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EventThe General Assembly of the League of Nations meets in Geneva for the first time
… where they adopted the Charter of the United Nations(UN). Three months later the UN was officially launched when the signatory countries … Africa was one of…
EventThe last French troops pull out of Rwanda
… the start of the genocide. By the time the United Nations (UN) troops had been stationed in Rwanda, thousands of Tutsi … election. With the process of re…
BiographyJabulile Nyawose
… a township south of Durban, designated under the apartheid Group Areas Act for Indians only, to discuss what …
BiographyMoses Ndlovu
… experience with the racially oppressive system of the apartheid government came at the tender age of 14 when he …
BiographyLloyd Spencer
… worked for Ravan Press, (Staffrider Magazine) an anti-Apartheid publishing house and was lucky enough to be …
EventInternational Day of Peace Vigil is observed
… was observed as the third International Day of Peace. The UN resolution called on all UN member states, regional and non-governmental organisations ……
EventSanctions are applied on Libya over Lockerbie bombing
… Governments across the world applied United Nations (UN) sanctions against Libya because of its alleged … decided to ignore some of the sanctions imposed by…
BiographyEllen Phyllis Hellman
… on the outskirts of Johannesburg. Her opposition to the apartheid regime led her into active politics and she was a …
BiographyArchie Mafeje
… However, his appointment was reversed because of an apartheid law. His removal sparked a protest by UCT student …
BiographyProfessor Emeritus Phillip Tobias
… During his student years, Tobias was also active in anti-apartheid politics, and was the chair of the National Union …
BiographyMaggie Resha
… “… her excellent contribution to the struggle against the apartheid system in South Africa and fighting gender …
BiographyCyril Matamela Ramaphosa
… the resignation of Jacob Zuma. Previously an anti-apartheid activist, trade union leader and businessman, …
BiographyRowley Israel Arenstein
… active in organizing opposition to the new laws enforcing apartheid and in establishing labour unions in …
BiographyMagdaline ‘Maggie’ Resha
… “her excellent contribution to the struggle against the apartheid system in South Africa and fighting gender …
EventUS Secretary of State Cyrus Vance travels to South Africa to promote transition to black rule in Namibia
South Africa had seized the German territory (then known as South-West Africa) during World War I and retained it after the war under a League of Nations…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1980-1989
… liberation soldier, James Mange , were circulated at a UN Women's Conference in Copenhagen. 500 signatures were … against South Africa, organized by the…
The African Resistance Movement (ARM): An Organisational History
… 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…
Address at the 58th session of the United Nations General Assembly 23 September 2003
… Assembly, Mr. Julian Hunte, Secretary-General of the UN, Mr. Kofi Annan, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen: … other speakers have said about the deaths…
BiographyPeter Sexford Magubane
… has published 17 books, two of which were banned by the Apartheid government,” Black As I Am” (with poetry by Zindzi …
EventSouth Africa mandated to govern South
… Africa. This request was rejected by the United Nations (UN), the new international body which was formed after World War 2. The UN advised that the…
Propaganda and the Pursuit of Hegemonic Goals – The Myanmar and Zimbabwe Experience by Thabo Mbeki, 29 February 2016
… the invasion of Iraq against the express opposition of the UN Security Council, our best protective shield as the … by all countries, big and small; respect…
ArticleAfrica’s Millennium Development Goals
… any of the goals of the Millennium Declaration by 2015.” (UN World Summit Declaration, 2005). [xvii] “iAnchorn Africa… … Development Goals [Online]…
EventSouth Africa completes destroying its stockpile of anti-personnel mines
… and transit of all types of landmines in line with the UN General Assembly Resolution on landmines. In May 1996, the … affected by landmines that were…
EventNavanethem (Navi) Pillay is born
… Navanethem (Navi) Pillay, the United Nations (UN) High Commissioner for Human Rights was born on 23 … from different political organizations detained by the…
BiographyWalter Ulyate Sisulu
… the government of DF Malan prepared to implement its new apartheid policy by introducing a series of harsh racial laws … on 26 June 1950 to protests against…
EventProceedings against SA start in the International Court of Justice
… After the founding of the United Nations Organisation (UN) in 1945, that organisation insisted more and more … SWA should become a trust territory,…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1940-1949
… Party seized power and set in motion plans to implement apartheid. 1940 Walter Sisulu and Professor Z. K. Matthews … contact with the Indian delegation at…
Statement by Oliver Tambo at the International Conference in solidarity with the frontline states and Lesotho, Lisbon, 25 March 1983
… of the struggle against the inhuman and expansionist apartheid system. We meet also because, in that southern … between the regime and SWAPO and to the…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1940-1949
… contact with the Indian delegation at the United Nations (UN). 12 August, The African Mineworkers Union launches the … the white-only national elections with…
BiographyGertrude Hope (nee Posthumus) Cooper
… neighbours but who had to bear the brunt of unjust Apartheid legislation. Her career was temporarily put on hold …