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EventThe 25th Summer Olympics opens in Barcelona, Spain
… in international sports events because of its apartheid policies. With apartheid abolished, South Africa was able to send a team to …
EventFrance supplies two new combat submarines to South Africa
… Ocean. At the time, the Soviet Union was supporting Anti-Apartheid movements like the African National Congress (ANC). … also reiterated Soviet support for…
Statement at the 50th Session of the OAU Coordinating Committee for the Liberation Of Africa by O. R. Tambo, Harare, 13 May 1988
… monster that has ever stalked the African continent - the apartheid regime of South Africa. It is indeed most … South Africa what next should be done to end…
Speech at Meeting to Commemorate South Africa Freedom Day and to Condemn the 600-year Alliance between Britain and Portugal by O. R. Tambo, London, 20 June 1973
… the national liberation struggle against colonialism and apartheid in Africa, (2) the tenth Summit of the … the epoch-making International Trade Union…
PlaceDitsong National Museum of Military History, Johannesburg
… as well as items relating to the armed struggle against apartheid. The museum was opened in 1947 by South Africa’s … is also a wealth of more modern exhibits…
EventEditors oppose legislation on media control
… both English and Afrikaans, unanimously opposed the apartheid government's planned legislation to establish a … over three days to argue their case against…
EventThe company, IBM, re-forms in South Africa
… to criticisms that it was continuing to profit from Apartheid by saying it was proud of its role in South Africa, … the international divestment campaign,…
Document 9 - First letter from Nelson Mandela to Hendrik Verwoerd
… and seriously, could create the possibility to end apartheid through negotiations. Such an eventuality would be … struggle to get together to negotiate an…
Document 13 - Declaration of the Organization of African Unity (OAU) ad hoc committee on southern Africa on the question of South Africa; Harare, Zimbabwe (The Harare Declaration) Sections 14-24
… and seriously, could create the possibility to end apartheid through negotiations. Such an eventuality would be … struggle to get together to negotiate an…
Article20 Years of Democracy (1994 - 2014) - Profiles of the Presidents
… for the first time on 27 April 1994 to mark the end of apartheid rule and establish a new Constitutional order. This …
EventGoldstone report on police shootings in Sebokeng is released
… Goldstone, into the shooting by the police of anti-Apartheid protesters in the township of Sebokeng on 26 March, … made public. On 26 March police had opened…
EventAllan Boesak resigns from the church
… Kerk (Dutch Reformed Church) and leading anti apartheid orator, has being officially relieved of his duties … Botha, a television producer and niece of a…
EventBarclays Bank changes its name to First National Bank
… Barclays Bank's involvement in South Africa and its apartheid government, Barclays Bank (SA) announced its new … one, the pressure exerted against the bank…
EventConstable Vlotman is given a R500 fine and a five year suspension sentence
… may have been intended to create the impression that the Apartheid government was concerned about threats to media … freedom. However, the sentence meted out…
EventDrum Magazine calls for the release of all political prisoners
… Drum Magazine was instrumental in the struggle against apartheid. It often exposed ills committed against black people by the apartheid regime during the…
EventGwen Lister is born
… South African born Namibian Journalist, publisher and anti apartheid activist. She was born in East London on 5 December … In Namibia Lister focussed on…
EventThe UDF launches the Million Signatures Campaign and by October collect just under 400 000 signatures.
… On 22 January 1984, amidst the Apartheid government’s constitutional reform plans, … from the public, declaring opposition against the Apartheid government…
ArchiveCelebrating and commemorating twenty-years of the Harare declaration by Kgolane Alfred Rudolph PHALA
… and seriously, could create the possibility to end apartheid through negotiations". We look back at this … the vision of a negotiated settlement to the…
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 … to life imprisonment for conspiring to…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 75th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1987
… did 75 years ago, to confront the iniquitous system of apartheid colonial and racist domination, in unity. This … humanity, namely the liquidation of the…
ArticleA history of Kwaito music
… keep a ready supply of cheap labour under control by the apartheid government. Many groups have begun to be exposed to …
ArticleRichard David Turner Timeline 1941 - 1978
… with SPRO-CAS (Stidy Project on Christianity in an Apartheid Society) begins 1972 Publication of SPRO-CAS …
Journals
… History is now regarded as a dynamic discipline, in apartheid South Africa it tended to be associated with …
Interview with Oliver Tambo by Le Monde, Addis Ababa, 08 June 1983
… armed struggle until final victory is achieved over the apartheid regime. "Those who died this morning," Mr. Tambo … own operations show an escalation in the…
ArchiveThe Mission by Denis Goldberg - Foreword by Dr Z. Pallo Jordan
… from a different viewpoint because the racist dogmas of apartheid dictated that he would be incarcerated apart from … (in Silver), “For his commitment to the…
Message to the Soweto Rally to Welcome Released Leaders by O. R. Tambo, 29 October 1989
… of a century and more; the murder of thousands by the apartheid army and police and their secret murder squad; the … who have suffered from the daily…
Speech at the Tenth General Conference of the United National Independence Party by O. R. Tambo, Zambia, August 1988
… resistance by various international forces, among them the apartheid regime in South Africa, whose war of … Sharpeville six, there are scores of patriots…
PHOTOGRAPHY REVIEW; Documenting Ordinary Scenes Of South Africa Then and Now by Michael Kimmelman (The New York Times), 24 August 2001
… ordinary life, or what passed for ordinary life in apartheid South Africa. In time, he became his country's most … metaphorically suggesting the…
EventDarrell Roodt was born on this day
… was born in Johannesburg. Growing up during the height of Apartheid South Africa, he always used the art of film to … regime. His film Place of Weeping is…
EventRuth First is assassinated in Mozambique
… Ruth First , journalist, academic, anti-apartheid activist and member of the South African Communist … with her husband, Joe Slovo , during the height of…