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… was a member of the Liberal Party of South Africa during Apartheid. The party strongly opposed Apartheid policies and the government would go on to ban many … the banned members would go on to leave South Africa to be in exile, including Ann Tobias. She was the daughter of a …

… his wife Dhanalutchmee Pillay. The Naiker family arrived in South Africa when Monty's grandfather came from India to … "United Democratic Front" as early as 1948, soon after the apartheid regime came to power. Speaking at a mass meeting to … headed the Anti-SAIC in 1977 and began a campaign against apartheid institutions created by the government. In 1966 he …

… activities, Mnyele was forced to leave his family in Alexander, becoming exiled in Botswana. He became very active in the African National … (ANC) military wing Umkhonto We Sizwe (MK). On June 14, 1985, Thami Mnyele was shot dead by South African Defence … H-Net A South African Artist in the Age of Apartheid [online] Available at: www.h-net.org [Accessed on …

… The landscape of Black political activity in the 1960s was a very different one from that of the previous decade. The apartheid government had shattered the Black resistance movements, in particular the African National Congress. Those Black … Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa …

… Mohammed Valli Moosa, born in Johannesburg on 9 February 1957, was a political activist … served as Minister of Environmental and Tourism Affairs in South Africa. He became actively involved in politics … of Durban-Westville. He found himself on the wrong side of apartheid laws for participating in political activities. …

… teacher, and David James Alexander, a carpenter. It was in the rural Eastern Cape  that he initially kept a strong … of his students, but soon he would become a victim of the apartheid judicial system. Imprisonment on Robben Island … Consciousness Movement  was confronting the ravages of apartheid and the Soweto student revolts while trying to …

… Sithembiso Tony Yengeni was born in Cape Town and grew up in two Cape townships, Gugulethu and Nyanga. He completed his … of government’s determined effort to crack down on anti-apartheid movements, Yengeni voluntarily went into exile as …

… Dutch anti-apartheid movement poster. Artwork of a soldier with a rifle … and some knives. Black and white poster, cursive writing in red. … A well known soldier in an unknown war …

… Livingstone Ballinger was born on 11th of January 1894 in Scotland. She emigrated to South Africa with her family in 1904. She was a member of the white Native Representatives … Oxford writing her memoirs and published as From Union to Apartheid: A Trek to Isolation(1969). …

… Harold Wolpe was born on 14 January 1926 in Johannesburg to a Lithuanian Jewish family. Wolpe … African Communist Party (SACP) represented several anti-apartheid figures in the 1950s and 1960s in political cases … Cheap Labour Power in South Africa: From Segregation to Apartheid’ ( in Economy and Society, Vol. 1, No. 4, 1972 ) …

… Nqcunqwane on his release from Robben Island prison in March 1991. Recruitment poster for Anti-apartheid Movement and SATIS, London. … Free all political prisoners in South African …

… Ismail " Tatamkhulu Afrika"  Joubert   was born in As Sallum in Egypt as Mohamed Faud Nasif to an Arab father and a … Al-Jihaad was not only opposed to but fought against apartheid. It was also a welfare organisation. Ismail Joubert … Town?), pp.115-117|Robin Malan, (2010), Burning a Hole in the page, A Readers guide to 70 South African Authors, …

… delivered his 'winds of change' speech, condemning apartheid, to members of both Houses of Parliament in Cape Town . He suggested that the South African government … had not yet appreciated the force of the "winds of change" in the world and especially in Africa. This was the first …

… five children of Ama and Thambi "Naran" Naidoo, was born in Pretoria , Transvaal (now Gauteng ) on 6 March 1935. She … regime was freely granting “exit permits” to opponents of Apartheid, depriving them of citizenship and prohibiting … permit” though she had never been convicted even by an Apartheid court. On 19 June 1969, Shanthie was detained under …

