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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…
PlaceStatue of President Paul Kruger, Pretoria
… between Plein and Pretorius Streets. Following the end of Apartheid in South Africa, there had been calls for the … from its location due to it being viewed…
Interview with Oliver Tambo to New African, 05 January 1980, London
… `obnoxious` to his fascist judge. The open threat of the apartheid regime to invade and occupy Zimbabwe in the event … of the Antarctic - all these are…
Unity in Action Decisive - O. R. Tambo Interviewed to New African, London, 1980
… 'obnoxious' to his fascist judge. The open threat of the apartheid regime to invade and occupy Zimbabwe in the event … of the Antarctic - all these are…
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…
Opening address by Albert Luthuli to Conference on Unemployment, Low Wages and Poverty, 21 October 1961, Durban
… One cannot exhaust nor adequately portray the ugliness of apartheid ills. Much could and should be said by the Conference on destructive apartheid policies…
150th Anniversary; Anxieties of Commemoration - Towards a National Dialogue by Omar Badsha and Jon Soske
… a heroic narrative of 'Indian contributions' to the anti-apartheid struggle and nation building. Concerned with the … sidestepping an open discussion on race…
Statement at the Ninth Extraordinary Session of the Council of Ministers of the Organisation of African Unity, Dar Es Salaam by O. R. Tambo, 7 – 10 April 1975
… facing Africa today. For the continued existence of the apartheid regime constitutes the principal obstacle to the … a common understanding of what the true…
Address by President Nelson Mandela of South Africa to the 49th session of the General Assembly New York, 3 October 1994
… will mark its 50th anniversary next year with the apartheid system having been vanquished and consigned to the … in which the UN engaged to ensure the…
ArticleGrey Street Complex timeline 1800-1999
… people into a powerful united front against Nationalist Apartheid policies continues. The fight against the Group Areas continues. “The campaign against…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 69th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1981
… and the destruction of the evil and degrading system of apartheid. This time last year we said that victory was … to find and implement ways of reducing…
Letter to Farzanah
… daily challenge of living with dignity and integrity in Apartheid South Africa, caused the Apartheid government to ban the book within a year of it …
EventDe Kock is convicted of six killings
… de Kock (dubbed 'Prime Evil') of six murders of Black anti-apartheid activists during his service as commander of a … by himself and his unit against the ANC…
EventFormer South African Prime Minister, P.W Botha, dies
… subpoena in 1998. The TRC was set up in 1996 to probe the Apartheid atrocities. Botha was implicated in human rights … the bombing of Khotso House, the…
EventEugene Terre Blanche, controversial leader of the AWB ( Afrikaner Resistance Movement), is born in Ventersdorp.
… before it became public. Terre'Blanche viewed the end of Apartheid in 1990 as the beginning of communism and … F.W. de Klerk with civil war. Following the…
Side By Side: The Autobiography of Helen Joseph
… most well-known South African women to campaign against apartheid. Her autobiography is being published on her 81st … the harsh laws, brutal repression and…
EventThomas Titus Nkobi is born
… to galvanize international public opinion against the apartheid government serving as the ANC's Chief … became the Treasurer General in 1977. After the fall…
ArticleList of SADF raids into Neigbouring Countries
… A Crime Against Humanity: analysing the repression of the apartheid state , Johannesburg: Human Rights Committee …
The Black Homeland Citizenship Act of 1970
… During Apartheid, starting from the late 1950s the South African … Boddy-Evans, A ., Apartheid Era Laws: Bantu Homelands Citizenship Act No 26 of …
The National Anthem
… meetings. It was sung as an act of defiance during the apartheid years. The first stanza is generally sung in Xhosa …
Grade 4 term 2 Timeline: Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela
… He says that the government must first put an end to apartheid 1988 He is admitted to Tygerberg Hospital where he …
Support our People until Power is Restored to Them - Statement at the Plenary Meeting of the United Nations General Assembly by O. R. Tambo, New York, 26 October 1976
… victory will not come easily. In the last four months, the apartheid regime has demonstrated to all who were ever in … to massacre the innocent. Terror is…