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EventAdriaan Vlok applies for amnesty
… Former apartheid era Minister of Law and Order, Adriaan Vlok, … headquarters in Johannesburg in 1987. He became the first apartheid minister to approach and…
EventDesmond Tutu is appointed TRC chairperson
… Anti-apartheid activist and Nobel laureate Archbishop Mpilo … took place and the rand plunged. At the end of apartheid, Tutu was appointed head of the Truth…
ArticleStaffrider magazine (1978-1993)
… Staffrider’s editorial policy was based on an anti-apartheid ethos. To this end Staffrider was nonracial, … from the South African Study Project of…
‘Ubuqaba’ and ‘UbuGqobhoka’: Reading Zakes Mda’s Heart of Redness through a Post-Developmental lens by Rachel Fenton
… complementary stance. Within the context of Post-Apartheid South Africa, Mda’s novel traces the diverging … Keywords: Zakes Mda, Progress, Post-Development,…
Art lost in a time of struggle by Mary Corrigall
… to, the Medu Art Ensemble, played a role in the anti-apartheid struggle movement, which means that this exhibition … drawings are poignant evocations of the…
ArticleBlack Consciousness and 16 June – The birth of a new generation
… instilled in the youth obviously agitated the Apartheid regime. The process leading up to the Soweto … themselves to the forefront of militant opposition to…
ArchiveClass Consciousness and Migrant Workers by David Hemson (University of Warwick)
… earlier sections came from archives of the colonial and apartheid period. That for later sections came from notes on … of times. The subject and themes were…
Statement by Oliver Tambo at a press conference in Addis Ababa, 11 July 1973
… Prisoners of apartheid July 11, 1973, marked the passage of ten years … to other restrictions for having opposed the policy of apartheid". Despite numerous…
Address by Oliver Tambo to the joint session of Parliament of Trinidad and Tobago, Port-of-Spain, 2 July 1987
… like Nelson Mandela, who are held in the prisons of apartheid. In inviting the African National Congress to … of the world have flowed the policies of…
EventThe Motsuenyane Commission finds the African National Congress (ANC) guilty of abuse in its camps
… Human rights abuses were common in South Africa during the apartheid era and the liberation struggle was aimed at bringing these abuses to an end. When…
EventThe United Democratic Front (UDF) is dissolved
… in August 1983, and was one of the most prominent anti-apartheid movements, comprising of over 400 workers', church, … National Congress (ANC) to strengthen…
Statement by Oliver Tambo at lunch hosted by the Foreign Minister of Venezuela, 13 July 1987, Caracas
… reform, and set in process a nationwide campaign to make apartheid unworkable. Many of the institutions used by the regime to administer apartheid have been…
Reflections on the 1973 Durban strikes by Steven Freedman
… working people and played an important role in defeating apartheid. First, the strikes triggered the formation of … Afrikaans instruction as the beginning of…
African National Congress Press Statement by O. R. Tambo, 5 November 1979
… the people to defeat the tyrannical measures which the apartheid regime imposes on us daily. More than at any other … such an outstanding feature in the…
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Special Focus: Wrangling between political groups - 1946
… have convened the meeting on Monday evening to welcome the UN decision. Mr. S.B. Mungal said that the officials of the …
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Report on Delegations, Publications and Organisations of the PRC
… meeting in New York in order to India delegation. When the UN General Assembly discussed the complaint of India against …
Le Rona Re Batho by Phyllis Naidoo - Introduction
… A story is told of Johnny Makathini (ANC Rep. at the UN/ who died in exile). Entering Heathrow with a name other …
Canon Collins Memorial Lecture by Oliver Tambo, 28 May 1987, London
… a dependable ally in the struggle to abolish the system of apartheid. Yet, such was the durability of his good works … as it then was, but more, to…
Forward to Mass Action for People's Power! Message of the National Executive Committee of the ANC on the 77th Anniversary of the ANC by O. R. Tambo, 8 January 1989
… Whatever its capacity for repression and death, the apartheid regime continued to suffer reverses both within … regime. The contingent of world forces…
ArchiveA critical look at the role of the Muslim Judicial Council in the struggle for liberation in South Africa from 1960 to 1994
… the Muslim Judicial Council (MJC) in the struggle against apartheid in South Africa. It will firstly place the study in … A section on the MJC's involvement…
EventArchbishop Owen Cardinal McCann becomes South Africa’s first cardinal.
… Church Archbishop of Cape Town, Owen McCann, an enemy of Apartheid, became South Africa's first Cardinal when he was … South African Catholic Church began…
EventOAU Council of Ministers decide to reject dialogue with South Africa
… rejected. This was due to the fact that they believed the apartheid regime of South Africa was attempting to "divide … ostracized by the international…
"Peace and Development in our Region" Speech at "War on Want" Conference by O. R. Tambo, London, June 1988
… supporters of our cause, firm allies against racism, apartheid and war, on whom we can depend regardless of what … concern and involvement in the struggle to…
ArticleDebating Stellenbosch University’s Language Policy
… the National Party to oppress black South Africans during Apartheid. This article will not only discuss the … as a “White man’s language”, as it was promoted…
EventSA judge jails former state assassin Eugene de Kock for more than 200 years
… During the Apartheid regime, Eugene de Kock was a colonel in the South … functioned as a para-military squad, either executing anti-apartheid activists or…
EventFreedom Day is celebrated in South Africa
… long period of colonialism and White minority domination (apartheid). Apartheid 'officially' began in South Africa in 1948, but … a stalemate between the…
ArticlePlacing the film “Inxeba – The Wound” in Historical Review
… of people like Robert Mugabe saying that homosexuality was un-African—a Western decadence, that it was against …
ArticleThembisile Chris Hani Timeline 1942 - 2003
… 1973 Member of the ANC delegation to the United Nations (UN)/Organisation of African Unity (OAU)Southern Africa …
Address to the International Labour Conference Geneva, 8 June 1990
… your commitment to the struggle to end the evil system of apartheid. We bring you the greetings of the National … that in the end it would prove impossible…
Address by Oliver Tambo at the 75th anniversary meeting of the African National Congress, 08 January 1987, Lusaka
… to this very hour, Today, as the struggle against the apartheid system grows more intense, more extensive and more … is how soon and at what cost we shall…