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A group of individuals classified as white under the Population Registration Act, 1950 by successive ruling administrations of South Africa during the apartheid period (1948-1994), who held views that made them publicly oppose apartheid informally as citizen activists or as members of anti-apartheid organisations like the ANC.
South African women human rights activists (1 C, 4 P) C. South African civil rights activists (3 C, 31 P) D. South African disability rights activists (13 P) F.
Bantu Stephen Biko OMSG (18 December 1946 – 12 September 1977) was a South African anti-apartheid activist. Ideologically an African nationalist and African socialist, he was at the forefront of a grassroots anti-apartheid campaign known as the Black Consciousness Movement during the late 1960s and 1970s.
But as South Africans celebrate 30 years of democracy this week, many educators and activists believe that there is a crisis hollowing out the country’s education system – a crisis that ...
Public demonstrations have become common in South Africa as communities protest against the ruling African National Congress JOHANNESBURG (AP) — […] The post South Africa will mark 30 years of ...
A mandate over South-West Africa was conferred upon the United Kingdom, "for and on behalf of the government of the Union of South Africa", which was to handle administrative affairs under the supervision of the league. South-West Africa was classified as a "C" mandate, or a territory whose population sparseness, small size, remoteness, and ...
South Vietnam: monk, freedom of religion self-martyr Albert Lutuli: 1898 1967 South Africa: President of the African National Congress, [4] against apartheid in South Africa, [5] 1960 Nobel Peace Prize laureate [5] Edgar Nixon: 1899 1987 United States: Montgomery bus boycott organizer, civil rights activist Roy Wilkins: 1901 1981 United States
The organisation was renamed the "Anti-Apartheid Movement" and instead of just a consumer boycott, the group would now "co-ordinate all the anti-apartheid work and keep South Africa's apartheid policy in the forefront of British politics". [1] It also campaigned for the total isolation of apartheid South Africa, including economic sanctions.