Zimbabwe Independence Day On this day in 1980, Southern-Rhodesia gained independence from the British, taking the name ...
The Coloured schools' boycott began as a result of students' dissatisfaction with the South African educational and poli...
During the National Party rally in Ladysmith, Natal, Prime Minister P.W. Botha assured his party supporters that the pro...
Several people were killed in Operation Beanbag, an attack by the South African army on the planning and control headqua...
Ciskei becomes the fourth Black homeland to be granted 'independence' by the South African Government. Chief Lennox Sebe...
The Swaziland government welcomed South Africa's offer to hand over parts of KaNgwane and KwaZulu to Swaziland, since, i...
Three African National Congress members, Telle Simon Mogoerane, Jerry Semano Mosololi, and Marcus Thabo Motaung, were se...
Barbara Hogan is sentenced in the Rand Supreme Court to an effective ten years in prison for high treason and membership...
The eighties in South Africa heralded a time of increased resistance against the Apartheid regime. The liberation moveme...
President Samora Machel of Mozambique and Prime Minister PW Botha of South Africa signed the Nkomati Accord, a non-aggre...
Dorothy Nyembe, a prominent political activist in KwaZulu-Natal who participated in many political demonstrations agains...
On 3 September 1984, Members of Parliament convened in Cape Town to promulgate a new South African Constitution with a t...
Archbishop Mpilo Desmond Tutu, world renowned preacher and strident voice against apartheid, first Black Secretary Gener...
In January, Senator Edward Kennedy of the United States visited South Africa to show his anti-apartheid support to the S...
British pop star, David Essex, claims he is quoted out-of-context about his return to South Africa to perform to a racia...
On the night of 15 August 1985, South Africa's President P. W. Botha delivered the infamous "Rubicon" Speech in Durban. ...
The six frontline states of Angola , Botswana , Mozambique , Tanzania , Zambia and Zimbabwe called on the South African...
The trial of Reginald Sefatsa, Reid Mokoena, Moses Diniso, Theresa Ramashamole, Duma Khumalo and Francis Mokhesi, better...
Bishop Desmond Tutu of the Anglican Church, and Father Smangaliso Mkhatshwa of the Catholic Church, held a morning-to-su...
On 15 January 1986, General Justin Lekhanya, the Head of the Lesotho Army, ousted Lesotho prime minister Chief Leabua Jo...
The South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU), the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) and the African ...
The South African Police (SAP) and the South African Defence Force (SADF) ambushed and killed six alleged Umkhonto weSiz...
Jean Van der Poel was a historian and teacher who played an important role in the South African Teachers' Association an...
This day in history, an armed mob and riot police disrupted a rally organised by the South West African Political Organi...
The body of Eric Mntonga, co-director of the Institute for a Democratic Alternative for South Africa (IDASA) in the bord...
Chris Hani, freedom fighter, political activist and at the time Deputy Commander of uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) in Zambia, was...
Despite visible resistance to incorporation into the Qwa Qwa homeland, the South African government proceeded with its p...
The Citizen newspaper reported that Minister Chris Heunis, minister of constitutional development and planning and Chief...
Alan Paton is one of South Africa's most celebrated authors. His most renowned novel 'Cry, the Beloved Country', which w...
A dissatisfied faction of the Bophuthatswana Defence Force and some members of the National Executive Committee of the P...
On 11 July 1988, Duma Khumalo, Oupa "Scotch" Diniso, Ja-ja Sefatsa, Theresa Ramashamola, Francis Mokhesi and Reid Mokoen...
The town councils of Vosloorus and Reiger Park staged a consumer boycott in Boksburg on the East Rand (now Ekurhuleni mu...
An incident occurred in December 1988 which shocked the nation and forever changed the lives of the close-knit community...
The agreement was the culmination of months of intense diplomatic efforts brokered by the United States. South African P...
On 8 April 1989, the Progressive Federal Party, Independent Party, the National Democratic Movement and the Fourth Force...
After the release of Walter Sisulu, Raymond Mhlaba of the African National Congress (ANC) and Ahmed Kathrada of the Tran...
On this day, Nelson Mandela was released unconditionally from prison after 27 years. Accompanied by his then-wife Winnie...
In 1990, at the opening of parliament, former state president F.W De Klerk made an unanticipated and startling statement...
A curfew, which was imposed in the independent Venda homeland as a result of the deposition of the unpopular Frank Ravhe...
Adelaide Tambo became politically active after her grandfather's arrest at the age of ten. While she attended high schoo...
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