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EventCiskei National Security Decree No 19 promulgated
… Act, which was used to crush resistance against the Apartheid government Click here for a broader chronology of apartheid legislation. Click here to read a…
EventWinnie Mandela attacked by a group of people
… Supreme Court in Cape Town. She blamed the attack on the apartheid government, which, she said, was working hard to … her husband. Because the Qunta family…
EventDeath of Harry Oppenheimer
… played a crucial role in politics and openly opposed apartheid. In 1998, commenting on apartheid he said: "Disagreeable though it may be, we must …
EventBram Fischer born today
… Abraham (Bram) Fischer, lawyer and champion against apartheid, was born in Bloemfontein, Orange Free State on 23 … (CPSA), openly participating in its…
EventJustin Alexander (Alex) La Guma, SA novelist, short story writer and political activist, is born in Cape Town
… as Coloured. La Guma’s father was involved in anti-apartheid activism, a path that he would also follow. La Guma … most of them depicting the plight of black…
EventWhite sympathisers join evicted Black squatters in a protest
… squatters from three camps. In the 1970s and 80s the Apartheid government embarked on a concerted effort of … had acquired legal status as a place of…
2010 FIFA Soccer World Cup is a tribute to Africa - ANC, 21 May 2010
… to the peoples struggles waged in the continent against apartheid and colonialism, which left scores of people dead, … neighbouring Frontline States ravaged…
Statement of Acceptance of the Ho Chi Minh Award Bestowed on the ANC by the World Peace Council by O. R. Tambo, Luanda, 15 December 1986
… struggle for the destruction of the imperialist supported apartheid system and thus make their own contribution to the … As we receive the Ho Chi Minh…
Statement by Oliver Tambo of acceptance of the Ho Chi Minh award bestowed on the African National Congress by the World Peace Council, 15 December 1986, Luanda
… struggle for the destruction of the imperialist supported apartheid system and thus make their own contribution to the … friends, As we receive the Ho Chi…
Hlaudi manifesto gives Jimi Matthews and his SABC comrades no option but to vote #Hlexit by Ra'eesa Pather (Mail & Guardian), 27 June 2016
… a sell-out, disappointed that his legacy as an anti-apartheid activist had been tainted by this newfound, … the SABC’s uncomfortable history as complicit…
ArchiveOpening Address of Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory and Commemoration Project, by Nelson Mandela, 21 September 2004, Johannesburg
… to see the symbolic significance of this event. Under the apartheid regime it was a common practice for the authorities … that we can recover memories and…
PlaceRobben Island Museum
… for healthcare purposes, it was still receiving prisoners! Apartheid (“apartness” in the language of Afrikaans)—an … to destroy their humanity. Nelson…
Press Conference in Lusaka: Oliver Tambo, 25 June 1985
… about, let us be united in defeating and destroying the apartheid regime. Some organisations, for example, don`t … them that the Freedom Charter poses the…
Press Conference by O. R. Tambo, Lusaka, 25 June 1985
… about, let us be united in defeating and destroying the apartheid regime. Some organisations, for example, don't … them that the Freedom Charter poses the…
ArchiveBiography of Dorothy Nyembe by Thomas Boatman
… of the premier freedom fighters in the struggle against apartheid in South Africa. She would also become the face of women’s anti-apartheid activism despite…
EventControversial ‘Black Jesus’ painter, Ronald Harrison, dies
… Christ, depicts Luthuli crucified on the cross next to apartheid mastermind Hendrick Verwoed and former Minister of … as Roman Soldiers. The painting not…
EventThe English Cricket Council calls off South African cricket tour
… composition of the South African team among the anti-Apartheid activists and countries that were opposed to the Apartheid government of South Africa. For…
EventCOSATU conference prohibited and organisers restricted
… The government prohibited an anti-apartheid conference organised by COSATU in Cape Town, which … aimed to include delegates from a broad spectrum of anti…
EventAfrikaans is used for the first time in an international document with the signing of the Convention of Mozambique in Pretoria
… Mozambique in Pretoria. The language’s close link with the apartheid government has meant that it has inherited the legacy of being the oppressor’s language…
EventAndré Phillipus Brink, well-known SA author, is born
… Sixty-ers"). The group used literature to speak up against Apartheid and to bring about a European influence to … of Brink and his contemporaries’ books…
EventDr David Webster, a social anthropologist at Wits University and political activist, is shot dead outside his home
… became involved in politics. He was active in the anti-apartheid movement, especially in the Detainees’ Parents’ … The aim of the committee was to support…
Speech at the Meeting of Representatives of the Parties and Movements Participating in the Celebration of the 70th Anniversary of the "Great October Socialist Revolution" by O. R. Tambo, Moscow, November 4-5, 1987
… the remaining bastilles of colonial and racist oppression. Apartheid Aggression However, more than forty years after the successful conclusion of the Second…
ArchiveWhat lost photos of Blue Notes say about South Africa’s jazz history by Lindelwa Dalamba , 14 October 2019
… iconic. The story of the Blue Notes is inextricable from apartheid’s exiling of the musical – specifically jazz – … and the dynamics of its struggles during…
Message by Oliver Tambo on the 40th anniversary of the three doctors` pact, 09 March 1987
… spearheading the campaign for international action against apartheid and support for our liberation struggle. This role … of inspiration and strength for all…
PlaceLebowa
… During the apartheid period, Lebowa was the homeland of the North Sotho … Under the South African constitution that abolished the apartheid system, Lebowa…
Address by ANC President, Nelson Mandela, to the International Solidarity Conference Johannesburg, 19 February 1993
… You refused to let the world ignore the tragedy wreaked by apartheid. And today you are here with us, many of you for … disease, poverty and violence; That…
EventFather Michael Lapsley, an Anglican priest, is injured by a letter-bomb
… it was his duty to speak out against the injustices of the Apartheid regime. In 1976, the Apartheid government exiled Father Lapsley for his … at: justice…
EventMandela signs SA Constitution into law
… and set in motion processes that laid the foundation for apartheid. On 21 March 1960 police opened fire on a crowd … This resulted in the negotiations for…
Statement by Oliver Tambo on the murder of Griffiths Mxenge, 01 November 1981
… years on Robben Island prison after being convicted by the apartheid courts on a charge of membership of the ANC after … his commitment to bring to an end…
WE HAVE THE KEY TO FREEDOM NOT THE OPPRESSOR, December 16, 1957
… Party that has plagued our country since 1948 with apartheid, a most deadly policy. Is it too much to hope that … of the crown against people and…