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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.”…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…