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BiographyDean Hutton
… various other news publications Exhibitions After Apartheid: 8 SA Documentary Photographers, 2002 Cape Town …
American Supporters of the Defiance Campaign by George M. Houser
… a meeting of the United Nations Special Committee against Apartheid on June 25, 1982, to commemorate the 30th … to make statement to the Special Committee…
EventEritrea becomes a member of the United Nations.
… by Eritrea to gain recognition from the United Nations (UN). Habte Selassie who represented the Eritrean People’s Liberation Front (EPLF) at the UN argued…
ArticleWomen’s Workplace Oppression in 1970s South Africa by Cait Chapman
… women faced harsh oppressions in the workplace during the apartheid era of South African government. Together, the … the creation of trade unions and…
ArticleThe African Union (AU)
… AU in partnership with international bodies such as the UN has made strides towards managing the multiple conflicts … undertaken a number of hybrid missions…
BiographyAhmed Timol
… the tribulations they had to endure as sportsmen due to Apartheid. The article goes on further to exhort the White … and were more like brothers. Essop also…
EventFirst United Nations General Assembly opens
… Security Council or at the concurrence of the majority of UN members with a single member. The General assembly has debated crucial issues over the years,…
Ruth First Untold by Jerry Saena
… assisted with her important role in the abolishment of apartheid. She wrote major articles and books that would aid anti-colonial and anti-apartheid…
EventJoaquim Chissano succeeds Samora Machel as president of Mozambique
… Soviet Union and RENAMO, supported by United States and apartheid South Africa. At this time, the African National … the time of the accident, it has been…
Americans for South African Resistance, 25 June 1982
… to make statement to the Special Committee against Apartheid on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the … was a very important development in the…
ArticleCurries Fountain events timeline
… By the 90's when all the Liberation organizations where un-banned, Currie's served has a 'home ground' to the ANC …
BiographyPeter Rudolf Gisela Horn
… African poet, who made his mark especially with his anti-Apartheid poetry. During the eighties all his writing in …
BiographyAaron Sipho Madondo
… and Thabane Zulu. As negotiations for the dismantling of Apartheid gathered momentum, political prisoners were …
BiographyLeo Linda Sihlali
… the struggle for education with the struggle against Apartheid. Thus, Sihlali played a role in affiliating Cape …
BiographyZolile Malindi
… an alternative vision to the repressive policies of the apartheid state. When police raided the Congress of the …
BiographyBessie Amelia Head
… family, the Heathcotes, when reclassified according to apartheid legistlation as ‘mixed-race’. Head described her … newssheet, The Citizen, which depicted…
BiographyEla Gandhi
… negotiate and stay in the country. I don't think that the apartheid government realised the massive support that was … in prison because they refused to be…
BiographyReggie Vandeyar
… debate on the launching of an armed struggle against the apartheid state. Vandeyar was among the first to agree to … for a selective cultural boycott; the…
PlaceVenda
… in 1979 it was granted Independence. The United Nations (UN) Security Council condemned the Homelands Policy as a strategy, of the South African Government,…
BiographyDavid Dabede Mabuza
… Luthuli House, which accused Mabuza of being an apartheid spy. Mabuza claimed R10 million in damages from …
BiographyMaggie Bopalamo
… She was approached by security policeman to spy on anti-apartheid comrades. She spoke to Bishop Kevin Dowling, and …
BiographyChristopher Ndodebandla Dlamini
… Amendment Act. On 21 September 1988 a planned anti-apartheid conference, aiming to bring together a wide range …
BiographyEnver Hassim
… Programme. As a consequence, Hassim was sought by the apartheid security police and went into hiding. He deputized …
Subbiah Moodley
… Free State - OFS (now Free State Province). During the Apartheid era, Indians were not allowed to live in the OFS …
ArticleAfrican Resistance Movement (ARM)
… Origins One of the defining moments in the struggle against apartheid in South Africa was the Sharpeville Massacre and … opposed the use of violence as a…
Introduction of A Crime Against Humanity
… A Crime Against Humanity - Analysing the Repression of the Apartheid State edited by Max Coleman This is a book about … to be a crime against humanity and a…
EventGerman South West Africa is put under South African administration
… year with increasing animosity at the United Nations (UN), successor to the League of Nations. On 18 July 1966, the … increased, and in October 1966 the…
ArticleHistory of the Rape Crisis Trust in Cape Town
… of both domestic violence and a gang rape, attended the UN International Year of the Women Conference in Mexico City … violence services of the time were…
EventLibya becomes independent
… country to achieve autonomy through the United Nations (UN) and one of the first former European possessions in … independence Libya, a former Italian…
ArchiveObstacles to free and fair elections in Namibia
… UN Resolution 435, which provided for free and fair elections … on 1 April 1989. A Special Representative of the UN Secretary General and a UN Transition…