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ArticleResponse to the June 16 Soweto Youth Uprising by organisations in exile
… South Africa. This is the day the country reflects on the massacre of school children during the Soweto Uprising of …
ArticleBlack People’s Convention (BPC)
… Charter. Opposition to apartheid following the Sharpeville massacre and the initial MK and Poqo operations that …
Edwin Mofutsanyana the oldest Communist in Africa: Flyer for briefing by Edwin Mofutsanyana. August, 1991
… 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…
Message to the People of South Africa by O. R. Tambo, August 1976
… in many parts of our country have stood against brutal massacre and defied police bullets in a sustained offensive …
EventRugby player Breyton Paulse is included in the national team after the ANCYL challenged the decision to omit him
… felt compelled to do the same. After the Sharpeville Massacre in 1960, the South African rugby team, known as the …
EventWalter Sisulu, co-founder of the ANCYL and Umkhonto we Sizwe, is born
… Alliance. Early in the 1960s, following the Sharpeville massacre and the banning of the ANC and the Pan Africanist …
PlaceTsolo, Eastern Cape
(prior to 1910) St Augustine's was established in 1865 by the Reverend Bransby Key as a station of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel on Foreign…
PlaceColigny, North West Province
… Coligny, a staunch French Huguenot who was killed in the Massacre of Saint Bartholomew’s Day (24 August 1572) in …
ArticlePan Africanist Congress timeline 1959-2011
… PAC in Atterdgeville aged 16 just after the Sharpeville Massacre. March, Nana Mohomo and Peter Molotski are appointed … 180 others in what became known as…
Interview with Oliver Tambo by Le Monde, Addis Ababa, 08 June 1983
… fallen, from triumphing. Each murder, each hanging, each massacre merely feeds the desire for revenge and mobilises …
PlaceTownship Tours of Cape Town
… Apartheid increased in the country. During the Sharpeville Massacre in Gauteng (21 March 1960), there were similar …
EventThe ANC calls for a day of protest and observes this day as 'South Africa Freedom Day' for the first time
… of protesters. For the first time since the 1921 Bulhoek Massacre the police opened fire on the protesters killing 18 …
ArticleThe Western Cape Farm Workers Strike 2012-2013
… The farm workers strike was inspired by the Marikana Massacre that occurred on 16 August 2012, where the South … they wanted to avoid a situation similar to…
ArchiveArt Fair forced to reinstate Mabulu painting after Goldblatt threat by Matthew Krouse (Mail & Gurdian), 28 September 2013
… Mabulu said on Saturday. Based on the 2012 Marikana massacre, Mabulu's artwork depicts President Jacob Zuma …
Statement by Oliver Tambo on the murder of Griffiths Mxenge, 01 November 1981
… act would serve to dissuade the people from struggle. The massacre of our people in Matola in January, the murder of …
Document 17 - The Groote Schuur Minute
… non racist democracy in our country. I have focused on the massacre in Lesotho only. But the list is long and the …
EventSouth Africa Freedom Day - 26 June 1950
… of protesters. For the first time since the 1921 Bulhoek Massacre, the police opened fire on the protesters, killing …
The Centenary Celebration of the February Revolution 8-12 March 2017
… regiment of the Imperial Guard mutinied in protest of the massacre carried out by their training squad. Most of the …
ArticleSouth African Police Services (SAPS)
… Their actions during events like the Sharpeville Massacre and Soweto Uprisings are testament to their campaign …
Chapter 8 - Survivors
… the book: Le Rona Re Batho (An account of the 1982 Maseru Massacre) by Phyllis Naidoo, South Africa, 1992 In the … SADF , comrades argued. That was the…
PlaceSharpeville, Gauteng
… 69 of them. This absurd act was known as the Sharpeville Massacre , many protests were initiated around the Country …
PlaceLeliefontein
… ), it was the site of the devastating 1902: ' Leliefontein Massacre '. From the 1960s until 2016, Leliefontein was a …
INTERNATIONAL NGO CONFERENCE AGAINST APARTHEID AND COLONIALISM IN AFRICA Geneva, 2 - 4 September 1974
Statement by Sean MacBride United Nations Commissioner for Namibia Having had the honour and privilege of presiding over the Special NGO Committee on Human…
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1960 - 1969
… laws from Monday, the 21st March. March 21, The bloodiest massacre in the history of South Africa takes place at … mobilising mass action in response to the…
Book 2: The Impact and Limitations of Colonialism - Chapter 1 - The Uneven Development of Colonialism in South Africa by Jeff Peires
… manifested itself in such atrocities as the Makapansgat massacre of 1854 (see box on page 16). Every ZAR citizen had … to the tenth degree." The cave of…
ArticleThe South African Coloured People’s Organisation (SACPO)
… gained even greater momentum due to the Sharpeville massacre and the banning of the ANC. Several of its prominent …
ArchiveThe exilic geographies of the South by Benjamin N. Lawrance and Vusumuzi R. Kumalo
… migration that began immediately after the Sharpeville Massacre. It was a wave that swept beyond South Africa’s … many of whom were never to return. To be…
PlaceKnysna Forest
… 1802, settlement was disrupted because of the De Poort Massacre, during the Third Frontier War. This delayed …
'States of Emergence', at Warren Siebrits Modern and Contemporary Art by Sean O'Toole, November 2002
… African artist at the time to comment on the Sharpeville massacre. The works are striking for their immediate likeness …
Address by his excellency, President Jacob Zuma at the 50th Anniversary of the Mpondo Revolt of 1960, 07 June 2010, Ingquza Hill, Lusikisiki, Eastern Cape
… commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Ingquza Hill massacre. This is the land where the struggle icon and … was still reeling from the shock of the…