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ArticleSAHO Commemorates 40 Years since Soweto Uprising: Intergenerational Dialogue
… open letters between the generation of student activists from 1976 and the current generation of student activists. The …
ArchiveCommission of Inquiry into the South African Council of Churches held at Pretoria on 1 September 1982, Volume 1 and Volume 2
… Transcript of Volume 1 and Volume 2, evidence from Bishop Desmond Tutu, of the Commission of Inquiry into the South African …
Origins: Formation, Sharpeville and banning, 1959-1960
… of the more 'Africanist' members of the ANC were excluded from the hall. Rather than cause a confrontation, they … after PAC was formed. The PAC moves…
EventNP serves legal papers on TRC
… called on the court to order Archbishop Desmond Tutu to refrain from making further public statements which 'compromise the … Political History: a chronology…
EventThe South African Bureau of State Security (BOSS) is established
… After becoming Prime Minister of South Africa in 1966, John Vorster met with Hendrik van den Bergh, the head of the South … Security Branch. At this meeting,…
ArchiveCommission of Inquiry into the South African Council of Churches held at Pretoria on 2 September 1982, Volume 3
… Transcript of Volume 3, evidence from Bishop Desmond Tutu and Joseph Wing (honorary life Vice-President of the SA …
Statement at the Ninth Extraordinary Session of the Council of Ministers of the Organisation of African Unity, Dar Es Salaam by O. R. Tambo, 7 – 10 April 1975
… of our people who are languishing in enemy prisons. John Vorster, the white minority regime's Prime Minister, … however, to understand that racialism cannot…
EventThe Kingdom of Ashanti is formally annexed by Great Britain
… part of the Gold Coast management in 1897. Led by Osei Tutu together with his chief priest, Ashanti changed the … became the first nation in Africa to gain…
BiographyDr Yusuf Mohamed Dadoo
… throughout the train station. On his walk to the school from the train station, Dadoo recalled how White children … In 1920, a 22 year old PS Joshi moved to…
A Future Free of Exploitation - Address to the First Congress of MPLA by O. R. Tambo, Luanda, December 1977
… Congress of the MPLA warmest and most fraternal greetings from the National Executive Committee of the African National … fundamental reason for the…
ArticleApartheid Legislation 1850's-1970's
… Black Land Act No 27 of 19 June 1913 Prohibited Blacks from owning or renting land outside designated reserves … until 1969. This clause was re-enacted in…
PlaceGhana
… Komenda and Kormantsil. In 1637 they captured the castle from the Portuguese and that of the town of Axim in 1642 … Faso , and the capital is Accra. The name…
EventSouth Africa's TRC begins its formal hearings into Human Rights Violations
… Commission (TRC), under Chairman Archbishop Desmond Tutu, began its first formal hearings in East London City … during the apartheid era. The Commission…
Event90-Days Act commences
… completion of their sentences, if Minister of Justice Vorster deems them a potential danger to the country or … the opposite. In a remarkable example of…
Racism in Isolation by O. R. Tambo, World Marxist Review, March 1980
… all in the "independent" bantustans. It plans to recruit from among the oppressed a black bourgeoisie linked to the … the efforts to assist the regime to…
ArticleJohn Maxwell Coetzee timeline 1940-2003
… 1940 Born in Cape Town. 1960s Graduates from the University of Cape Town with Mathematics and English. 1972 Earns a PhD in literature from the University of…
EventJoe Kachingwe is appointed Malawi’s first Ambassador to South Africa
… a state visit by South African Prime Minister, B.J. Vorster in May 1970. Vorster and his party, the National Party (NP) were … received in Malawi. Following…
EventSouth Africa’s TRC begins its formal hearings into Human Rights Violations
… Commission (TRC), under Chairman Archbishop Desmond Tutu, began its first formal hearings in East London City … during the apartheid era. The Commission…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1960-1969
… an estimated group of between 30 000 and 50 000 Africans from surrounding African townships march into the centre of … the magisterial district of…
ArticleCommemoration, remembering and memorialising June 16 Soweto uprising
… been different ways and forms through which the June 16 1976 student uprisings have been commemorated. The Soweto … were involved in the Soweto Student…
BiographyAdrian Leftwich
… charitable works. Leftwich obtained his BA Honours degree from the University of Cape Town (UCT), Western Province (now Western Cape), South Africa and his…
Article by Oliver Tambo in World Marxist Review, 06 March 1980
… all in the "independent" bantustans. It plans to recruit from among the oppressed a black bourgeoisie linked to the … the efforts to assist the regime to…
ArticleChanging Perceptions of Nelson Mandela
… government, serving as Secretary General of the ANCYL from 1948. By the time the Defiance Campaign began, Mandela … of the ‘rainbow nation’ was coined by…
EventThe TRC is set up by parliament
… this period resulted in violence and human rights abuses from all sides. No section of society escaped these abuses. … The commission was chaired by Anglican…
ArticleFatima Meer Timeline 1928-2010
… her to the magisterial district of Durban and excluded her from all gatherings and from being published. Check this date … within months of its founding. The…
EventFirst celebration of National Heritage Day
… most notable being that of Arch Bishop emeritus Desmond Tutu, who in 2007 was made the National Spokesperson for … are so many things that are pulling us…
EventAhmed Timol born on the 3rd Nov 1941
… at the hands of the security police at the infamous John Vorster Square. The initial inquest ruled that he had committed suicide by jumping from the 10th…
Township Uprising, 1984-1985
… and sometimes even discouraged UDF involvement. June 1976, Soweto Youth Riots. Picture: Bailey's African History … of the UDF, not the revolts. The UDF felt…
Nelson Mandela Correspondence around financial problems
… the family dry. I had hoped things would improve a bit from the end of this month when Mum gets her first pay packet after living on the dole for so long. 15…
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Chapter 1 - People, Politics and Ideology by Malegapuru William Makgoba
… From the book: Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid … during the 1970s was the uprising that began on 16 June 1976. Police opened fire on youths protesting…