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EventThe Security Council begins deliberations on the situation in South Africa
… to 200 in what has come to be known as the Sharpeville Massacre. … Online , ‘Police kill 69 people during the Sharpeville Massacre’ , [online] available at…
ArticleDrum Magazine
… of any reports or photographs of the Sharpeville massacre, nor the terrible working and living conditions of … the 1950s – from the Defiance Campaign to the…
Article1960-1966: The genesis of the armed struggle
… against apartheid. The aftermath of the Sharpeville Massacre , in 1960, signalled the beginning of a far more … the hard way.” This event became known as the…
EventAlbert Luthuli delivers his Nobel Peace Prize Lecture
… of the ANC, which had been banned after the Sharpeville massacre of 1960. However, in order to accept the award in …
EventSamora Machel pledges solidarity with the people of South Africa
… with the South African people, in reaction to the massacre on 30 January 1981, where more than 14 uMkhonto …
BiographyNelson Rolihlahla Mandela
… whom were shot in the back as they fled. The Sharpeville Massacre changed the face of South African politics as on 30 … and investigative press. …
ArchiveAfrica South Vol.5 No.1 Oct-Dec 1960
… The Heart of Darkness. Cartoon, Papas. The Pondoland Massacre, Dennis Kiley. Cartoon, Gask. South Africa’s …
EventSouth African anti-apartheid activist Ronnie Kasrils is born in the Johannesburg
… in the Johannesburg suburb of Yeoville. The Sharpeville massacre and its aftermath drew him closer to the African …
EventEleven people are killed at Donnybrook, Kwazulu
… in an overnight attack in Donnybrook. Hours before the massacre, former President Mandela had opened the ANC's …
EventA Second Plenary session of Multi Party negotiations for a transition to democracy in South Africa reconvene
… suspending all talks with the Government in the wake of a massacre in Boipatong on 17 June when more than 40 were …
EventRecord of Understanding is agreed to by the SA government and the ANC
… came shortly after the funeral of victims of the Bisho Massacre where scores of people were killed by the Ciskei …
PlaceMarikana, Bojanala Platinum District Municipality
… of South Africa. In this Area, is where the 'Marikana Massacre' occurred on August 16 2012, the South African … the North West Province of South Africa. This…
EventSouth African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU) is formed
… People's Organisation (SACPO). Following the Sharpeville Massacre, most SACTU office bearers were exiled, banned, …
BiographyOliver Tambo
… number of overseas sympathisers. Following the Sharpeville Massacre , on 21 March 1960, Tambo embarked on a “Mission in …
The genesis of the armed struggle, 1960-1966
… against apartheid. The aftermath of the Sharpeville Massacre , in 1960, signalled the beginning of a far more … the hard way." This event became known as the…
ArticleThe Founding of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF)
… and strikes across the country. After the Marikana Massacre, Shivambu, Magaqa, and Anda Bici met with …
The armed struggle and state repression of the 1960s
… injured. There was immediate reaction to the Sharpeville Massacre from across the world as people saw how violent the …
EventGandhi leads Satyagraha Passive Resistance Campaign
… Campaign, the 1952 Defiance Campaign and 1960 Sharpeville Massacre. …
UCT Summer School 2020
… 2020 UCT Summer School. Local and South African History MASSACRE ON THE FRONTIERS DURING THE REVOLUTIONARY PERIOD: … course will look at the causes, course…
EventThe PAC is formed
… was banned in South Africa after the Sharpeville Massacre in March 1960. Within the next few years, the …
EventHugh Masekela, South African musician, is born
… the political unrest surrounding the 1960 Sharpeville Massacre. Masekela studied at London's Guildhall School, then …
EventPAC leader Robert Sobukwe is born
… scores injured in what became known as the Sharpeville Massacre. …
EventPassbook laws relaxed
… and kill 69 people in what became known as the Sharpeville massacre, leading to South Africa's first state of emergency …
PlaceShell House, Johannesburg
… after its Unbanning in 1990, and was the site of a 1994 Massacre that threatened to undo preparations for the first …
ArticleGrade 9 - Term 4: Turning points in modern South African History since 1948
… For this complex period to be studied, the Sharpeville massacre, Soweto uprising and the release of Nelson Mandela … African population of the country, where…
The Colonial Photographic Discourse and Censorship – Challenges for Resistance Photographers
… became banned. 48 The negative press from the Sharpeville massacre of 1960 (where security forces killed sixty-seven … of objectionable imagery increased…
Article1970s: Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa
… (PAC) in 1959. Resistance in the 1960s a. The Sharpeville Massacre By 1958, nearly one and a half million Africans were … had been shot in the back as they…
ArticleGrade 11 - Apartheid South Africa 1940s to 1960s
… Freedom Charter The women Resistance movement Sharpeville Massacre Rivonia Trial Also see: … Freedom Charter The women Resistance movement Sharpeville…
Poqo political trials and the execution of its operatives in the 1960s
… mobilization of the 1950s culminated in the Sharpeville massacre on 21 March 1960 . Soon thereafter the apartheid … Campaign in 1952 and culminating in the…
EventThe Cato Manor riots begin due to the ‘beer issue’ and looming forced removals
… Cato Manor riots of June 1959, and six months later, the massacre of nine policemen. However, there was another reason …