSS, on researching the role of the arts under apartheid. We hope that our work will encourage individuals … both of the archive as well as personal…
ArticleSophiatown Timeline
… Eiselen is made Secretary of Native Affairs. 1950-52 Six apartheid laws are passed: the Group Areas Act (1950), the … to Meadowlands. The “Defiance Campaign”…
South African Government of National Unity (GNU) – 1994 – 1999
… to ensure inclusivity during the transition period from apartheid to democracy , 1990 - 1994. The mission of the … violations and atrocities had been…
Article1949 Anti Indian Pogrom in Durban
… and Whites went to prison in opposition to the policies of apartheid and segregation. The meeting of the National Joint … While the Native Representative…
Liberation
… to know. We are the people who have borne the brunt of apartheid, of forced removals from our homes, of poverty in … in 1994.) The challenge to undo…
ArticleCustomary Law in South Africa: Historical Development as a Legal System and its Relation to Women’s Rights by Devon Wall
… focusing on three historical periods: colonialism, the apartheid era of segregation, and after democratization. The … settlers and their administrations,…
Increasing repression and the turn to the armed struggle
… the 1950s as it sought to deal with dissent and entrench apartheid. Leading political activists were forced operate … broken. A new approach for confronting…
Last of The Gandhians in South Africa
… the African majority. He continued non-violent defiance of apartheid until his death in 1969, long after most militants … become convinced that underground…
ArticleThe Drafting and Acceptance of the Constitution
… of the political system, was radically transformed as the apartheid-based constitutional system was restructured during … the early 1990s. Nevertheless, many…
ArticleThe South African general elections: 1994
… parties registered. The 1994 elections marked the end of Apartheid in South Africa. The country-wide elections were … Africa, and a continuous international…
ArticleReactions to Silverton Siege 1980
… the South African regime for perpetuation of the policy of Apartheid, which constitutes a crime against humanity.’ In … the organisation and made a tribute…
ArticleA history of prison labour in South Africa
… general. This favoured his eventual rehabilitation. Under apartheid, thousands of black prisoners, and those who had … of 1959 , was introduced which was…
ArticleFreedom Charter timeline 1948-1961
… up its election victory with the introduction of new apartheid laws as well as the stricter application of … Council (made up of representatives from all the…
ArticleThe Society of Young Africa (SOYA)
… Africans and other race groups in the struggle against apartheid. The banning of the ANC and PAC in 1960 forced the … armed struggle, abandoning peaceful…