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The State of Art in South Africa Conference
… ethical responsibilities of the artist with regard to the Apartheid State , calling for recognition of state control … that of cultural worker, as someone…
ArticleThe caring nature of Nontsikelelo Albertina Sisulu
… school made her well-suited for work as a nurse and a anti-Apartheid activist. Nontsikelelo Albertina’s role as a … brought about through defining moments in…
ArticleThe History of Separate Development in South Africa
… become central aspects of South African policy long before Apartheid started. The notorious 1913 Land Act , passed three … Party won the 1948 general…
The Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA): CODESA 2
… organisations that were united in their opposition to apartheid gathered in Durban to form the Patriotic Front. The … Exchange of Memoranda Mass Action…
Biography of Lionel Ngakane by Rod Reyna
… political activist. Ngakane served South Africa during the apartheid era outside the country, by contributing to the advancement of Black filmmaking, and…
ArchiveAppendix 7 South Africa, the transition to democracy and the banning of torture, by Denis Goldberg
… our Constitution, banned torture. We brought an end to the apartheid dictatorship based on racism by law and the … merely put under psychological pressure…
Biography of George Hallett by Hunter Kolon
… because of the continual hardships and injustices of the apartheid state. Hallett grew up in a fishing village outside … George Hallett, Photography,…
ArticleAfrican National Congress (ANC)
… galvanized the party. As a result of the establishment of apartheid, its aversion to dissent by Black people and brutal … pressure and the collapse of the…
Address by the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, on the occasion of the unveiling of the FIFA Soccer World Cup South Africa 2010 emblem, Tempodrom, Berlin 7 July 2006
… President of FIFA, Joseph Sepp Blatter, Your Excellency, UN Secretary General, Kofi Annan, Your Excellency, CAF … Africans who have triumphed over the…
Gertrude Fester Biography by Nehal Patel
… born on 4 July 1952, in the fourth year of South Africa’s apartheid state. By this time, policies, such as the Group … Cape Town . After growing up in…
ArticleAlbertina Sisulu and the organisations she was connected to
… outside of the ANCWL would be the only way to defeat the Apartheid system, they worked hard to form valuable alliances … them to learn under the Bantu…
Opening remarks by President Jacob Zuma to the 3rd Nobel Laureate Symposium on global sustainability - transforming the world in an era of global change, Inkosi Albert Luthuli ICC, African Pavilion, Durban, 06 December 2011
… and related solutions to climate change. This UN climate change conference in Durban, COP 17/CMP7 is all … This symposium is very important to members of the…
ArticleNontsikelelo Albertina Sisulu’s “Mother of the Nation” Legacy
… career choice as a nurse, and her involvement in the anti-apartheid struggle. Her profession as a midwife at … people, she preserved through personal…
PlaceSarah Baartman Centre for Women and Children, Manenberg
… encapsulated in the South African Victims Charter and the UN Conventions protecting the rights of women and children. … encapsulated in the South African…
ArticleThe Tricameral Parliament, 1983-1984
… assembly that presided over the last decade of Apartheid, was inaugurated to allow for parliamentary … separate chambers, a supposed reform and improvement…
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Special Focus: Wrangling between political groups - 1947
… another resolution." "This meeting is convinced that the UN General A.W resolution may best be put into effect and … that nothing should be done in this line…
Address by President Thabo Mbeki at the Opening of Phase 1B of the Lesotho Highlands Water Project, Mohale Dam, Kingdomof Lesotho, 16 March 2004
… In his World Water Day message in 2002, United Nations (UN) Secretary-General, Kofi Annan observed that "fierce … the realisation of the African Water Vision…
ArticleSouth Africa’s electoral history timeline 1910-2009
… 1948 The historic election that brought the party of Apartheid policies, the Nationalist Party to power. 1953 An … 1958 This is an election that made the…
Abdullah Ibrahim and the Politics of Jazz in South Africa
… struggle waged by Black and Colored musicians against the apartheid regime, from the early 1950s until the 1990s, … career is entrenched in South Africa’s…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 2011 - 2020
… It reveals that between the first and the most recent post-apartheid census the population grew by just over 11 million … bid to become a full member of the…
Poqo political trials and the execution of its operatives in the 1960s
… massacre on 21 March 1960 . Soon thereafter the apartheid government banned the African National Congress … underground structures and networks. In response,…
ArticleInternational Rugby World Cup Timeline 1983-2011
… controversy. In the 1960s, as international criticism of apartheid grew, the Springboks became increasingly isolated … arena as they were seen as…
ArticleHIV/Aids in South Africa timeline 1940s-2009
… a landmark in the campaign against stigma in Africa. The apartheid government recognized that HIV and AIDS had the … WHO AIDS programme, to protest against…
ArticleThe History of LGBT legislation
… these are words that were used to explain South Africa’s Apartheid regime, which officially lasted from 1948-1994 (Thompson, 1990). Millions were affected by…
The search for Peter Johnson’s story
… after his family forfeited their home during Apartheid. His sisters were all sent to orphanages, but he … Robben Island at a time of powerful resistance…
The historical significance of COSATU’s Workers’ Charter Campaign
… unions revolted. Then with the emergence of the Apartheid regime they eventually left and by 1954 formed the … “sweetheart union” that closely aligned itself…
ArticleRace and ethnicity in South Africa
… explosive idea during colonization, as well as during the Apartheid period which begun in 1948. Race is defined as a … distinct and similar physical…
ArticleFootball in South Africa
… (1950s) After the Second World War and the rise of apartheid, football's mass popularity brought it into close … to form the South African Soccer Federation,…
Article1976-1983: Mass Democratic movements
Introduction
ArticleMass Democratic movements, 1976-1983
… of young Blacks were committed to the struggle against apartheid under the slogan 'Liberation before education'. … for an understanding of the direction the…