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ArticleYouth and the National Liberation Struggle
… struggle preceded the student uprising of June 16, 1976. Before the establishment of the African National … youth wing. Young people took part in political…
ArticleThe Cordoned Heart
… in the project. The title of the exhibition and book comes from a poem by the great South African poet Ingrid Jonker, … “The Child that was shot at Langa.”…
EventMaritime headquarters at Silvermine is opened
… Prime Minister B.J. Vorster officially opened the South African Navy's R15m … modern Advokaat naval communications system at the base, from where the…
Political report by Oliver Tambo on the National Executive Committee to the National Consultative Conference of the African National Congress, 17 June 1985, Kabwe, Zambia
… Nazi progenitor, this regime was a historical anachronism from the very first day of its existence, a remnant of an … Period of Extreme Reaction Within our…
Political Report of the National Executive Committee to the National Consultative Conference of the ANC by O. R. Tambo, Kabwe, Zambia, June 1985
… Nazi progenitor, this regime was a historical anachronism from the very first day of its existence, a remnant of an … Period of Extreme Reaction Within our…
Coetzee as Contractarian: Disgrace as Political Theory by Joshua Richman
… rights was an inevitability of the “tremendous pressure from both local and international capital” (127) should be … Africa being a whole body of united…
EventMinister reports 23 acts of sabotage in RSA
… Congress (ANC) respectively, Minister of Justice John Vorster, announced that there had been twenty-three incidences of sabotage from late September to date…
ArticleSASO till SASCO
… (SRC) President, Onkgopotse Abram Tiro, is expelled from the UNIN. 1972 May E Isaacs, the SRC President at the … executive members were either banned or had…
ArticleStudent Politics: SASO till SANSCO
… (SRC) President, Onkgopotse Abram Tiro, is expelled from the UNIN. 1972 May, E Isaacs, the SRC President at the … executive members were either banned or had…
Constitution of the Republic of South Africa Act 110 of 1983
… P W Botha came to power in 1978, the government of John Vorster had begun a process for constitutional reforms. A … state abuse. The government excluded the…
ArchiveCHAPTER 2 - You only win once by Howard Barrell
… - Prioritising armed struggle, January 1974 - June 1976 A struggle is made up of failures essentially. It’s … with them a close ideological affinity and…
ArticleInternational Rugby World Cup Timeline 1983-2011
… seen as representatives of the apartheid government. The 1976 All Blacks (New Zealand's national rugby team) tour of … condemnation that resulted in 28…
ArticleAftermath: Sharpeville Massacre 1960
… massacre was reported worldwide, and received with horror from every quarter. South Africa had already been harshly … to an economic slump as international…
Black South African Poets of the 1970’s and their Publications
… Date Keorapetsi Kgositsile The word is Here: Poetry from Modern Africa 1971 For Melba 1970 The Present … up to it, AD Donker 1975 The Bues is…
EventIan Smith of Rhodesia and Henry Kissinger meet in Pretoria
… rule for Rhodesia. South African Prime Minister B.J. Vorster joined the final stages of the talks. Towards the end of 1974, Vorster, backed by President…
EventMarais Viljoen is inaugurated as state president
… he had been elected on 4 June 1979. Viljoen replaced B.J Vorster who had resigned on that date. Before being elected … he served as acting state president…
Nelson Mandela and the last Afrikaner leaders by Hermann Giliomee (Politics Web), 12 May 2015
… mixed parliament with the majority in control.” [1] From the mid-1960s the government built up what was regarded … the British historian Stephen Ellis,…
ArticleEnuga Sreenivasulu Reddy Timeline 1924 - 2020
… in 1941, and Ramamma. 1943 E.S. Redy receives his B. A. from the University of Madras, India. 1946 March, E.S Reddy … Dr. A. B. Xuma, 1948 Reddy obtains his…
ArticleYouth Politics in South Africa in the 1970s
… African Student Organisation (SASO) was gathering support from campus to campus. Their activities were becoming … initiated into the Congress tradition by…
EventPW Botha refuses to testify before the TRC
… Republic of South Africa in 1978 and later its President from 1984-89, made his comments in a written statement issued … with the chairperson of the…
ArticleAzanian People’s Organization (AZAPO)
… the National Association of Youth Organisations (NAYO). In 1976 through to 1978 large numbers of young people left the … motion plans to continue political…
ArticleAlbertina Sisulu Timeline 1918 - 2011
… It is here that she had to choose a Christian name from a list presented to her by the missionaries. … Albertina's son Zwelakhe joined Rand Daily Mail as…
South African and World leaders
… talks with President FW de Klerk about a South Africa free from apartheid. Mandela and De Klerk were jointly awarded the … forgive each other for wrongs…
ArticleDevelopments leading to the New Dispensation
… By the late 1970s, and especially as a result of the June 1976 uprising , the Apartheid government was forced to … resistance to the policies of separate…
EventNelson Mandela is elected Deputy President of the ANC
… when he asserted that Nelson Mandela would be released from prison. He also announced the unbanning of the African … made it possible for the ANC to relocate…
SACTU press release in ‘New Age’, 22 November 1962
… York: International Publishers, p.434 "Does he (Minister Vorster ) believe that by sealing off these [house arrested] … then? Apartheid will be as unworkable…
EventChurch Council meets PW Botha over unrest
… was weakened by the withdrawal of people like Desmond Tutu and Bishop Manas Buthelezi. The SACC was founded in the … Click here to read an article by…
EventMass protest against the circumstances of Neil Aggett’s death
… was in response to a call for a nationwide work stoppage from the mostly nonwhite African Food and Canning Workers … will be imprisoned, banned and die,''…
ArchiveSomeday we will all be free
… A2 poster full colour, photo Archbishop Tutu …
Event90-Days Act comences
… 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…