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EventPrime Minister Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa is killed in Nigeria’s first military coup
… and had been vocal in his condemnation of the Sharpeville massacre in South Africa. He was knighted in 1960 by Queen …
ArticleYouth Politics in South Africa in the 1970s
… the North organised a march to commemorate the Sharpeville Massacre and protest against the forced removal of the …
ArticleRuth First timeline 1925-2012
… South Africans who had been killed in 1981 in the Matola massacre. October, Sechaba publishes an obituary celebrating …
ArticleThe Jacob Zuma Presidency - 2009 to 2017 (March)
… term in office was unquestionably that of the Marikana Massacre, the greatest incidence of police brutality in the … ↵ [29] No Author. “Marikana Massacre 16…
EventAmy Biehl is murdered in Cape Town
… death occurred exactly a month after the St. James church massacre, where the Azanian People’s Liberation Army (APLA), … South African History Online , ‘St…
EventNamibia gains Independence
… Force (SADF) soldiers. One such incident was the Kassinga massacre, a Namibian refugee camp in Angola on 4 May 1978. …
EventInkatha Freedom Party is concerned about stability
… its proximity to Shoshobane, the site of the Christmas day massacre of 1995, the killing of Xolo threatened the fragile …
EventSmuts becomes Prime Minister
… His stern measures to quell revolts in 1921 (Bulhoek massacre), 1922 (Rand Revolt) and May 1922 …
Speech by Oliver Tambo at funeral in Maseru, 05 December 1982
… us because, your Majesty, your people responded to this massacre with the courage that is part of their tradition and … ally Smith were defeated and when…
PlaceCala, Eastern Cape
… Council, organising a commemoration of the Sharpeville Massacre. The reason given for his expulsion was that he …
PlacePhilip Kgosana Drive, Devil's Peak Estate- Cape Town
… City to show their unhappiness following the Sharpeville Massacre . Kgosana was arrested and within a week. The …
Chapter 5 - Basotho - Their Last Supper
… the book: Le Rona Re Batho (An account of the 1982 Maseru Massacre) by Phyllis Naidoo, South Africa, 1992 Into this … the last mentioned - the Basotho, our…
EventArthur Elias Letele, medical doctor and prominent ANC leader who went into exile in Basutoland, dies
… against him were withdrawn. Following the Sharpeville Massacre and the First State of Emergency, Letele was …
EventFormation of the South African Native National Congress
… renamed as the ANC in 1923. As a result of the Sharpeville massacre and the subsequent state of emergency declared by …
ArticleThe Crackdown on the Black Consciousness Movement in 1973
… The period after the Sharpeville Massacre and the banning of the African National Congress … gathering since the period before the Sharpeville Massacre. The…
ArticleSouth African Coloured People Organisation (SACPO)
… Day of Protest called by the ANC following the Sharpeville massacre led by the Pan African Congress (PAC). After the government's State of Emergency,…
ArticleRuth Robb and her involvement with Black Sash
… Robb’s activism was also impacted by the 1960 Sharpeville massacre. The police killed 69 protesters and injured many more. After this massacre occurred, Ruth…
ArticleuMkhonto weSizwe (MK)
… that led to the taking up of arms was the Sharpeville Massacre on 21 March 1960 , where the government violently … and its allies. Therefore, in 1960 after…
EventPope Paul VI proclaims 22 new African saints. The saints, known as the Blessed Martyrs of Uganda, were a group of converts who were persecuted and martyred from 1885
… of Christian pilgrims annually. The anniversary of the massacre 3 June remains a public Holiday in Uganda and is …
ArticleThe National Council of Trade Unions (NACTU)
… of a major increase in membership since the 2012 Marikana massacre. After AMCU, the three largest affiliates are in the …
Memorandum from Nelson Mandela to F. W. de Klerk, 26 June 1992
… measures aimed at curbing the violence. 2. The Boipatong massacre on the 17th June 1992 is but a tragic culmination of … force such as the SAP to arrest…
EventThe UN General Assembly adopts resolution 1881, requesting South Africa to release all political prisoners
… (PAC), and resulting in incidents such as Sharpeville Massacre in 1960, and the founding of the ANC's military …
EventThe Anglican Bishop of Johannesburg, Bishop Ambrose Reeves, resigns
… Government, particularly his criticism of the Sharpeville massacre and the subsequent state of emergency. Reeves' …
EventThe last French troops pull out of Rwanda
… both groups were severely affected. The most well-know massacre, the 1994 (Tutsi) Genocide, took place against the …
Last kicks of a dying horse July 1992 - June 1993
… 1992 with the memory of the previous month's Boipatong massacre still fresh and negotiations having broken down. An … or inherited, began to manifest itself…
Biography of Barry Gilder by Sofia Pullen
… [ii] This was later called the Sharpeville Massacre. As a result of this tragedy, the ANC believed that … [Accessed 25 October 2016]. 2011. “Sharpeville…
Biography of Miriam Makeba by Narcy Negrete
… which means South Western Townships, was the scene of a massacre in 1976. Soweto Blues described how apartheid … tried to cover up how many lives were lost…
EventSA signs treaty with Great Britain on the supply of military equipment to South Africa
… pressure and condemnation. The events of Sharpville massacre of 1960, and the subsequent State of Emergency …
EventFormer Minister of Defence and others are charged with murder
… the end of apartheid. They were also charged with the 1987 massacre of thirteen people in KwaZulu-Natal's Kwamakutha …
Mapping Sites of Memory: The Sobukwe Letters
… On the eve of Sharpeville Massacre Day, Mapping Sites of Memory: The Sobukwe Letters …