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Keynote address on the launch of Mafika Gwala’s Collected Poems Howard College, UKZN, 6 October 2016 by Mandla Langa
… critic has lumped Mafika Gwala together with the so-called Soweto Poets, a branding with which he was always at war. … the system gobbled up its children and…
EventMass Democratic Movement (MDM) begins their Defiance Campaign
… boycotts amongst its members. A year later, the Township Uprising broke out, resulting in a partial state of emergency …
EventThe Slagtersnek rebels are tried in the Uithenhage landdros court
… death. Hans and his neighbor Hendrik Prinsloo planned an uprising against the British colonial government as they …
EventA German gunboat, the Panther, reaches Morocco, increasing tensions between European powers
… Morocco against the Sultan, Abdelhafid. In response to the uprising, the French in April 1911 dispatched troops to prop … 1 [Online],Available at: www…
ArticleWorld War I Timeline 1916
… and the British head home instead of pursuing them. 4 June On the Eastern front, four Russian armies under General … at Verdun to assist the Austro-Hungarian…
Segregationist Legislation Timeline 1950-1959
… the target of the Defiance Campaign of 1952. Commenced: 18 June 1951. It was revalidated on 2 March 1956 after a court … aimed to effect the removal of…
The Afrikaner Bond
… during the first three years of its existence’. But on 20 June 1879, SJ du Toit published an editorial in the Patriot … Charter, and met with Bond…
New Generation Sculpture
… for his own community, was commissioned by a sangoma in Soweto to carve a ' nyamusoro' doll and now also works in … the gap between was and is", The Weekly…
Concluding Remarks
… that protest art is a phenomenon of the Eighties, or that Soweto 1976 heralded the first wave of overt political … of Natal (School of Architecture - Durban…
PlaceKenya
… the dawn of a rebellion against British rule Although this uprising was unsuccessful, it propelled the nation on a path … people, and the KAU played a key…
Biography of Eli Weinberg by Karen Folz
… disseminating posters announcing MK’s formation on 16 December 1961, the day of the organisation’s first … orders, eventually escaping South Africa during…
PlaceUmhlanga, Durban
… Airport and situated on the Northern Beaches, just 16 km from the Centre of Durban. The Umhlanga Rocks coastline … from 24 - 33 degrees Celsius, and Winter…
PlaceBurkina Faso
… on to rule for 27 years before being ousted in a popular uprising in 2014. …
EventThe South African Air Force is established
… 1922, when it helped to crush the Rand Revolt , an armed uprising by white mineworkers. The SAAF bombed targets around …
PlaceThe Queen’s Fort Military Museum, Bloemfontein
… of the South African Constabulary, and following the armed uprising of 1914-15, its leader, General CR de Wet, as well …
In the Belly of the Beast - Speech at Conference of the International Committee against Apartheid, Racism and Colonialism in Southern Africa (ICSA) by O. R. Tambo, Stockholm, April 1980
… at the great international Conference held in Lisbon on June 16, 1977, (2) and attended, amongst others, by the … Botha's meetings with bantustan leaders,…
The Mountain Committee
… many were forced to flee from the area. Between March and June, 27 kraals were reported to have been burnt down. The most serious clash took place on June 6…
ArchiveSishaywa Zimvula Nje, Simanikiniki Nje, Umhlol’Usekhaya – Reading Mafika Gwala in Times of Thunder and the Terror of the Elements by Sanibonani Molweni
… Unxele/Old Man Nxele’s Remorse written after the 16 June Soweto riots. It asks a simple, yet brave question for the …
ArticleLetters: Albertina Sisulu
… Albertina was warned in a speech by Anton Lembede, an ANC Youth League activist. Knowing Walter well, he said that she … did badly, but they have picked up…
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.3 No.1 Feb 1980
… Groups: ZAMANI ARTS ASSOCIATION, Dobsonville, ALLAHPOETS, Soweto CYA, Diepkloof, eSkom ARTS, Soweto PEYARTA, Port Elizabeth, GUYO BOOK CLUB, Sibasa MADI …
EventRichard Maponya, one of South Africa's richest businessmen, is born
… into business, first by opening small grocery shops in Soweto with his wife. He then went on to bigger ventures such … group Zenprop in the construction of a…
‘African Gandhi’: The South African War and the Limits of Imperial Identity by Goolam Vahed
… £3 annual membership fee, most members were merchants. [16] Until 1899 the strategy of Gandhi and the NIC was … and men only. [82] When Gandhi wrote to the…
Dream of Total Liberation of Africa is in Sight - Message of the National Executive Committee of the ANC on the 72nd Anniversary of ANC by O. R. Tambo, 8 January 1984
… rule in the old way. We recall how, at the height of the Soweto uprising, J.B. Vorster made bold to declare, "there is no … in recent years. Everywhere in…
January 8th Statements -Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 72th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1984
… rule in the old way. We recall how, at the height of the Soweto uprising, J B Vorster made bold to declare, "there is no … in recent years. Everywhere in the…
Chapter 4 - THE PARTY AND THE “SOLDIERS OF LUTHULI”
… after the first formal ANC-SACP meeting in exile, in June 1970, the Party organised its first augmented CC meeting … the re-emergence of trade unionism and…
Archive”I am Albertina Sisulu”, Interview from Blue Portraits
… present in their first meeting when they were forming ANC Youth League, that in 1949 had a program of action. After I … does not happen with the black…
PlaceNorth West
… bracing. Summers are hot with temperatures ranging from 16 – 38 degrees C. The vast expanses of this African savannah … Peglerae (plants that flower as a…
V - The Funeral
… watched as black police hauled mourners off the buses in Soweto and assaulted them with truncheons. The physician said … Convention, SASO, the Black Women's…
ArchiveIt is an obvious fact that who ever took pain to discredit and talk ill of the SSRC
… A handwritten note supporting the Soweto Students Representative Council …
ArticleColonial history of Bloemfontein
… were then established and the town grew larger. In June 1850 the first municipal commissioner was appointed, … unaccustomed to Bloemfontein. These 'loose…