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EventDr. Hendrik Verwoerd announces his plan to grant Transkei independence
… to the Transkei , a homeland proposed for Xhosa people under the apartheid policy of separate development. The …
EventHendrik Verwoerd becomes Prime Minister
… race should develop along its own lines. Consequently, under his leadership parliament ratified the Promotion of …
EventFatima Meer is banned for a second time
… or FEDSAW) President and the first person to be banned under the 1976 Internal Security Act, Fatima Meer, was banned …
EventPercy Qoboza, editor of the Post, states that it is difficult to see how a credible newspaper for Blacks can be created in South Africa
… South Africa, given the constant black media persecution under the apartheid regime. Qoboza served as a guest editor …
EventUS Secretary of State Cyrus Vance travels to South Africa to promote transition to black rule in Namibia
… Africa) during World War I and retained it after the war under a League of Nations mandate. In the years that …
EventEgyptian President Anwar Sadat, Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and President Carter begin a Middle East peace conference at Camp David, Maryland
… a witness. The treaty was denounced by other Arab states. Under the agreement, Israel agreed to return the Sinai to …
EventSA pledges support for a negotiated settlement in Rhodesia
… The South African government under leadership of Prime Minister John Vorster pledged …
EventSouth Africa relinquishes sovereignty over Walvis Bay
… of the area has been contested, and the area has been under Dutch, British, German and South African control …
EventDay of mourning held for Kinross mine disaster that claimed 177 lives
… throughout the mining industry to mourn these deaths, under the supervision of NUM (National Union of Mineworkers). …
EventSlachter’s Nek rebels are hanged
… four of the five ropes attached to the gallows snapped under the body weight of their prisoners. The men were still …
EventFormation of the South African Native National Congress
… out of a situation of racial exclusion and discrimination under the new Union of South Africa. SANNC aspired to unite …
EventGeneral Louis Botha wins elections
… appointed Jan Smuts as his Minister of Defence. It was under Botha's government that the Immigrants Regulation Act …
EventBambatha Rebellion
… fulfil the labour needs of mines. In 1906 a group of Zulus under leadership of Chief Bambatha refused to pay the tax. A …
EventMorgan Tsvangirai becomes Prime Minister of Zimbabwe
… countries, the dominant Zanu-PF party and MDC-T under Tsvangirai agreed to share power in a multi-party …
PlaceAfrica South Art Initiative (ASAI), University of Cape Town
… digital projects include the production of archives for under-documented artists and community arts organisations; …
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Chapter 2 - The Soweto Uprising of June 1976: A Turning Points Event by Phil Bonner
… political crime, without access to a lawyer. Many detained under this Act were re-arrested at the end of the first 90 days. One thousand people were detained…
The Role of the Missionaries in conquest - Chapter XII - End and Beginning
… It is a period that is well known to us. The conditions under which we live to-day, as outcasts in the land of our … of "Christian Trusteeship," which is…
Chapter 2 - The Soweto Uprising of June 1976: A Turning Points Event
… political crime, without access to a lawyer. Many detained under this Act were re-arrested at the end of the first 90 days. One thousand people were detained…
Extraordinary ministerial meeting of The Co-ordinating Bereau Of The Non-aligned Countries on the question of Namibia -1985
… to the heroic freedom struggle of the Namibian people under the leadership of SWAPO, the sole and authentic … spectacle of fraudulent "elections" in South…
Re-emergence of resistance, 1980-89
… Sekhukhuneland, buses and taxis were hijacked and, under the direction of the “comrades”, set out for … to unprecedented depths. Chiefs who had fled returned…
ArticleInsurrections I: Tracks and Lyrics
… death I saw fleeing flesh leaving a trail of putrid smells under the resplendent sun at noon orchestras and symphonies … field We cannot wait until the cows…
ArticleSouth African Coloured People Organisation (SACPO)
… Coloured political organisation of the time, the CPNU under the leadership of George Golding, favoured a policy of … Group Areas Coordinating Committee was…
ArticleYoung Communist League of South Africa (YCLSA)
… YCL The YCL was banned, together with the SACP, in 1950 under the Suppression of Communism Act. When the SACP was … Congress (PAC) and other liberation…
ArticleThe 1913 Mineworkers’ Strike
… back to work by police and white miners. Many were jailed under the Masters and Servants Act . White union members and … that with African miners on board,…
ArticleThe Pietermaritzburg Treason Trial, 1984
… homes between 9pm and 6am. The trial continued on 22 July under the watchful eye of the international press. 1984. The … of the Security Police testified on…
Statement by Oliver Tambo at May day rally, 01 May 1987, Stockholm
… restrictions and subjected to undisclosed atrocities under a vicious state of emergency, with thousands of young … to win a place of respect and honour among…
Message over Radio Tanzania to the people of South Africa by Oliver Tambo, 26 June 1969
… stolen our land, driven us out of our homes, enslaved us under their pass laws. They live like lords on the wealth of … your destiny which is defined in the…
PlaceGoodman Gallery
… against the segregation defining exhibition practices under Apartheid law, in which Black artists and art viewers … , Sam Nhlengethwa , and Sue Williamson…
Message by Oliver Tambo on the twentieth anniversary of the Tanganyika African National Union, 01 July 1974
… all the people and the security of their State. Tanzania, under the leadership of Mwalimu Julius Nyerere, has in the … consolidating and strengthening with…
Message on the Twentieth Anniversary of the Tanganyika African National Union by O. R. Tambo, July 1974
… all the people and the security of their State. Tanzania, under the leadership of Mwalimu Julius Nyerere, has in the … consolidating and strengthening with…