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EventChief Albert Luthuli, Nobel Peace Prize winner and former President of the ANC, is killed in Groutville
… close to the home that he had been confined to by the Apartheid regime in Groutville, (then) Stanger, … and defiance brought him into direct conflict with…
EventAbolition of Internal Security Act
… This measure had been one of the most hated pieces of apartheid legislation and had been used against tens of thousands of anti-apartheid protesters. The…
EventAt least 150 people die in clashes between the ANC and IFP
… two years in 1987. Most violent action was directed at the apartheid government, but soon spread between residents of … for the violence as it was later…
EventPolice break up demonstrations against South African rebel Cricket Tour
… of South Africa by the English Cricket team. Angry anti apartheid demonstrators including the African National … who went on the tour received financial…
EventBlacks boycott municipal elections
… of Black electorates followed the repeated call of anti-apartheid forces and largely boycotted the elections, with … as a manoeuvre to further entrench White…
EventPW Botha gives the “Rubicon” Speech in Durban
… to consider immediate and major reforms in the country's apartheid system. This meant the abolishing of the apartheid system. In a speech that had been…
PlaceQueens Fort Military Museum, Bloemfontein
… all major military conflicts from 1820, including the apartheid struggle. The Queen’s Fort Military Museum, in … War, World War I, World War II and the…
EventP.W. Botha, former South African State President, appears in court for refusing to testify at the TRC
… contained details of his involvement in the gruesome apartheid killings of black freedom fighters allegedly arranged by the apartheid regime. Botha was asked…
Introduction of A Crime Against Humanity
… A Crime Against Humanity - Analysing the Repression of the Apartheid State edited by Max Coleman This is a book about … specifically, it is a book about the…
ArchiveThe exilic geographies of the South by Benjamin N. Lawrance and Vusumuzi R. Kumalo
… and economically subjugated by European imperialism and apartheid, Douglas Buti, the author of Familiarity Is the … part of a wave of South African writers…
ArchiveJakes Gerwel: The epitome of integrity and courage by Niren Tolsi, 30 November 2012
… transform the University of the Western Cape (UWC) from an apartheid "bush university" into the "intellectual home of … (an Afrikaner nationalist…
South Africa’s armed struggle: where the ANC’s ineptitude was a virtue by Howard Barrell (The Conversation), 10 July 2016, University of Pretoria
… the political imagination to reach an accommodation with apartheid’s masters who were, militarily, more powerful than … inside the country that were most…
Speech by Oliver Tambo on behalf of the Liberation Movements, at the twenty-third session of the assembly of Heads of State and Government of the Organisation of African Unity, 27 July 1987, Addis Ababa
… that there can be no peace in southern Africa until the apartheid system is destroyed and uprooted in its entirety. … to be engaged precisely in this…
Appendix 1: Freedom Fighters On The March: A Message From Dr. Y. M. Dadoo To The Indian People
… Indian people Brothers and Sisters The struggle against apartheid and for Freedom has entered a newdecisive phase. … Coloured people, has hadenough of racial…
ArchiveWinnie Madikizela-Mandela: Revolutionary who kept the Spirit of Resistance alive by Shireen Hassim (The Conversation), 3 April 2018
… see more clearly the violence wrought by colonialism and apartheid, the profound consequences of fraternal political … and betrayal, she stood firm in her…
Document 29 - Kenneth Hendrickse, “The Opposition in Congress”, The Citizen 3, 3, 4 March 1958
… It is multi-racialism - a gratuitous concession apartheid - which is at the root of all other evils in … serves only one purpose: to conserve and entrench…
ArchiveChapter 4 Political activity 1950-1963 by Denis Goldberg
… laws and if we could detach whites from supporting the apartheid system we would help the process of liberation from … passive response to segregation, now…
EventGeneral J.C. Smuts (80), former prime minister of SA, dies
… and Smuts with them, in effect considered the policy of apartheid or total segregation altogether impractical. In … a policy steering a middle course between…
EventDue to insufficient evidence South African police are cleared of charges with regards to the death of Steve Biko
… Steve Biko, who died at the hands of apartheid security police on September 12, 1977, is widely seen as the greatest martyr of the anti-apartheid movement. …
SACTU press release in ‘New Age’, 22 November 1962
… arrested] people in their homes or flats he will make Apartheid workable and just? Does he think that the non-White … 'marked' by a member of the Special…
EventLanga, Uitenhage Massacre: 20 killed by police on Sharpeville Commemoration Day
… the massacre is not as widely remembered today as other apartheid atrocities, such as those at Sharpeville and … the country. By July the tensions had grown…
EventThe South African Government passes the Group Areas Act
… Apartheid as a system was obsessed with separating the … South Africans lived side by side. On 27 April 1950, the Apartheid government passed the Group…
EventGriffiths Mxenge is murdered
… Mxenge , an African National Congress (ANC) veteran and apartheid activist, was assassinated and his body was … David Tshikalanga. All were policemen and…
EventSADF takes over security of Northern Natal from the SAP to prevent infiltration into SA by Liberation Movements
… state of security that marked the eighties convinced the Apartheid government that a revision of its approach to … a policing capacity was however not a new…
EventDaily Dispatch editor, Donald Woods, arrives in Britain with his family
… and Botswana. Woods was prosecuted seven times under the apartheid government's publication laws and sentenced to jail … he wrote eight books and campaigned…
EventHelen Suzman is born
… Politician and Anti-Apartheid activist, Helen Suzman , was born in Germiston, … have awarded her honorary doctorates. Her struggle against apartheid won her…
EventFour ANC members killed in an ambush near Piet Retief, eastern Transvaal
… the Swaziland border into South Africa. The four anti –Apartheid activists believed they were about to come back to … In connection to the incident Eugene de…
EventBlacks in South Africa protest against segregation
… campaign that protested against the unjust laws of the apartheid regime. The campaign of defiance against unjust … 26 June and took the form of large-scale…
EventState of Emergency follows Sharpeville massacre
… The government proceeded with the introduction of apartheid laws in the 1950s. An example of this was the hated … Click here to read United Nations documents…
Letter by Oliver Tambo to the OAU Secretary-General, Mr. William Eteki Mboumoua, 01 June 1974
… the question of the destruction of the criminal system of apartheid in South Africa and the liberation of our oppressed … the world, who are threatened by…