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BiographyShaleen Surtie-Richards
… Surtie-Richards had to contend with serious health issues throughout her later years, such as diabetes, heart …
BiographyStella Nyanzi
… led to her subsequent imprisonment in 2017 and has brought issues of freedom of speech and political oppression to the …
Biography of Mtutuzeli Dudu Pukwana by Nick Mencia
… Due to rising political oppression imposed by the Apartheid regime, Pukwana was forced to flee to Europe. While … residents from developed areas to racially…
The Afrikaanse Handelsinsituut
… to become a dominant political and economic force in apartheid South Africa. The AHI began as an alliance between … influential in government circles than…
ArticleWorkshop ‘71
… theatre aimed at engaging with South African social issues prevalent during the time. The first production of … remained in the USA in exile. Functioning in…
Biography of Eli Weinberg by Karen Folz
… Eli Weinberg were heavily involved in the country’s anti-apartheid movement and faced exile as a result; other Jews … and Apartheid Eli Weinberg was born in…
BiographyEugène Ney Terre’Blanche
… the antichrist", he said. Terre'Blanche viewed the end of apartheid as surrendering to communism. He threatened full … of the SABC television series…
ArticleUnited Democratic Front (UDF)
… The United Democratic Front (UDF) was an anti-apartheid body that incorporated many anti-apartheid organisations. It was launched in 1983, in … amid…
Introduction - My Spirit Is Not Banned by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner
… 1912 there was a growing black population moving to "the urban areas, seeking waged employment in the white-controlled … report: 'The women have been active…
EventJudgement is handed down in a landmark case
… Board (ERAB), granting him the right to permanent urban status. The ruling was likely to affect about 150, 000 Black contract workers in urban areas, who…
Rocky Malebane-Metsing
… But he was more involved in the activities of the Anti-Apartheid Movement than in his studies, which he completed. …
Thayanayagie (Thailema) Pillay
… African Indian Council , a puppet body created by the Apartheid regime,and the imposition of the a new racist …
BiographyDora Taylor
… there was a possibility that she would be arrested by the Apartheid government. Thus, she never came back to South …
BiographyThabo Marcus Motaung
… as there were extenuating circumstances, but the Apartheid government had proceeded with the execution … Thelle Mogoerane, Jerry Mosololi and Marcus Motaung,…
BiographyEpainette Nomaka Mbeki
… the Eastern Cape and her commitment to the fight against apartheid.” At the age of 96, MaMbeki still works a full day …
BiographyDenis Mayer
… his dinner companions when he attacked those who defended Apartheid or expressed racist views. He married Jane Eason in …
BiographyKgosi Abram Ramotshere Moiloa
… a couple of years. Conflict between the Hurutshe and the apartheid state came into the open in the early 1950s when … the book, Forgotten People - Political…
BiographyMadhlangala Dukuza Ndabezitha
… was to preserve and protect his remains from the notorious Apartheid regime’s bitterness towards him while still alive. …
BiographyVuyani Mabaxa
… upon the community. The ‘third force’ was a part of the apartheid regimes attempt to destabilise the community. On 13 …
BiographyJames Madhlope Phillips
… The funeral was attended by the Congress members, anti-apartheid activists, Communists, Labour Party members, …
Jafta Kgalabi Masemola
… Masemola for dedicating his life to the struggle against apartheid and standing for the ideals of a free, just and …
BiographyJoseph Alfers
… Webster was tragically assassinated by an operative of the Apartheid regime. In 1997, Alfers moved to Rhodes University …
Voters may act if ANC fails to uproot patronage by Steven Friedman (BDlive), 10 August 2016
… EITHER city voters will get the ANC leadership they want by 2019, or … at least for a while, if the ANC is to be the party of the urban marketplace or of the…
ArticleThe banning of the South African Students Organisation (SASO) and student politics in the 1980s
… In September and October 1977, the apartheid government stiffened its resolve to end the … It was only in 1986, when unrest had spread to nearly all urban…
ArticleA decade by decade events account of the women’s struggle in South Africa
… agency for Black women. Maxeke becomes involved in many issues affecting Blacks in her time, from campaigning against … is so as to decrease prostitution and…
ArticleCensus in South Africa
… the interval period was extended to 10 years. The post-Apartheid Government held its first population census in … 1991, 1996 and 2001. However, information…
BiographyMhlabunzima Maphumulo
… In 1986, as tensions rose in the region because of various apartheid measures and conflict affected most of the region, … One Vote’: The Revival of…
BiographyMakholeka Matthews Meyiwa
… Gwala , and became active in the trade union and anti-apartheid movement during the 1950s. After the formation of … Meyiwa played a prominent role in the…
BiographyOupa Ronald Madondo
… killed by a bomb attached to his body and detonated by the apartheid secret security operatives. It was further …
BiographyDavid Moiloa
… was defined so widely as to include anyone who opposed apartheid rule. On 27 February 1958, Moiloa was served with … the book, Forgotten People - Political…