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  2. Internal resistance to apartheid - Wikipedia

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    Through the 1970s and 1980s Schwarz was amongst the most forthright and effective campaigners against apartheid in Parliament who was feared by many National Party ministers. Helen Zille, a white anti-apartheid activist, exposed a police cover-up regarding the death of Black Consciousness founder Steve Biko as a reporter for the Rand Daily Mail.

  3. United Democratic Front (South Africa) - Wikipedia

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    The apartheid state wrote a new constitution in 1983 "in an attempt to allay criticism against apartheid and to set a new course." [4] The new form of government created a Tricameral Parliament which allowed Coloured and Asian South Africans "nominal representation." [5] Black people were still not allowed to participate in the government. [4] [5]

  4. Congress of the People (1955) - Wikipedia

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    The Congress of the People, consisting of around 3,000 people, gathered in Kliptown, part of Soweto (a large township outside Johannesburg) on 26 June 1955 in a field surrounded by chicken-wire to give it a lawful claim of being a private gathering, [5] [6] so that it was not prevented from assembling by the South African government. [5]

  5. John Harris (activist) - Wikipedia

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    Frederick John Harris (4 July 1937 – 1 April 1965) was a South African schoolteacher and anti-apartheid campaigner who turned to terrorism and was executed after a bomb attack on a railway station. He was Chairman of SANROC (the South African Non Racial Olympic Committee), which in 1964 petitioned the International Olympic Committee to have ...

  6. Kairos Document - Wikipedia

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    The Apartheid State is not capable of true reform; any reforms will have to be facile only since they are designed to ensure the survival of the white minority government. [24] "A regime that has made itself the enemy of the people has thereby also made itself the enemy of God," even though at the level of the individual, people in government ...

  7. It's 30 years since apartheid ended. South Africa's ... - AOL

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    The ANC has been in power ever since the first democratic, all-race election of April 27, 1994, the vote that officially ended apartheid. It's 30 years since apartheid ended. South Africa's ...

  8. Nelson Mandela, Divestment, and the End of Apartheid - AOL

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    Campaign against Apartheid College students launched the movement against Apartheid in 1977, and it became a force to reckon with by the early '80s. Their campaign specifically advocated for ...

  9. Vaal uprising - Wikipedia

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    The Vaal uprising was a period of popular revolt in black townships in apartheid South Africa, beginning in the Vaal Triangle on 3 September 1984. Sometimes known as the township revolt and driven both by local grievances and by opposition to apartheid, the uprising lasted two years and affected most regions of the country.