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ArchiveInterview with Potlako Kitchener Leballo
… he was responsible for much of the PAC's success before Sharpeville, as well as for most of its failings in the …
EventCalvin Thusago is stabbed to death
… youths as he and a colleague were on their way back from Sharpeville where they had filmed the desecration of Black …
ArticleInternational Rugby World Cup Timeline 1983-2011
… tour of South Africa, which occurred shortly after the Sharpeville Massacre, attracted strong international …
ArchiveSouth Africa’s Marikana 10 years on: survey shows knowledge of massacre is low, by Benjamin Roberts, Jare Struwig and Steven Gordon (theconversation.com), 16 August 2022
… Movement (2015/16), the 1976 Soweto Uprising, and the Sharpeville massacre (1960). The results show that awareness … education was marginally lower…
EventRobert Sobukwe is sentenced to three years' imprisonment
… March 1960, the same day a similar protest took place in Sharpeville, to hand over their passes to police officers, …
ArticlePan Africanist Congress timeline 1959-2011
… joins the PAC in Atterdgeville aged 16 just after the Sharpeville Massacre. March, Nana Mohomo and Peter Molotski … anti pass march and local PAC leaders…
ArticleLiberation history Timeline 1960-1969
… of both the ANC and the PAC in the aftermath of the Sharpeville Massacre. In response to the banning, both … against pass laws, starting on 21 March. 21…
EventNigeria imposes sanctions on South Africa, and implements a total trade boycott
… in the international community - especially after the Sharpeville Massacre in 1960. …
EventInaugural Conference of the South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU)
… trade union wing of the ANC led Congress Alliance. After Sharpeville most of the office bearers of SACTU went into …
EventNew SA Constitution takes effect
… 4 December 1996 and signed by President Nelson Mandela in Sharpeville, Gauteng on 10 December 1996. Among the laws …
EventO. R. Tambo leaves South Africa for exile
… Oliver Reginald Tambo left South Africa shortly after the Sharpeville massacre , on the instruction of the African …
Event18,000 people have been detained since the declaration of the State of Emergency in March
… Emergency was proclaimed on 30 March 1960, following the Sharpeville killings that left 69 unarmed people dead and … South African History Online, ‘State of…
ArchiveAfrica South Vol.4 No.4 Jul-Sept 1960
… IN EXILE Contents: Sunshine and Sharpeville. Cartoon, David Marais. The Nineteen Days, anon. …
EventFifteen African states tabled a draft resolution at the UN denouncing racial discrimination
… fire and killed 69 people at a peaceful demonstration in Sharpeville, South Africa. Proclaiming the Day in 1966, the …
EventUN and OAU take a stand against Apartheid policy
… actions of the South African government in the wake of the Sharpeville massacre, where nearly 70 peaceful protesters …
ArticleDrum Magazine
… the publication of any reports or photographs of the Sharpeville massacre, nor the terrible working and living … during the 1950s – from the Defiance…
PlaceCala, Eastern Cape
… Representative Council, organising a commemoration of the Sharpeville Massacre. The reason given for his expulsion was …
PlacePhilip Kgosana Drive, Devil's Peak Estate- Cape Town
… into the City to show their unhappiness following the Sharpeville Massacre . Kgosana was arrested and within a …
EventAlbert Luthuli delivers his Nobel Peace Prize Lecture
… as president of the ANC, which had been banned after the Sharpeville massacre of 1960. However, in order to accept the …
ArticleThe International Defence and Aid Fund (IDAF)
… the accused. A short while later, on 21 March 1960, the Sharpeville Massacre took place when the Pan Africanist … The Treason Trial ended on 29 March 1961,…
BiographyDr Alfred Bitini Xuma
… the recently arrested Nyasaland leader Hastings Banda. Sharpeville and After On 21 March 1960 , police in Sharpeville opened fire on a crowd of several…
BiographyNelson Rolihlahla Mandela
… in the small southern Transvaal (now Gauteng) township of Sharpeville opened fire on a peaceful gathering of … many of whom were shot in the back as they…
EventSouth African anti-apartheid activist Ronnie Kasrils is born in the Johannesburg
… was born in the Johannesburg suburb of Yeoville. The Sharpeville massacre and its aftermath drew him closer to the …
BiographyOliver Tambo
… with a number of overseas sympathisers. Following the Sharpeville Massacre , on 21 March 1960, Tambo embarked on a …
EventSouth African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU) is formed
… Coloured People's Organisation (SACPO). Following the Sharpeville Massacre, most SACTU office bearers were exiled, …
ArticleA Charge of Treason by Norman Levy
… open to debate. The event in question was the massacre at Sharpeville (21 March 1960) in which 67 people were killed and many wounded. The Struggle Explodes…
ArchiveAfrican Communist, 1959 - 1994
… declared by the government after the police massacres of Sharpeville and Langa in 1960. The delay had been due to …
EventCall for a stay-away in Black townships
… by setting up roadblocks at the entrance of Sebokeng, Sharpeville, and Boipatong, and buses are sent under police …
EventResolute Treurnicht rejects waiving language policy
… enforcing Afrikaans in schools would result in another Sharpeville shooting incident, if the issues were not dealt …
EventPAC leader Robert Sobukwe is released
… Congress leader, Robert Sobukwe, was arrested after the Sharpeville anti-pass campaign of 1960 and harshly sentenced …