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ArticleTimeline — Land Dispossession and Restitution in South Africa - 1995-2013
… state land and begin building shacks in Bredell, a peri-urban area near Johannesburg . ‘Red Ants’ evict people from … 10 July, The South African Council of…
Culture in the New South Africa by Robert Kriger and Abebe Zegeye
… One of the many issues confronting post – apartheid South Africa is that the cultural expression of its …
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…
ArticleSouth African Students Movement (SASM)
… that it led to the most sustained period of resistance to apartheid since the period before the banning of the African … existence with the objective of…
TCOE Online Exhibition
… build solidarity and deepen the understanding between urban and rural South Africans around the need for redress …
Schlebusch Commission
… which would prepare the way for a revolution in which the urban Bantu workers would have to take the lead’. As a …
ArticleAnti-South African Indian Council (SAIC) Campaign
… run by Minister WA Maree. The department dealt mainly with issues related to immigration, registration, and the movement of Indians between provinces. Anti…
EventGeneral J.C. Smuts (80), former prime minister of SA, dies
… WW II in August 1946, to investigate laws relating to urban Blacks, pass laws, and the socio-economic circumstances … and Smuts with them, in effect…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1930-1939
… this are to decrease prostitution and illegal brewing in urban areas. The African National Congress (ANC) … Winnie Madikizela-Mandela , lifetime opponent of…
Address by Deputy President Thabo MBeki at the Conference on Infrastructure Investment, 28-29 March 1996
… the private sector have taken place on a broad range of issues - the Labour Relations Act, the tariff and trade … that to deliver municipal services to…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1930s
… this are to decrease prostitution and illegal brewing in urban areas. Minister of Justice, Oswald Pirow pilots the … the Women's section of the Communist…
The Broederbond by Norman Levy
… the point where under the National Party the ideology of apartheid had become the official vision. It was part of the … the founders of the Broederbond were…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1950s
… calls for a broad anti-nationalist front to oppose anti-apartheid laws such as the Group Areas Act . May, Sam Kahn … of ANC Youth League. 30 August, Chief…
ArticleThe 1956 Women’s March, Pretoria, 9 August
… sent Helen Joseph and Bertha Mashaba on a tour of the main urban areas, accompanied by Robert Resha of the ANC and … in the Orange Free State declared that…
ADDRESS BY PRESIDENT NELSON MANDELA ON RECEIVING THE FREEDOM OF PIETERMARITZBURG Pietermaritzburg, 25 April 1997
… I feel deeply honoured to be awarded the Freedom of the City of Pietermaritzburg. For me personally this city has … in building democracy, peace and unity…
Women’s Food Committees in Cape Town during the 1940s
… committees in the Western Cape , protests over subsistence issues and food supply escalated into demands for popular … Zihlangu identifies a successful…
ArticleRight to Organise Timeline 1500-1994
… in 1946 reputed to have been a key factor in the coming of Apartheid. 1932-1947 Africans were not allowed to work in the … to provide low cost houses for the…
PlaceMamelodi
… to reside in this historic township in the East of the City of Tshwane, the terrible experience of African people … and the pain they endured after their…
ArticleThe Azania Liberation Support Committee and its publications by Allison Drew
… political cartoonist who conceived the British Anti-Apartheid Movement logo – designed the publications’ Robben … logo on the publications’ mastheads and…
Glossary: Kingdoms of southern Africa: Mapungubwe, Thulamela and Great Zimbabwe
… piece of music, etc. before it has been printed Mecca : a city in Saudi Arabia that is the holiest city of Islam, being the place where the Prophet Muhammad…
ArticleKey terms with definitions for this topic
… piece of music, etc. before it has been printed Mecca: a city in Saudi Arabia that is the holiest city of Islam, being the place where the Prophet Muhammad…
BiographyRonnie Govender (Sathiseelan Gurulingam Govender)
… Lahnee’s Pleasure was based on characters in a hotel in apartheid South Africa. It was one of South Africa’s longest …
BiographyAugust Aime Balkema
… to Balkema. In 1958 he published the first Afrikaans anti-apartheid novel, Jan Rabie's Ons, die A/god - a book that …
BiographyMary Moodley
… that her funeral was an act of defiance against the apartheid regime. Her coffin was draped with the ANC flag and …
BiographyAmina Cachalia
… Indians, like Amina, were opposed to this new form of apartheid and Anti-SAIC committees were formed to fight the …
BiographyJeanette Eleanor Kasrils
… international community of the plight of children under apartheid. The booklet was published on 16 June, in …
BiographyDavid Wilcox Bopape
… Kotane and John Beaver Marks and again ordered by the apartheid government to resign from the ANC and CPSA. But his …
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 … We are 15 years into our…
EventSouth African Air Force bombs ANC in Maputo
… ANC bases in a suburb of Maputo, Mozambique's capital city, were bombed in retaliation on 23 May 1983. This action boosted the apartheid government's…
ArticleAfrapix Chronology 1981-1991
… international pressure to initiate political reform. The Apartheid government accelerated its homeland policy and the … TIC (Transvaal Indian Congress) held…