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EventEdgar Whitehead succeeds Garfield Todd as premier of South Rhodesia.
… Todd remained active in Zimbabwean politics up to his death in 2002. …
EventPolitical activist Molly Blackburn is born
… Bishop and the driver of the other car were killed. Her death stunned people from all races and her funeral was …
EventCall for a stay-away in Black townships
… while 31 people were arrested. However, the official death toll was given on 7 November 1984 as 23. The boycott in …
EventHarms releases his report
… forward to shed light on who is responsible for the death of anti-apartheid activists David Webster and Anton …
EventPeter Nchabeleng President of Northern Transvaal UDF dies
… that her husband has died in hospital. The cause of his death was undisclosed. However, his son who testified before …
EventYouth rage follows the funeral of Victoria Mxenge
… to their call for a workers' stay away to mourn the death of Mxenge. As result, 30 percent of the workforce in …
EventChief Malaboch is taken prisoner
… 2. The chief returned to his people and ruled until his death in 1939. Source: Potgieter, D.J. et al. (eds)(1970). …
EventZulu King Cetshwayo Dies
… prior attempt to assassinate him, it is possible that his death was caused by a heart attack, rather than the poisoning …
EventBrenda Fassie, South African singer and diva, dies in her sleep at Sunninghill Hospital
… on 9 May 2004 after spending two weeks in a coma. Her death was reported to have been caused by a cocaine overdose. …
EventChris Hani, the SACP secretary-general, is assassinated
… in front of his 15-year-old daughter Nomakhwezi. The death of the leader of the armed wing of the ANC and popular …
EventFormer Egyptian President Anwar al-Sadat is born
… later served as Vice President to Nasser. Following the death of Nasser in September 1970 Sadat took over the reins …
Chapter 2 - Historical Background
… signed in Washington D.C. on 1 January 1942. In 1948 the National Party (NP) came to power, introduced the … 150 different religious, social, cultural, and…
ArticleConstructing heritage and heritage resources
… our families and our society. It includes the DNA in our bodies, the language we speak, the culture that we are a part … carbon-12 and carbon-14. Carbon-14…
Deployment of Racism in South Africa by Rooha Variava
… Ideology in the Development of Afrikaner Nationalism, 1934-1948 , (Cambridge, 1983), esp. pp. 3-17. Davies, Capital, … were to be sought through the…
PlaceQueenstown, now known as Komani.
… Center for surrounding Farmers and smaller Towns. After 1948, and the beginning of the Apartheid era , the District …
ArticleSouth Africa’s Academic and Cultural Boycott
… Introduction In 1948 with the election of the National Party and the …
ArticleThe 1913 Women’s anti-pass campaign in the Orange Free State
… when the Apartheid government that had come to power in 1948 began forcing women to carry passes. After visiting …
ArticleAfrican National Congress Youth League (ANCYL)
… 1950s the National Party (NP), which came into power in 1948 introduced harsh and oppressive laws towards blacks. In …
ArticleLiberal Party of South Africa (LPSA)
… The ascendancy of the apartheid government in 1948 signalled a descent into institutionalized racism unseen …
ArticleThe Anti-Apartheid Movement Abroad 1906 - 1990
… as fund for African democracy. It aimed to promote legal bodies in South Africa and not the illegal ANC or SACP. 1953 …
ArticleCouncil of Non-European trade unions (CNETU)
… CNETU began to forge ties with international trade union bodies. Influenced by the militant tradition it had …
Address by President Thabo Mbeki at the Opening of Phase 1B of the Lesotho Highlands Water Project, Mohale Dam, Kingdomof Lesotho, 16 March 2004
… the many officials who have served in the various project bodies. The Lesotho Highlands Water Project is a bi-national … in all activities of the…
ArchiveChapter 8 The Rivonia Trial by Denis Goldberg
… so strong that he had to do anything he could to avoid the death sentence. I understood that, but also knew that my life … knew that there was a mass of…
What the lives of two South African music giants tell us about culture under apartheid by Gwen Ansell (The Conversation), 13 July 2017
… of their deaths. Although many aficionados knew of Mekoa’s death within hours of the event, it took most of the media … up, tailing after tributes from…
ArchiveConcentration camps in the South African War? Here are the real facts by Fransjohan Pretorius, (The Conversation), February 18, 2019
… Project the Glasgow Centre for Population Health gives the death rate of people in the city as 21 per 1000 per annum in … Anglo-Boer War Museum, Bloemfontein…
ArticleAbram Fischer Timeline 1908-1975
… the Communist Party, trade unions and Guardian newspaper. 1948 February, Bram acts as a junior to Harold Hanson in a … the Treason Trial, provides a memorial…
Documents, speeches, Awards, and articles relating to Albert John Luthuli
… war to destroy Nazi imperialism and racism. The final death knell for the European empires was rung and starting … policies must take account of it". Between…
ArticleThe History of LGBT legislation
… Africa’s Apartheid regime, which officially lasted from 1948-1994 (Thompson, 1990). Millions were affected by … dream of an Afrikaner Empire was beginning to…
Birthday message by Albert Luthuli to Dr. Yusuf M. Dadoo, 2 September 1955
… gain in momentum to become an avalanche that will strike a death blow to oppression in South Africa. From Treason Trial …
Indian Opinion
… edited by Sushila Gandhi (Manilal's wife) after Manilal's death. This was to promote nationhood and represent the …