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BiographyArthur Nuthall Fula
… a language that was synonymous with the oppressors during apartheid South Africa. Furthermore, his choosing of …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Polokwane an Overview
… the coming of democracy in 1994, the town exploded into a city with a population of some half a million people. Today it has become a regional centre, the…
PlaceBo-Kaap, Cape Town
… upgrade. (LINK PROVIDED IN FURTHER READING) Cape Town is a city built on layers of history and landscape. Beyond its … and down to the sea. These stairways…
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…
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 …
BiographyDavid Wilcox Bopape
… Kotane and John Beaver Marks and again ordered by the apartheid government to resign from the ANC and CPSA. But his …
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 …
Interview with Oliver Tambo to Newsweek, 01 August 1980
… bank. Does this mean that South Africa faces an escalating urban guerrilla-warfare programme by the African National … Q : You have probably read about the…
EventThe Star Condemns Forced Removals In Sophiatown
… Johannesburg, to Soweto, located on the outskirts of the city. This forced removal was part of the government's countrywide apartheid plan to turn the…
Address by Oliver Tambo at the opening session of the ANC Conference, Arusha, 1 December 1987
… people must surely be. They are relevant also because apartheid means poverty and war, because this criminal system … Ahmed Salim, and all of us, your guests…
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…