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EventGandhi leads Satyagraha Passive Resistance Campaign
… Resistance Campaign, the 1952 Defiance Campaign and 1960 Sharpeville Massacre. …
The child who was shot dead by soldiers at Nyanga by Ingrid Jonker
… dead neither at Langa nor at Nyanga nor at Orlando nor at Sharpeville nor at the police station in Philippi where he …
'States of Emergence', at Warren Siebrits Modern and Contemporary Art by Sean O'Toole, November 2002
… drawings by Harold Rubin. According to Siebrits, Rubin's Sharpeville portfolio, with its aggressive use of line, was … by a South African artist at the time…
Mapping Sites of Memory: The Sobukwe Letters
… On the eve of Sharpeville Massacre Day, Mapping Sites of Memory: The …
Africa South
… events such as the bus boycotts, political trials and the Sharpeville uprising were featured. …
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, …
EventHugh Masekela, South African musician, is born
… into exile after the political unrest surrounding the 1960 Sharpeville Massacre. Masekela studied at London's Guildhall …
EventPAC leader Robert Sobukwe is born
… and leaving scores injured in what became known as the Sharpeville Massacre. …
EventPassbook laws relaxed
… to shoot and kill 69 people in what became known as the Sharpeville massacre, leading to South Africa's first state …
BiographyJames la Guma
James Arnold la Guma (Jimmy) was born on 23 August 1894 in Bloemfontein, Orange Free State (now Free State Province). A trade unionist and political activist,…
Black Reaction to Apartheid, 1948-1973 - Address to the Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association by O. R. Tambo, Syracuse, New York, United States of America, 1973
… were many incidents of limited massacre which preceded Sharpeville in March 1961. By 1959 the ineffectiveness of … country was organised into positive…
Article1970s: Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa
… Congress (PAC) in 1959. Resistance in the 1960s a. The Sharpeville Massacre By 1958, nearly one and a half million … thousands of people gathered outside the…
ArticleGrade 11 - Apartheid South Africa 1940s to 1960s
… congress The Freedom Charter The women Resistance movement Sharpeville Massacre Rivonia Trial Also see: … congress The Freedom Charter The women Resistance…
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.7 No.1 1988
… by Nicolette Thesen; Highway Blues by Wally Mondlane; Our Sharpeville by Ingrid de Kok; The Blood of our Silence by …
EventBanned PAC Leader, Robert Sobukwe, is refused an exit permit to leave SA
… of Kimberley. Robert Sobukwe was arrested after the Sharpeville anti-pass campaign of 1960 and sentenced to three …
EventPrime Minister Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa is killed in Nigeria’s first military coup
… Unity (OAU) and had been vocal in his condemnation of the Sharpeville massacre in South Africa. He was knighted in 1960 …
ArticleYouth Politics in South Africa in the 1970s
… of the North organised a march to commemorate the Sharpeville Massacre and protest against the forced removal …
ArticleRuth First timeline 1925-2012
… the Treason Trial . 1960 March, In the aftermath of the Sharpeville shootings, First takes her children to Swaziland. …
EventHilda Bernstein passes away
… Campaign, the 1955 Freedom Charter Campaign and 1960 Sharpeville Campaign. Bernstein was arrested and issued with …
EventArthur Elias Letele, medical doctor and prominent ANC leader who went into exile in Basutoland, dies
… when the charges against him were withdrawn. Following the Sharpeville Massacre and the First State of Emergency, Letele …
EventFormation of the South African Native National Congress
… it was renamed as the ANC in 1923. As a result of the Sharpeville massacre and the subsequent state of emergency …
ArticleThe Crackdown on the Black Consciousness Movement in 1973
… The period after the Sharpeville Massacre and the banning of the African National … anti-apartheid gathering since the period before the Sharpeville Massacre…
ArchiveThe exilic geographies of the South by Benjamin N. Lawrance and Vusumuzi R. Kumalo
… of an exilic migration that began immediately after the Sharpeville Massacre. It was a wave that swept beyond South … of the apartheid government repression…
EventThe UN General Assembly adopts resolution 1881, requesting South Africa to release all political prisoners
… Congress (PAC), and resulting in incidents such as Sharpeville Massacre in 1960, and the founding of the ANC's …
EventThe Anglican Bishop of Johannesburg, Bishop Ambrose Reeves, resigns
… of the Government, particularly his criticism of the Sharpeville massacre and the subsequent state of emergency. …
Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom - Timeline
… 1955 26 June, Adoption of the Freedom Charter 1960 March, Sharpeville massacre 1975 Mozambique and Angola gain …
EventThe Republic of South Africa is established
… constantly increased in intensity as time passed. After Sharpeville (March, 1960) the ANC. and PAC. abandoned their …
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1960 - 1969
… massacre in the history of South Africa takes place at Sharpeville, Transvaal . The police open fire on an unarmed … partners began mobilising mass action…
EventProceedings against SA start in the International Court of Justice
… African mandate was still in force. However, after the Sharpeville Massacre in March 1960, world opinion turned more …
EventBeyers Naudé is served with his second banning order
… question the justifications of the apartheid system. The Sharpeville Massacre was a turning point in Naudé life, as it …