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Address to the Swedish Parliament Stockholm, 13 March 1990
… the parties to which you belong, represent the common anti-apartheid and democratic positions of the overwhelming … is between us common cause that we have…
EventThe Chinese Community in South Africa is granted ‘White’ status
… for sport and leisure. In 2008 years after the fall of the Apartheid Regime the Chinese have been classed 'Black' … and others who were subject to…
EventBishop Desmond Tutu is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo
… Tutu, world renowned preacher and strident voice against apartheid, first Black Secretary General of the South African … award recognised his unifying role…
ArticleSouth African Students Movement (SASM)
… that it led to the most sustained period of resistance to apartheid since the period before the banning of the African … 1960 – a series of struggles that…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 78th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1990
… against conscription and for a complete rejection of the apartheid system and its racist tenets, the heroic actions of … of the people of Namibia towards…
ArchiveThe Life of Trevor Huddleston, Makhalipile (the Dauntless One) by Victoria Vandiver, 3 May 2018
… The United Nations referred to apartheid as “a crime against humanity” (United Nations, … for your Comfort, which spoke out vigorously against apartheid…
Document 13 - Sarah Mokone [Victor Wessels] “The T.A.R.C.”, Majority Rule : Some Notes. Chapter XIX
… shorthand introduction to what the struggle against train apartheid was all about, what its difficulties were from the … A.E. (Sonny) Abdurahman, a bare two…
EventMandela signs a law into bill creating the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC)
… was primarily to uncover human rights abuses during the Apartheid era, through public hearings. The lack of racial … and 1994, alongside the human right…
EventUN concerned about Fischer’s arrest
… The United Nations (UN) Committee on the Policy of Apartheid of the Government of South Africa (Special Committee Against Apartheid) expressed very serious…
EventJulius Nyerere chairman of the Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) addresses the ANC in Arusha
… rule in South Africa and encouraged the struggle against apartheid to continue. In his speech he stated that: … Nyerere played an important role in the…
Statement at the Symposium on the Survival and Development of Children in the Frontline States and Southern Africa, Harare, March 1-5, 1988
… is because we have to contend still with the reality of apartheid, oppression, repression and aggression. The … amply demonstrates the correctness of the…
ArticleThe Azania Liberation Support Committee and its publications
… political cartoonist who conceived the British Anti-Apartheid Movement logo – designed the publications’ Robben … logo on the publications’ mastheads and…
EventMass Democratic Movement (MDM) begins their Defiance Campaign
… Parliament. It was one of the most significant anti-apartheid movements, and comprised of 400 church, civic and … to make South Africa ungovernable - thereby…
Extracts from the book ‘A long walk to Freedom’. Nelson Mandela’s autobiography
… characterised by the complete eradication of the system of apartheid, fundamental socio-economic transformation, peace … level of mass mobilisation and mass…
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1960 - 1969
… 16, The Boycott Movement, in London, is renamed the Anti-Apartheid Movement (AAM). Tennyson Makiwane , Vella Pillay … play a significant role in the Boycott…
EventAdriaan Vlok applies for amnesty
… Former apartheid era Minister of Law and Order, Adriaan Vlok, … headquarters in Johannesburg in 1987. He became the first apartheid minister to approach and…
EventDesmond Tutu is appointed TRC chairperson
… Anti-apartheid activist and Nobel laureate Archbishop Mpilo … took place and the rand plunged. At the end of apartheid, Tutu was appointed head of the Truth…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1920-1929
… the ANC and SACP later forged an alliance to fight against apartheid. Anti pass protests and strikes became was a common … committee member of the SACP, MK…
ArchiveClass Consciousness and Migrant Workers by David Hemson (University of Warwick)
… earlier sections came from archives of the colonial and apartheid period. That for later sections came from notes on … of times. The subject and themes were…
Interview with Africa Report by Oliver Tambo, 01 March 1981, New York
… killed? Why are you responding to the violence of apartheid with isolated half measures? TAMBO : There is a misleading appearance of apartheid that is…
Statement by Oliver Tambo at a press conference in Addis Ababa, 11 July 1973
… Prisoners of apartheid July 11, 1973, marked the passage of ten years … to other restrictions for having opposed the policy of apartheid". Despite numerous…
Address by Oliver Tambo to the joint session of Parliament of Trinidad and Tobago, Port-of-Spain, 2 July 1987
… like Nelson Mandela, who are held in the prisons of apartheid. In inviting the African National Congress to … of the world have flowed the policies of…
EventThe Motsuenyane Commission finds the African National Congress (ANC) guilty of abuse in its camps
… Human rights abuses were common in South Africa during the apartheid era and the liberation struggle was aimed at bringing these abuses to an end. When…
EventThe United Democratic Front (UDF) is dissolved
… in August 1983, and was one of the most prominent anti-apartheid movements, comprising of over 400 workers', church, … National Congress (ANC) to strengthen…
Statement by Oliver Tambo at lunch hosted by the Foreign Minister of Venezuela, 13 July 1987, Caracas
… reform, and set in process a nationwide campaign to make apartheid unworkable. Many of the institutions used by the regime to administer apartheid have been…
African National Congress Press Statement by O. R. Tambo, 5 November 1979
… the people to defeat the tyrannical measures which the apartheid regime imposes on us daily. More than at any other … such an outstanding feature in the…
Art lost in a time of struggle by Mary Corrigall
… to, the Medu Art Ensemble, played a role in the anti-apartheid struggle movement, which means that this exhibition … drawings are poignant evocations of the…
ArticleBlack Consciousness and 16 June – The birth of a new generation
… instilled in the youth obviously agitated the Apartheid regime. The process leading up to the Soweto … themselves to the forefront of militant opposition to…
ArticleStaffrider magazine (1978-1993)
… Staffrider’s editorial policy was based on an anti-apartheid ethos. To this end Staffrider was nonracial, … from the South African Study Project of…
‘Ubuqaba’ and ‘UbuGqobhoka’: Reading Zakes Mda’s Heart of Redness through a Post-Developmental lens by Rachel Fenton
… complementary stance. Within the context of Post-Apartheid South Africa, Mda’s novel traces the diverging … Keywords: Zakes Mda, Progress, Post-Development,…