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EventThe Dutch Reformed Church rejoins the World Alliance of Reformed Churches
… to discuss racial segregation in South Africa after the Sharpeville massacre. The DRC withdrew from the World Council …
ArticleSouth Africa and the United Nations, 1946-1990
… In 1960 the worldwide view changed as a result of the Sharpeville Incident. As from this point many Western … Elimination of Racial Discrimination in…
Article1960's Diaries of Nelson Mandela on his trip through Africa
… of the South African Communist Party(SACP) in 1950, the Sharpeville massacre in 1961 and the subsequent bannings of …
ArticleA history of prison labour in South Africa
… political unrest. However, this soon changed in the post- Sharpeville period of the early 1960s, when the imprisonment …
ArticleBiko’s imprisonment, death and the aftermath
… as an international “problem” by the Western powers after Sharpeville in 1960. It was also kept on the agenda through …
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.2 No.1 March 1979
… Abia Ramalebo Diudoileng , Matime Papane, Thamsanqa Zondo (Sharpeville),Poems : Richard Rive (Cape Town),Riva, A story …
EventThe First Draft of the Constitution is published
… text. Nelson Mandela signed the Constitution into law in Sharpeville, in Vereeniging, on 10 December 1996, which is …
Conference: One Hundred Years of the ANC - Debating Liberation Histories and Democracy Today
… of signal events, particularly the 50th anniversary of the Sharpeville Massacre, have been marked by sharp debates both …
EventDay of Reconciliation celebrated as a public holiday in SA for the first time
… apartheid through passive resistance, but after the Sharpeville Massacre in 1960, where peaceful protesters were …
Baroness Castle of Blackburn opened an exhibition on the history of the Anti-Apartheid Movement at the opening session of the Symposium
… out a black sash demonstration outside Lancaster House. Sharpeville and Langa's massacres had shocked the British … We used to stand, four of us, with our…
PlaceTownship Tours of Cape Town
… long before Apartheid increased in the country. During the Sharpeville Massacre in Gauteng (21 March 1960), there were …
75. 1960: We are at a turning-point in the history of our country
… year 1960 was indeed a turning-point. This was the year of Sharpeville; the Pan Africanist Congress and the African … the 28th March 1960 for the dead who…
EventThomas Titus Nkobi is born
… undertaken during state of emergency declared after the Sharpeville Massacre resulted in arrest by the security …
ArticleTutu and his role in the Truth & Reconciliation Commission
… Cases in point include the ruthless handling of the Sharpeville protests (1960 and 1984), the Soweto riots (1976) …
ArticleSouth African Constitution: The Bill of Rights
… Human Rights Day. This day is a commemoration of the 1960 Sharpeville Massacre and how far the nation has come in the …
ArticleBlack People’s Convention (BPC)
… the Freedom Charter. Opposition to apartheid following the Sharpeville massacre and the initial MK and Poqo operations …
BiographyWalter Ulyate Sisulu
Walter Ulyate Max Sisulu was born in the village of Qutubeni in the Engcobo district of the Transkei on 18 May 1912. Sisulu was born out of wedlock. His father…
EventRugby player Breyton Paulse is included in the national team after the ANCYL challenged the decision to omit him
… in South Africa felt compelled to do the same. After the Sharpeville Massacre in 1960, the South African rugby team, …
EventWalter Sisulu, co-founder of the ANCYL and Umkhonto we Sizwe, is born
… Congress Alliance. Early in the 1960s, following the Sharpeville massacre and the banning of the ANC and the Pan …
ArticleThe British Anti-Apartheid Movement
… of those polled supported the boycott. The Sixties - Sharpeville and After When police fired upon anti-pass protesters in Sharpeville on 21 March 1960, there…
No Arms for South Africa: Albert Luthuli, 8 May 1963
… havoc which may be wreaked on South Africa, havoc of which Sharpeville was the merest minor portent, by the most deadly … South Africa Parliament, a Cabinet…
Interview with Oliver Tambo by Le Monde, Addis Ababa, 08 June 1983
… 30 years of apartheid? Thousands. The people who died in Sharpeville and Soweto were not soldiers. Steve Biko was a …
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 4 Source-based Questions
… brutally shooting and beating protesters on the day of the Sharpeville massacre (21 March 1960) your caption here. Image … [Accessed from https://www…
ArticleEskom Energy Crisis: Will there be a “just transition” to renewable energy? by Kyla Jade Mc Nulty
… the 21st of March, we remembered the fallen victims of the Sharpeville Massacre and celebrated Human Rights Day because …
ArticleSouth African Police Services (SAPS)
… organisations. Their actions during events like the Sharpeville Massacre and Soweto Uprisings are testament to …
ArchiveJock Strachan: Artist, guerilla, fighter pilot, bomb maker, fisherman, humourist, writer, hero
… police pointing Sten guns, only days after the massacre at Sharpeville 60 years ago. The police had already shot dead a … of whites will inhibit things maybe…
Images That Preserve History, and Make It : ‘Rise and Fall of Apartheid’ at Center of Photography by Holland Cotter (The New York Times), 20 September 2012
… killed 69 unarmed black protesters in the township of Sharpeville, 30 miles south of Johannesburg. Everything … the 1950s. His picture of the mass funeral…
BiographyWinnie Madikizela-Mandela
… a Pan African Congress (PAC) anti-pass demonstration at Sharpeville , a police raid on the Mandela home saw Nelson …
Chapter IX - Treason - South African style 2
… of the ANC. His evidence ended on 21 March, the day of the Sharpeville massacre, when sixty-seven unarmed Africans were … laws". Their campaign was to have…
ArticleThe Jacob Zuma Presidency - 2009 to 2017 (March)
… of police brutality in the country since the fateful Sharpeville Shooting incident of 1960. Taking place 16 … Ziyanda. 21 March 2017. “Zuma: We must never…