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ArticleThe South African Coloured People’s Organisation (SACPO)
… decline gained even greater momentum due to the Sharpeville massacre and the banning of the ANC. Several of …
Undelivered statement by Albert Luthuli at the time of his Trial for burning his pass, 05 July 1960
… tragic events that occurred on 21st March of this year at Sharpeville, save to say merely this. All versions of this … that the crowd which collected at the…
Appeal for action against Apartheid - Statement issued jointly by Chief Albert Luthuli and Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr,10 December 1962
… March 21, 1960 - 72 Africans killed and 186 wounded at Sharpeville by police Before and during the two-year …
Testimony by Moosa Muhammed Moolla before the Ad Hoc Working Group of the Commission on Human Rights, Dar es Salaam, 22 June 1967
… at all. I would like to mention my detention following the Sharpeville massacre. I was kept for six months in the … or discharged. But in the sixties, that…
ArchiveWebinar Programme: Strategic Debates, the ANC - SACP alliance and the Soviet Union. Convenor: Tshepo Moloi.
… the subaltern groups and classes in South Africa. When the Sharpeville massacre took place and the move to armed … steps taken towards this course of action…
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BiographyB J Vorster [John Vorster]
… came in the wake of momentous events in the country: the Sharpeville Massacre had taken place in March the previous …
"Our struggle is for progress": Statement by Albert Luthuli, 15 June 1962
… draw inspiration from our more recent martyrs who fell at Sharpeville and Langa, at Pondoland and Cato Manor, at …
Biography of Hugh Masekela by Fardin Rahman
… police in 21 March, 1960. This event is remembered as the Sharpeville Massacre e and marked the start of an era of … The government declared a State of…
ArticleSouth African Students Movement (SASM)
… (ANC) and the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) after the Sharpeville Massacre in 1960 – a series of struggles that … on the youth. By 1970, their executive had…
Armed struggle & the advancement of the student and labour movements, 1967-1976
… a new and powerful development in the 1970s.In the post-Sharpeville 1960s, the liberal National Union of South … against oppression at the work place, in the…
ArticleBoipatong massacre - 17 June 1992
… between 1984 and 1993. Beginning in nearby Sebokeng and Sharpeville Townships, popular violence spread across South …
ArchiveAppendix 4 Manifesto of Umkhonto we Sizwe by Denis Goldberg
… of force and massacre, now, deliberately, as it did at Sharpeville. Umkhonto we Sizwe will be at the front line of …
PlaceApartheid Museum, Johannesburg
… honours the 69 people who lost their lives during the Sharpeville Massacre and provides a national platform to …
PlaceLanga Township, Cape Town
… event that marked the turning point was the massacre, on Sharpeville Day, of 31 peaceful protestors on the dusty …
Re-Emergence of Congress Activity 1980s
… unrest. Three townships south of Johannesburg –Sebokeng, Sharpeville and Boipatong – were sealed off by a force of … for a National Day of Action on the…
ArchiveEleanor Kasrils: From Detainment to National Liberation by Nathan Greenhaw
… and demonstrations. However, after the events of the Sharpeville massacre , a horrendous tragedy resulting in the … direction [of armed struggle] had been…
The Role of Women in the Struggle against Apartheid, 15 July 1980
… disperse, Mr. Sobukwe said, they should do so quietly. The Sharpeville Massacre On the morning of 21 March 1960, … of Africans gathered in locations around…
Statement by Oliver Tambo at the launch of the "Nelson Mandela: Freedom at 70" Campaign, 11 June 1988, Wembley Stadium, London
… are imprisoned and detained with him. Among these are the Sharpeville Six, Robert McBride and the other freedom …
Statement at the Launch of the "Nelson Mandela: Freedom at 70" Campaign by O. R. Tambo, Wembley Stadium, London, 11 June 1988
… are imprisoned and detained with him. Among these are the Sharpeville Six, Robert McBride and the other freedom …
ArticleFatima Meer Timeline 1928-2010
… of Natal (1956 to 1988). 1960s In the wake of the Sharpeville Massacre and the declaration of the State of …
ArticleThe Anti-Apartheid Movement Abroad 1906 - 1990
… The South African Police shoot and kill 69 protestors in Sharpeville, after firing indiscriminately into a crowd. This …
ArticleUniversity Christian Movement (UCM)
… resurgence of political resistance to apartheid after the Sharpeville massacre and the subsequent crackdown on …
Nelson Mandela by O. R. Tambo - Extract from "No Easy Walk to Freedom: Articles, Speeches and Trial Addresses of Nelson Mandela edited by Ruth First", 1965.
… Pan Africanist Congress, and the peaceful gathering at Sharpeville was machine-gunned. The ANC called for a national … in prison during the state of…
This item by Oliver Tambo was published as the introduction to the book "No Easy Walk to Freedom" by Ruth First, 01 June 1965
… Pan Africanist Congress, and the peaceful gathering at Sharpeville was machine-gunned. The ANC called for a national … in prison during the State of…
Nelson Mandela by Oliver Tambo
… Pan Africanist Congress, and the peaceful gathering at Sharpeville was machine-gunned. The ANC called for a national … in prison during the state of…
ArchiveThe Way History is taught in South Africa is ahistorical, – and that’s a problem by Natasha Robinson (theconversation.com), 7 June 2018
… of the turning points in the history of apartheid: the Sharpeville massacre, the Langa march, the Soweto uprising, …
ArchiveHamba kahle Jennifer Davis 1933-2019
… work, focusing on supporting union struggles. But the Sharpeville Massacre and the subsequent banning of most …
ArchiveWhat lost photos of Blue Notes say about South Africa’s jazz history by Lindelwa Dalamba , 14 October 2019
… height of apartheid, after the clampdown that followed the Sharpeville massacre of 1960. They capture a moment in the …
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1980-1989
… and took place on the eve of the anniversary of the Sharpeville massacre. No one was injured. April, Walter … and army soldiers conducts house to house in…
State of the nation address by the President of South Africa, Nelson Mandela
… of the massacre at the anti-pass demonstration in Sharpeville she wrote that: "The child is not dead... the … not dead Not at Langa nor at Nyanga nor at…