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It was an apartheid law in South Africa that prohibited marriages between people of different races.
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This act authorized the forcible removal of squatting communities.
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The 1953 Bantu Education Act was one of apartheid's most offensively racist laws. It brought African education under control of the government and extended apartheid to black schools.
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On 5 October 1960 a referendum of White voters was held to decide whether South Africa should become a republic.
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Umkhonto weSizwe as it was more commonly known, was launched on the 16th December 1961. On the same day in 1838, the Afrikaners had defeated the Zulus at the Battle of the Blood River and it was perhaps significant that the armed struggle was launched on this particular day, more than one hundred years later.
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Was a political party in South Africa founded in 1915 and first became the governing party of the country in 1924.
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Life imitated art in early 1980 when South African school children, fed up with an inferior apartheid-era education system, took to chanting the lyrics of Pink Floyd‘s “Another Brick in the Wall.” The song, with its memorable line stating, “We don’t need no education,”.
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The first branches of what later became the United Democratic Front were formed in May 1983 in the Transvaal, Cape Province and Natal.
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Twenty thousand black miners were fired Monday at three of South Africa's largest platinum mines, and 10,000 more were threatened with dismissal today if they continue a strike begun a week ago.
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The battle of Cuito Cuanavale and the Cuban intervention in Angola is one of the turning points in Southern African History. It led to the movement of powerful Cuban armed force, into the west, towards the Namibian border.
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The People’s Republic of China’s relationship with South Africa has deepened significantly in recent years, as shown by a raft of economic and political proclamations.
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The first leader of the National Party became Prime Minister as part of the PACT government in 1924. The NP was the governing party of South Africa from 1948 until 1994, and was disbanded in 2005. Its policies included apartheid.
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The EU-South African relationship has significantly developed since the end of the Apartheid. A comprehensive political partnership exists, of which one important pillar is the Trade, Development and Co-operation Agreement
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She died after spending 13 days in a coma in the hospital
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These machines that they used start firing mysteriously on their own sometimes. This software glitch led to an antiaircraft cannon malfunction that killed nine soldiers.
