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”South Africa - Time of Challenge” - Report to the Plenary Session of the Central Committee of the South African Communist Party, October 1973
… an impressive basis for world-wide workers' action against apartheid. It united for the first time in many years all the … of the trade union movement,…
PlaceSea Point
… from being able to live openly as gay people. Oppressive legislation such as the sodomy law (banning sex between two … and it was renovated to accommodate…
ArchiveThe exilic geographies of the South by Benjamin N. Lawrance and Vusumuzi R. Kumalo
… Zimbabwean poet Toby Tafirenyika Moyana: “all repressive legislation” impeded artistic work. Others fled because they … and economically subjugated by…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the Johannesburg opening of the Anne Frank Exhibition at the Museum Africa Johannesburg, 15 August 1994
… Africa of today, as we emerge from the treacherous era of apartheid injustice. I think we will all agree that it is not … subjected to terrible privations,…
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission: A Reflection of the Chasm Between Constitutional Rights and the Lived Experience in South Africa by Rhiain Moses
… of the black population in South Africa during the apartheid regime. By identifying “inarticulacy”, or an … Waiting for the Barbarians (1980) as connected to…
Shared Cultural Trauma: Inarticulacy as Social Disability in South African Literature by Hannah Pagan
… of the black population in South Africa during the apartheid regime. By identifying “inarticulacy”, or an … Waiting for the Barbarians (1980) as connected to…
PlaceSacramento Cannon, Cape Recife
… in 1647. It was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 7 March 1986. Wording on English commemorative …
PlaceValkenburg Hospital, Observatory
… It was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 27 June 1986. Valkenberg Hospital is a …
PlaceNew Somerset Hospital, Beach Road, Green Point
… Africa. It was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 2 April 1971. New Somerset Hospital is a …
PlaceLeinster Hall, 7 Weltevreden Street, Gardens
… It was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 4 March 1983. Leinster Hall is now home to …
PlaceSt Saviours Church Anglican Church and Cemetery, Bowwood Road, Claremont
… 1953. It was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 31 December 1981. The Cemetery is next to and …
PlacePublic Library, Port Elizabeth
… It was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 7 December 1973. Reviewed 10 June 2016, …
PlaceCity Hall, Port Elizabeth
… It was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 29 November 1974. The Port Elizabeth City …
PlaceKitson the Steam Train, Krugersdorp
… and was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 29 April 1983. …
EventLondon hosts an international conference on the protection of the African elephant and rhinoceros
… and international conference was held to implement legislation to protect the African elephant and rhinoceros. …
PlaceHoward College Building and the Memorial Tower Building, University of Natal
… 1972. It was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 7 March 1986. …
ArticleA History of South African Literature, timeline 1824-2005
… all over the country. And it was the decade in which the apartheid state responded with massive treason trials for … a devastating picture of what it was…
Documents, speeches, Awards, and articles relating to Desmond Tutu
… Tutu, world renowned preacher and strident voice against apartheid, first Black Secretary General of the South African … award recognised his unifying role…
ArticleThe Homelands
… The Bantustans or homelands, established by the Apartheid Government, were areas to which the majority of the … system under the many laws and policies…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 76th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1988
… our region who have perished at the hands of the apartheid regime of terror. As a result of the murderous … of grief. Throughout our region, there are today…
Delegations and dialogue between ANC and internal non government groups
… government representatives, homeland representatives, anti apartheid movements and white business groupings particularly … and big businessmen, but also…
ArticleCuba and the struggle for democracy in South Africa
… ethos, and revolutionary Cuba was an early opponent of apartheid and racial segregation. It is no surprise to read … liberation was of a different sort from…
ArticleTruth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC)
… court-like body assembled in South Africa after the end of Apartheid. Anybody who felt they had been a victim of … to grant amnesty to those charged with…
The defiance campaign by M. P. Naicker
… Parliament had placed no less than seventy-five pieces of apartheid legislation on the Statute Book during this single session. … "The Nationalist Government…
Archive1996 - President Mandela, State of the Nation Address, 9 February 1996
… development of small and medium-sized businesses. Relevant legislation on these issues, as well as the critical question … notion that growth on its own can…
ArticleChanging Perceptions of Nelson Mandela
… Mandela was viewed as a major thorn in the side of the apartheid government, serving as Secretary General of the … At this time, Mandela was viewed as…
ArticleThe National Council of Trade Unions (NACTU)
… harbouring strong connections to the most popular anti-apartheid movements of the time. In 1987 to 1989 NACTU held several meetings with the ANC, the PAC…
Constitution of the Republic of South Africa Act 110 of 1983
… recommendations was limited because they did not question apartheid. When Botha came to power he created a … Party opposed the reforms believing they…
ArticleAftermath: Sharpeville Massacre 1960
… South Africa had already been harshly criticised for its apartheid policies, and this incident fuelled anti-apartheid sentiments as the international…
Background to the Freedom Charter 1955
… Nelson Mandela , Yusuf Dadoo and Walter Sisulu defied apartheid laws in Johannesburg and other major city centres. … sitting on benches marked for whites, or…