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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…
"We have Decided to Liberate Ourselves": Address to the Royal Commonwealth Society by O. R. Tambo, London, 23 June 1986
… the Commonwealth wanted to do to bring about an end to the apartheid system. The question was whether sanctions or no … not only to the issue of what should…
ArticleHistory of Photography in South Africa
… three important eras, colonisation, repression and Apartheid and the democratic dispensation. It is against this …
EventANC mounts a sabotage attack on fuel depot in Ermelo
… Africa heralded a time of increased resistance against the Apartheid regime. The liberation movements had increased its military actions against the…
EventSA author, Nadine Gordimer, is born
… subject matter in the past has been the effect of apartheid on the lives of South Africans, the moral and … life in a racially-divided country. She often…
Statement at the Eighth Conference of Heads of State or Government of Non-Aligned Countries by O. R. Tambo, Harare, 1 - 6 September 1986
… here to discuss, among other matters, the question of apartheid. The path we have traversed from the United … this historic gathering, we sound the death…
Press Conference In London by O. R. Tambo, 21 March 1984
… been killings, pursued in the interests of preserving the apartheid system, nothing on that scale had occurred since the accession to power of the apartheid…
ANC Press Statement presented by Oliver Tambo, 16 August 1985, Lusaka
… to an arrogant reaffirmation by P.W. Botha that the apartheid system will continue unchanged. At a time when … every thinking person in our country and…
ANC Press Statement by O. R. Tambo, Lusaka, 16 August 1985
… to an arrogant reaffirmation by P.W. Botha that the apartheid system will continue unchanged. At a time when … every thinking person in our country and…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…