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EventThe Erasmus Commission’s report implicates Rhoodie, Mulder and van den Bergh in SA’s infamous ‘Information Scandal’
… of South Africa escalated following the Soweto Revolt in 1976. The Department of Information was also … by students who had fled the country following the…
BiographyGovindasamy Krishnasamy Thambi Naidoo
… Opinion as C.K. Thambi Naidoo. However, an obituary in the Rand Daily Mail (1 November 1933) gave the full name …
EventOne hundred and twenty three people banned following June 16 Student Protest
… Three days after the 1976 Students' Revolt the Government banned 123 people for their involvement … This failed to curtail mass action campaigns and the…
EventHerero people of South West Africa, now Namibia, begin uprising
… Herero wrote a letter with these instructions after the revolt had already begun. All preparations for the revolt were kept secret. On 12 January, several…
EventMass arrests in Pondoland
… police who had primary responsibility for dealing with the revolt. The main tool used was mass detentions. Statements … Commission by Kairos and by…
ArticleSlave Resistance
… swelled to 300 mutinous slaves and servants. News of the revolt soon reached the Governor of the Cape, who ordered … a slave named Galant who was aged 25 at…
EventThe Pondoland Revolts
… The Pondoland revolt in the Eastern Cape refered to the action taken by … such incidences occurred thereafter. As a result of this revolt, meetings were…
BiographyDr Alfred Bitini Xuma
… Rheinallt-Jones, both pillars of white liberalism on the Rand. Pim chaired the Johannesburg Native Welfare Society in … South Africa, she worked on child…
ArticleSilverton Siege
… a generation of MK recruits thrown up by the Soweto Revolt of 1976. …
In Conclusion: The Decline and Fall of the Tricameral Parliament
… the security forces, which were unable to suppress the revolt. After the African National Congress (ANC) made a call …
EventGermany declares South West Africa a German protectorate
… In 1903, the Nama (also referred to as Hottentots) rose in revolt, under their leader Hendrik Witbooi. In 1904 the Herero Revolt broke out. German military…
ArticleThe Information Scandal
… established by government to act as a counter voice of the Rand Daily Mail , an English newspaper influential in the … 's protest. The Muldergate scandal…
Article”People’s Power!”, 1986
… in 1986 for the UDF was managing to prolong the people's revolt. In 1976 - 1977, the uprising had not managed to … early 1986 on the power of the people and…
PlaceRehoboth
… Soldiers to guard South African Prisoners, led them to revolt. German forces attacked Rehoboth, committed atrocities … years later a second rebellion broke…
EventCI and SACC offices are raided
… part of a campaign following the outbreak of the Soweto Revolt on 16 June 1976. Dr. Beyers Naude, founder and Chief … that could link these formations to the…
ArticlePopular struggles in the early years of Apartheid, 1948-1960
… bus boycotts broke out during the 1950s. In the East Rand Brakpan, Germiston and Katlehong were also affected by … explained by the presence of top ANC…
List of deaths in detention
… 40 35 60 30 30 Security HQ, Durban Modderbee Prison, East Rand Kei Road Jail, East London Caledon Sq., Cape Town Held:Modderbee Prison Died: Far East Rand…
ArticleJune 16 Soweto Youth Uprising timeline: 1976-1986
… in the townships. Within four months of the Soweto revolt 160 African communities all over the country were … 123 persons have been banned as a result of the…
EventAnti apartheid activist Dr. Richard Turner is assassinated
… of cooperation with black students following the Soweto Revolt two years earlier. This, evidently, is what Turner had … on student activists in the period…
ArchiveBlack and white poster of a printer and a printing press: no 14: Chile
… Dag'. No. 14 Svenolov Ehren in bottomleft hand corner and Revolt 1935 in bottom right hand corner. …
ArticleNelspruit Timeline 1815-1996
… of Bantu Administration. TMGE (Pilgrims) is taken over by Rand Mines. Rand Mines and Thomas Barlow & Sons merge to become Barlow Rand. 1972 Van Riebeeckpark…
Fortieth Anniversary of the 1946 Mine Strike
… the Union demanded a minimum wage of ten shillings (one rand) per day, and sweeping improvements in conditions … truth - of the miners' strike. Monday:…
ArticleGrade 9 - Term 4: Turning points in modern South African History since 1948
… nine policemen were shot. Unlike elsewhere on the East Rand where police used baton when charging at resisters, the … on demonstrating students. This…
ArchiveSpeech made by Mrs Winnie Mandela to mark the
… Immediately following the "childrens revolt" in Soweto in June 1976 and the massacre and …
ArchiveBlack and white poster: Chile: no. 8
… chasing away gentry. No. 8 in bottom left hand corner. Revolt 1935 in bottom right hand corner. …
ArticleSouth African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU)
… remained stagnant at 15 000 between 1956 and 1961. The Rand committee was affected by the treason trial arrests. The … managed to establish and resuscitate…
ArchiveHow a slave from Mauritius led a rebellion in Cape Town by Nigel Worden (Ground Up), 30 March 2016
… Swartland and Koeberg hinterland of Cape Town rose up in revolt. They attacked over thirty of the prosperous grain … and in particular by the massive and…
EventViolent clashes about the Transkei territorial authorities continues
… suppressed the violence that culminated into an open revolt against the establishment of the Transkei Territorial … SAHO, ' Bizana and the Pondoland Revolt…
ArticleThe 1913 Mineworkers’ Strike
… troops of the British garrison and deployed them to the Rand. Meanwhile the strike committee called for a meeting in … next day, Saturday 5 July, clashes…
EventThe Roman Catholic Church decides, in principle, to open its 192 all-white schools to black pupils
… schools. The uprising then escalated into a nation-wide revolt, revitalising the struggle for liberation in South …