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Address by ANC President, Nelson Mandela, to the International Solidarity Conference Johannesburg, 19 February 1993
… You refused to let the world ignore the tragedy wreaked by apartheid. And today you are here with us, many of you for … disease, poverty and violence; That…
EventFather Michael Lapsley, an Anglican priest, is injured by a letter-bomb
… it was his duty to speak out against the injustices of the Apartheid regime. In 1976, the Apartheid government exiled Father Lapsley for his … at: justice…
EventMandela signs SA Constitution into law
… and set in motion processes that laid the foundation for apartheid. On 21 March 1960 police opened fire on a crowd … This resulted in the negotiations for…
Statement by Oliver Tambo on the murder of Griffiths Mxenge, 01 November 1981
… years on Robben Island prison after being convicted by the apartheid courts on a charge of membership of the ANC after … his commitment to bring to an end…
WE HAVE THE KEY TO FREEDOM NOT THE OPPRESSOR, December 16, 1957
… Party that has plagued our country since 1948 with apartheid, a most deadly policy. Is it too much to hope that … of the crown against people and…
EventRand Daily Mail publishes exposé of conditions in Homelands
… Daily Mail became South Africa’s most influential anti-Apartheid newspaper, known for its courageous and liberal … audiences in the United Kingdom,…
EventMiriam Makeba returns to South Africa
… musical King Kong and was barred from returning when the apartheid government revoked her passport in 1960. During her … addressed the United Nations twice…
The Struggle Continues and Grows More Intense - Statement by O. R. Tambo, 23 August 1984
… Such a massive boycott could be a blow from which the apartheid regime may never recover. Let August the 28th be … for the destiny of their country. The…
EventChief Cyprian Zulu warns his people not to participate in the Defiance Campaign
… in the 1950s in response to the enactment of numerous apartheid laws by the South African government. During the … than 8 500 people were imprisoned for…
EventUDF organises boycott of Coloured and Indian parliamentry elections
… the United Democratic Front, an internal coalition of anti-apartheid groups, organised highly successful boycotts of the … http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages…
EventReverend David Russell sentenced for defying his banning order
… leaders were among the foremost and vocal opponents of the Apartheid regime. Acting out of conscience and under the … did not shield these individuals from…
EventBlack People Convention is formed
… welcomed it as an endorsement of racial segregation and apartheid policies. When the party assumed a radical anti apartheid political agenda the government…
EventFormer Prime Minister H.F. Verwoerd is born
… former South African prime minister and chief architect of apartheid was born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, to Willem … he gave indications of the…
EventNRP leader, Vause Raw announces that his party is ready to give the President’s Council a chance
… by the National Party (NP) in 1948, which then introduced Apartheid policy. He became the founding member and the … splintering after 1959 when MPs,…
EventDemonstrations begin outside the South African Embassy in Washington D.C.
… DC and continued on an almost daily basis as anti-apartheid protesters demanded a stronger anti-South Africa … went on to discuss violations of human rights…
Zulu Community
… the background. Source: Frescura Collection The pre-1994 apartheid system of homelands or 'Bantusans' denied Zulu … the Forbidden Quarters: Shacks in Durban…
SAHO Milestones
… Ghetto - Ways of Seeing in a South African City After Apartheid: Social Identities in the New South Africa Vol. 1 Edited by Abebe Zegeye (publication) After…
Address by His Excellency President Jacob Zuma on the celebration of Freedom Day, 27 April 2011, Union Buildings, Pretoria
… United Nations. We recall the pain caused by the legion of apartheid legislation that stripped away the dignity of … far enough away enough from white…
ArchiveAt the Pompidou by Jeremy Harding, 26 April 2018
… pretensions to a ‘European’ lifestyle in the era of apartheid. This tremendous body of work is now on view at the … to churches and public monuments, built…
Statement by Oliver Tambo on the struggle continues and grows more intense, 23 August 1984
… Such a massive boycott could be a blow from which the apartheid regime may never recover. Let August the 28th be … for the destiny of their country. The…
EventMinster of Justice, Pelser defends the banning orders on eight leaders of SASO
… independence and a robust argument for dismantling the Apartheid dispensation. These goals were contrary to the objectives of the Apartheid state that sought…
EventSA Olympic team leaves for Barcelona
… ban by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for its apartheid policy. At this time, the South African team was … Interim Olympic Flag of South Africa…
EventPretoria disputes compensation for Gaborone raid
… R25 million. A week earlier, during the conference, " Apartheid and Southern Africa: The West European response", … Conference (SADCC), claimed that South…
EventThe Azanian People’s Organisation (AZAPO) is founded after the government banned a host of BCM organisations in October 1977.
… of the 16 June 1976 Uprising, in Soweto, Johannesburg, the apartheid government banned all the organisations under the … and continued to propagate it in it…
Links & Partnerships
… and People General South African History Websites Anti-Apartheid and Southern Africa - Background . For those … to the international solidarity movement…
Address at the Welcome Ceremony of the World Summit on Sustainable Development, 25 August 2002
… For decades, you fought side by side with us to defeat the apartheid crime against humanity, which stood out as a … you, the peoples of the world took a…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1950-1959
… 1948, the National Party-led government began implementing apartheid by passing a series of racist laws, notably the … by launching the Defiance Campaign and…
ArticleThe co-optation of the African National Congress: South Africa’s original ‘State Capture’, Sampie Terreblanche
… and economic systems to address the inequalities of apartheid and create a genuine democratic South Africa.” But … the ANC operated on the moral high ground…
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 … African urban population. 1948…
PlaceMamelodi
… and the pain they endured after their forced removal by Apartheid from areas like Riverside, Eersterust, Marabastad, … resulted in them overcoming the…