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ArticleUrban Removals - the Destruction of Sophiatown
… alongside Orlando Township. Between 1950 and 1953 the Apartheid Government attempted to force the JMC to implement … and relocate residents in Meadowlands…
ArticleHeritage and identity of Provinces
… lost their land through the 1913 Land Act. Later, under apartheid the division of races and control of black people … own governments, led by chiefs who were…
Group Areas Act and Its Effects on Indian People in Natal, May 1956 by Dr Gangathura Mohambry (Monty) Naicker
… the white ruling group in South Africa. 2. Segregation and apartheid are fundamentally based on the maintenance of white … Party and hence it embodies that…
ArticleConvention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA)
… organisations that were united in their opposition to apartheid gathered in Durban to form the Patriotic Front. The … a white referendum . Although the ANC…
Second World War and its impact, 1939-1948
… Africa used this platform to raise their objections to apartheid. As a result, race surfaced as an international … issue. South Africa and the United Nations…
ArchiveThe African National Congress calls for your support
… on various aspects of the ANC struggle and fight against apartheid: call for support, the armed struggle, laying the … sanctions, the children of resistance,…
EventUN Security Council urges SA government to end Rivonia Trial
… UN resolution, which, while criticising South Africa's apartheid policy, would fall short of defining the situation … to an unsatisfactory African draft…
Document 40 - Anti-CAD, Why You Should Not Vote [1958]
… some of the reasons why you should BOYCOTT this fraud of apartheid and to help in your own political enslavement. YOU … position to say that they, the voters…
Affirming the history of all South Africans
… the millions who helped to rid the world of the scourge of apartheid. It is also true that the formal institutions in … that will chronicle the full story of…
Document 17 - The Groote Schuur Minute
… that you are committed to a non-racist democracy. That apartheid is dead. (We heard that before) Unbanning the ANC, … racist ideas for South Africa. All the…
Speech by Rev. Dr. Allan Boesak at the launch of the United Democratic Front, 20 August 1983, Rocklands Civic Centre, Mitchell’s Plain
… coalition of groups and organisations struggling against apartheid, racism and injustice since the early nineteen … Democratic Front both highlights and…
ArticleKing Kong the Musical 1959 -1961
… challenges, with the pass laws rife and full in force in apartheid South Africa. There was always an actor who would … and White community as it helped many…
ArticleSouth African National Students Congress (SANSCO)
… and students added a dimension to the struggle against Apartheid that changed political landscape in South Africa. … Non racialism, which recognises the…
ArticleBiko’s imprisonment, death and the aftermath
… to Britain. This was seen as added proof that the anti-apartheid student activist had been beaten to death while in … Britain that accused Western businesses…
ArticleGrade 4 - Learning about local history through pictures: Cape Town
… event to be staged in country following the end of apartheid and the country’s advent to democracy in 1994. … the end of the international sports boycott due…
ArticlePondoland revolt - 1950 - 1961
… around issues such as Chiefs who collaborated with the Apartheid state, the land reclamation programme, the Bantu … cause for revolt was Chiefs who…
ArticleNational Union of South African Students (NUSAS)
… organisation. NUSAS started to be vocal and denounce apartheid and its legalisation. This in turn drew fierce … openly challenge the South African government…
Dr. Nelson Mandela’s acceptance address at the Clark University Investiture Atlanta, Georgia, 10 July 1993
… away from the life destroying philosophy of apartheid, now exists because the people of South Africa, … of the future. In the midst of the nightmare, called…
ArchiveSPRO-CAS Occasional Publication Number 2: Sou
… Social Commission of the Study Project on Christianity in Apartheid Society examining South African minorities under apartheid rule. Contents includes: What…
EventSir de Villiers Graaff agrees with SA veto of UN visit
… the United Party, the official opposition, agreed with the apartheid government that the composition of the proposed United Nations Committee to Study…
Dream of Total Liberation of Africa is in Sight - Message of the National Executive Committee of the ANC on the 72nd Anniversary of ANC by O. R. Tambo, 8 January 1984
… We went on to state that within the confines of the apartheid system there was no way out of this crisis situation. Apartheid cannot be reformed. The only…
January 8th Statements -Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 72th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1984
… We went on to state that within the confines of the apartheid system there was no way out of this crisis situation. Apartheid cannot be reformed. The only…
Recorded message by Albert Luthuli to meeting in London in support of South African Leaders arrested on charge of Treason, 1 February 1957
… the "unprecedented human suffering being brought about by apartheid" and said: "But yet we are not despondent. We are … our struggle for freedom by seeing…
EventGhana imposes a total ban on exports to South Africa and South West Africa
… South Africa and South West Africa, as a protest against apartheid. Ghana was one of the first African states to call on South African government to abolish…
Statement by Oliver Tambo on the tenth anniversary of the Soweto uprising, 16 June 1986
… who fell in that titanic battle against the forces of apartheid repression. And so the repression we experience … part of the country, uniting all our people…
"The Count-Down has Started": Statement on the Tenth Anniversary of the Soweto Uprising by O. R. Tambo, 16 June 1986
… who fell in that titanic battle against the forces of apartheid repression. And so the repression we experience … part of the country, uniting all our…
Document 38 - Certification of the Constitution; a summary of the judgment of the Constitutional Court
… alliance of the two congresses, confronting the apartheid regime which had come to power in 1948 and had … a crucial role in promoting multi-racial…
Speech by Oliver Tambo at the World Conference on Sanctions Against Racist South Africa: Victory is within our grasp, 16 June 1986, Unesco House, Paris
… Chairman of the United Nations Special Committee against Apartheid, Your Excellency Shridath Ramphal, … are no people anywhere in the world who do not know…
Victory is Within our Grasp: Statement at the World Conference on Sanctions against Racist South Africa by O. R. Tambo, UNESCO House, Paris, 16 June 1986
… of the United Nations Special Committee against Apartheid, Your Excellency Shridath Ramphal, … are no people anywhere in the world who do not know what…
Mobilise Our Black Power - Statement to the People of South Africa on the Tenth Anniversary of Umkhonto we Sizwe by O. R. Tambo, 16 December 1971
… in our fatherland - South Africa - the fascist monster of apartheid is resorting to more and more draconian tortures … the people of South Africa to unite…