A nationwide emergency targets anti-apartheid organizing

Dominant-caste attackers killed six Dalit men in Karamchedu, Andhra Pradesh, amid a conflict rooted in caste power and control of everyday resources. The violence and the struggle for accountability...

Title deeds to Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park were returned to Aṉangu Traditional Owners after a long campaign. The handback recognized their relationship to Country and provided for joint...

The Congress of South African Trade Unions was launched in Durban after years of negotiations among unions. The federation linked workers' demands with opposition to apartheid and a commitment to a...

The first federal observance followed years of organizing by Coretta Scott King, civil-rights groups, trade unionists and supporters. Making King's memory part of the national calendar challenged...

COSATU called a stay-away demanding recognition of May Day as a paid public holiday. Workers and community allies made the centenary of international May Day a major demonstration of collective power....

Congress completed its override of President Ronald Reagan's veto, bringing sanctions against South Africa into law. The measure restricted important economic relationships sustaining apartheid. It...

Malik Oussekine died after police beat him in the early hours of 6 December, during repression surrounding student protests. His death became a focus of public opposition to police violence. A...

White attackers assaulted three Black men in Howard Beach, Queens. Michael Griffith died after fleeing onto a highway and being struck by a vehicle. The attack became a focus of protest and demands...

A conference running from 9 to 12 July brought an ANC delegation together with mainly Afrikaans-speaking South Africans. Organized through IDASA, the encounter challenged the apartheid state's...

The Māori Language Act came into force, recognizing te reo Māori as an official language, providing a right to use it in specified legal proceedings and establishing a language commission. Māori...