The architects of Apartheid. © Apartheid Museum Archive. In 1948, the National Party (NP), representing Afrikaners, won the national election on a platform of racism and segregation under the slogan of ‘apartheid’. Apartheid built upon…
Introduction 1985, Desmond Tutu, armed only with the bible under his arm, confronts the SA forces during their attempts to break up a demonstration. Photograph by Shadrack Nkomo © Bailey’s African History Archive. Numerous factors…
1960-1994: Armed Struggle and Popular Resistance 1984-1990:- The people armed Introduction 1985, Desmond Tutu, armed only with the bible under his arm, confronts the SA forces during their attempts to break up a demonstration….
The year of 1985 signalled the beginning of the end of apartheid society and governance in South Africa. Following an upsurge of violent and non-violent resistance to the racially-exclusive system of apartheid – which had…
South Africa enters the War General Smuts signing the agreement at the first meeting of the UN General Assembly. Source: P. Joyce (2000), Suid-Afrika in die 20ste eeu Kaapstad: Struik, p.107. In September 1939, World…
An image of Jan Van Riebeeck and the local San people, © cybercapetown.com Several factors seemed to pave the way to apartheid, among them ─ colonial conquest, land dispossession, economic impoverishment, and exclusion from citizenship…
Solomon Plaajte was part of the deputation to London in 1914 to protest the land act, the pamphlet above was an advert for Plaatje’s address to the New England P.S.A on 18 July 1915. ©…
Introduction Sharpeville shortly after the shootings © Museum Africa. The 1960s marked an important watershed in South Africa’s struggle against apartheid. The aftermath of the Sharpeville Massacre, in 1960, signalled the beginning of a far…
Scanned in copy of the last page of the Treaty of Vereeniging, click to enlarge and view other pages Industrialization and British imperialism in South Africa, driven by economic and political ambitions, and the individual…
On 21 July 1985 the government declared a State of Emergency in 36 magisterial districts in the Eastern Cape and PWV (now Gauteng) areas. This was the first State of Emergency since 1960, and gave…
