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EventThe Defiance Campaign against apartheid laws begins
… Following the adoption of a Programme of Action in the 1949 annual congress, the ANC began the 1950s with … the most dramatic non-violent act of resistance…
The Indians of Natal: Resistance to Apartheid, 1971-1985 by Davinder S. Dhillon
… minority during the period of 1971 to 1985, are captured in this study. It begins by briefly tracing the … political and socio-cultural resistance of…
The United Nations adopts resolution 1375 (XIV) on Apartheid
… On this day in 1959, the United Nations General Assembly adopted … Africa's Apartheid policies at its 838th plenary meeting in New York. The resolution…
EventRobert Kennedy, American politician, speaks at the University of Cape Town about the racial inequality of apartheid
… movement National Union of South African Students(NUSAS). In his speech he referred to a 'Day of Affirmation' or a … of liberty', and compared racial…
EventThe Angolan government announces a unilateral ceasefire
… resolution of the Lusaka Protocol, which had disintegrated in 1998. The signing of the memorandum of understanding … the Angolan ceasefire between the FAA…
EventInterim report into the allegations of a “Third Force” by the Goldstone Commission is published
… three were linked with various atrocities that took place in KwaZulu-Natal, such as vigilantism, political murders, and … and supply of weapons to Inkatha…
PlaceRed Location Museum
… red colour. These were part of a Boer concentration camp in Uitenhage and moved in 1900's, to Red Location, where the first urban Black … Political and…
ArchiveThe State versus Nelson Mandela and others: extract of evidence from Bruno Mtolo, Volume 16
… evidence from Bruno Mtolo, charged with sabotage, in the Supreme Court of South Africa, before the Honourable Judge President Mr Justice De Wet, in the…
ArchiveThe State versus Nelson Mandela and others: extract of evidence from Bruno Mtolo, Volume 15
… of evidence from Bruno Mtolo, charged with sabotage, in the Supreme Court of South Africa, before the Honourable Judge President Mr Justice De Wet, in the…
ArchiveNatal and the 1960 Republican Referendum
… of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in the Department of History, University of Natal, 1990. The author focusses his research with an…
Archive9. Know your rights
… lettering. Advertisement for ECC booklet "Know Your Rights in the SADF". Cartoon of a girl saying goodbye to a conscript at train station giving him this…
ArchiveHandwritten transcript of interview with Mrs J Dube, wife of the late Dr John Dube
… interview with Mrs J Dube at the Ohlanga Institute,Inanda in Durban, South Africa, which was established in 1901 by her late husband, Dr John Langalibalele…
ArchiveTyped transcript of interview with Mrs J Dube, wife of the late Dr John Dube
… interview with Mrs J Dube at the Ohlanga Institute,Inanda in Durban, South Africa, which was established in 1901 by her late husband, Dr John Langalibalele…
EventGandhi supports APO’s Day of Mourning
… (APO) to declare the day of arrival of the Prince of Wales in Cape Town as a day of mourning, in protest against the South Africa Act's disenfranchisement of…
The ‘special branch’
… following. They used to come to my house sometimes in the middle of the night and they knock on the door, … me up like this?' 'No, I just wanted to make sure…
ArchiveThe African Peoples Democratic Union of Sout
… Democratic Union of Southern Africa (APDUSA), held in Cape Town in April 1962. Items in the Address included the Ten Point Programme for the …
ANC mourns the passing on of Mama Regina Nzo, 27 September 2011
… was an ANC activist and went into exile with her husband in 1964 for 26 years. She returned to South African in 1990 and worked for ANC Womens League. Her…
PlaceMaclear/Nqanqarhu
… The Sivewright Bridge, in Station Street. Is a National Monumen t With its … A portrayal of this procession was painted by the San in a cave on the Farm of'…
Madiba The African Opera
… Madiba the African Opera is the biographical opera in the life of Nelson Mandela whose libretto was written by … with family tales and anecdotes about Nelson…
EventNelson Mandela is sentenced to five years for “incitement and leaving South Africa illegally”
… for an armed struggle against the apartheid government. In 1962 He was smuggled out of South Africa to speak at an African freedom conference in Addis Ababa…
PlaceMac-mac falls
… The Mac-mac falls is the second highest falls in the Mpumalanga tour route, its shimmering waters plunge to … platform above the falls. The 65 m high Mac mac…
PlaceBourke's Luck Potholes
… named after Tom Bourke, a gold-digger who staked a claim in the Area. The two Rivers that come together to create … leader Hendrik Potgieter. The Sabie River…
PlaceKliptown Museum
… oral testimonies and songs sung during the 1955 gathering in Kliptown, play in the background. Housed in an old hardware store on the edge of the Walter…
EventNational Heritage Day celebrates South African cultural diversity
… day was previously known as Shaka Day, and was celebrated in kwazulu/Natal. It was changed to National Heritage Day in 2004 when a compromise was reached…
EventChief Kaiser Matanzima is elected Chief Minister
… Born in the Eastern Cape, Chief Daliwonga Kaiser Matanzima was … elected members and sixty-four ex-officio chiefs who in terms of the Bantu Authorities Act…
EventSouth Africa withdraws from the Commonwealth
… should become a republic. The result showed that 52% were in favour of a republic. In accordance with his promise that the republic would remain … Verwoerd,…
EventSouth African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU) is formed
… during an Inaugural Conference held on 4 and 5 March 1955 in the Trades Hall, Johannesburg. SACTU was the leading … reversals after the banning of political…
EventCriminal Law Amendment Act No 8 commences
… any organized resistance against the laws of the Union. In addition, the Act stated that anyone accompanying a person … found guilty of offences committed…
EventThe Balfour Declaration is accepted
… The 1926 Imperial Conference, held in London from 25 October, accepted the Balfour Declaration, … "autonomous Communities within the British Empire, equal in…
EventZimbabwe becomes a member of the United Nations (UN)
… and declared Unilateral Independence (UDI) from Britain in 1956. The United Nations (UN) considered this declaration … administration, and by 1979, talks on…