… Jean Alkin was born on 19 May 1914 in Panevezys, Lithuania. She was the eldest of four children. … when she was 16 years at Cape Town High School in 1934. Post-matric, she became an active participant in … discuss issues that surrounded the negotiations with the apartheid government. She resided in Kenilworth , Cape Town …

… Harriet Ngubane was born in 1929 at Inchanga, a rural area near Pietermaritzburg, … the female figure, Nomkhubulwane, the goddess of fertility in Zulu cosmology. She believed that Nomkhubulwane's name was … Agriculture and Co-operatives) between 1978 and 1984. In 1985 she was elected as adviser to the International Labour …

… on 22 October 1941 at the Inchanga Roman Catholic Mission in Camperdown, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal - KZN). He matriculated at St Francis College, Mariannhill, Natal, in 1960 and went on to graduate with an MB ChB in 1971 from … international congresses of the Red Cross in 1981, 1983, 1985, and 1987. He became a member of the Council of the …

… Sifiso Nkabinde was born in 1960 in Richmond, KwaZulu-Natal. His father was a policeman and a … the ANC on suspicion of having been a spy for the former apartheid government. He denied the allegation stating that, … Call for peace in South Africa .  BBC  [Online] 31 January 1999. Available …

… Minutes of the National Conference of the Black Sash held in Port Elizabeth from 14 to 17 March 1985, discussing: Minutes of previous conference, magazine, … detentions, End Conscription Campaign, crisis in Black education. … Minutes of the National Conference of the Black Sash held in Port Elizabeth …

… for a Democratic South Africa, or CODESA II, ends in a deadlock. The negotiating parties ie. The South African … to facilitate a new constitutional dispensation for a post-apartheid South Africa. Established by the end of 1991, it … laid an important foundation for future multiracial talks in South Africa including the setting of a date to finalise …

… Police Colonel Eugene de Kock began with his testimony in Pretoria Supreme Court by revealing his part in the apartheid regime's 'dirty tricks' campaign. Pleading in … Col Eugene de Kock testifies in Court …

… A teacher training college in South Africa opened on 26 January 1896, in Wellington, in the Western Cape, South Africa. It was a settlement of the … A teachers training college in South Africa opened in Wellington …

… Olivia Forsyth escaped from her guards and took refuge in the British embassy in Luanda. She was a self-confessed SA spy of the security police in the African National Congress who was held prisoner at the … Olivia Forsyth takes refuge in British embassy in Luanda …

… Riots erupted in East London, Eastern Cape after strike meetings were … Nelson Mandela, Yusuf Dadoo and Walter Sisulu defied Apartheid laws in Johannesburg and other major city centres. The period 1950 … Boddy-Evans, A. ‘This Day in African History: 9 November’ , [online], available at …

… specific one. The latest earthquake to hit the country was in 2012, while the most devastating ever recorded was in 1716 .It measured 7.5 on the Richter Scale and claimed 20 … Algeria is one of the few earthquake prone countries in Africa.  … Anon,  List of important earthquakes in Algeria between 1365 and 1990,   [online] Available at  …

… Reagan's veto, several high profile companies divested in name only. IBM calmly announced that it had sold its South … 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, helped pressure the Apartheid government to embark on negotiations that …

… on 30 April 1976, students at Orlando West Junior School in Soweto went on strike and boycotted classes. The student … Secondary was among many student protests that erupted in Soweto, preceding the June 16 Soweto uprising. The … enforced. This was introduced in their schools by the apartheid government. The students drafted a memorandum to …

… Crisis of capitalism: The Great Depression in the USA and its wider impact in terms of the emergence of fascist economies and states …

… About 100 White sympathisers joined evicted Black squatters in a protest against the demolition of shanty dwellings … 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 settlement.  The Apartheid government then shifted its attention to destroying …

… 1994, Abdul Shariff a freelance photographer was shot in the back and killed while covering an African National … who were part of the visiting delegation. Shariff was born in Verulam, Natal and began fighting against apartheid from an early age. He was involved in the student …