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Address by President Jacob Zuma at the celebration of 60th Anniversary of the Freedom Charter, Kliptown, Johannesburg, 26 June 2015
… culminated in the massacre of 69 unarmed demonstrators at Sharpeville on March 21 1960. It followed this up ten days … Mandela, signed the Constitution on 10…
ArticleYouth and the National Liberation Struggle
… reflected the apathy that had set in following the Sharpeville massacre. And during the next decade and a half, …
Document 38 - Certification of the Constitution; a summary of the judgment of the Constitutional Court
… all possible means. Their leaders were obliged, after the Sharpeville massacre of 1960 and the massive repression that …
ArticleSouth African Coloured Peoples Organisation (SACPO)
… National Day of Protest called by the ANC following the Sharpeville massacre led by the Pan African Congress (PAC). …
ArticleCape Town Timeline 1300-1997
… six women in Cape Town Timeline: Cape Town 1960-1979 1960 Sharpeville Massacre: In the wake of Sharpeville, African students loyal to the African National ……
Johannesburg Timeline 1800-1991
… Pimville as a Black suburb. 21 March, Some 69 residents of Sharpeville, a Black residential suburb near Vereeniging are … unrest. Three townships south of…
Biography of Caiphus Semenya
… unnecessary deaths. Forced removals and events such as the Sharpeville Massacre convinced Semenya that South Africa was …
ArticleSouth African Coloured People Organisation (SACPO)
… National Day of Protest called by the ANC following the Sharpeville massacre led by the Pan African Congress (PAC). …
ArticleRuth Robb and her involvement with Black Sash
… interpreter. Robb’s activism was also impacted by the 1960 Sharpeville massacre. The police killed 69 protesters and …
Gandhiji and the struggle for liberation in South Africa
… Africa as a means of resistance, especially after the Sharpeville massacre? The answer is not simple. I believe … apartheid violence by the major Western…
Statement of the African National Congress by Oliver Tambo, 18 March 1980
… to place exclusive reliance on the "brave" police of Sharpeville, Soweto and Silverton fame, or on the …
Forward to a People's Government by O. R. Tambo - Statement of the ANC, 18 March 1980
… to place exclusive reliance on the "brave" police of Sharpeville, Soweto and Silverton fame, or on the …
ArticleSouth Africa’s Foreign Relations during Apartheid, 1948
… In 1960 the worldwide view changed as a result of the Sharpeville Incident. As from this point many Western … Elimination of Racial Discrimination in…
ArchiveBiography of Bavumile Herbert Vilakazi
Biography of Bavumile Herbert Vilakazi. Bavumile Herbert Vilakazi was born on 12 June 1955 in Evaton, the fifth son of a family of five boys, his politisation…
Speech by Oliver Tambo at a press conference in London, 21 March 1984
… We owe this day to a massacre that took place in Sharpeville, South Africa, many years ago now. It shocked the … regime. The record of events in southern…
Press Conference In London by O. R. Tambo, 21 March 1984
… We owe this day to a massacre that took place in Sharpeville, South Africa, many years ago now. It shocked the … regime. The record of events in southern…
Chapter XI - Witness for freedom
… violence by the government and the police, which followed Sharpeville. I did not foresee the spiral of violence, which … the victims of the proclaimed State…
PlaceGauteng Province
… of the struggle against apartheid. It is here that: the Sharpeville massacre ; the 1976 Soweto riots ; as well as the …
My Spirit Is Not Banned - PART 3 by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner
… in those protests. I don't know why they did this, but at Sharpeville and at Langa the police killed many people. The …
ArchiveRemembering Hugh Masekela: the horn player with a shrewd ear for music of the day by Gwen Ansell (The Conversation), 23 January 2018
… patrons at home and abroad. Pushed by the horrors of the Sharpeville massacre when the South African police shot and …
Hugh Masekela: the horn player with a shrewd ear for the music of today, not yesterday, 29 October 2017
… patrons at home and abroad. Pushed by the horrors of the Sharpeville massacre when the South African police shot and …
ArticleAfrican Resistance Movement (ARM)
… in the struggle against apartheid in South Africa was the Sharpeville Massacre and its aftermath. The heavy-handed …
ArticleState of Emergency - 1985
… aggressive responses include the 25 th anniversary of the Sharpeville Massacre , where 17 people were killed during a …
Last of The Gandhians in South Africa
… Yet, in 1960, during the State of Emergency after the Sharpeville massacre, he was detained for three months …
Memorial lecture on the 26th Anniversary of the Lowveld Massacre presented by Comrade Jackson Mthembu ANC National Spokesperson, 15 March 2012
… Massacre. Like other Massacres before this one, e.g. the Sharpeville Massacre, Langa Massacres, Soweto Massacre to … the well documented known killing of…
Document 5 - Programme of the Communist Party of South Africa adopted at the seventh annual conference of the Party
… know whether it was abrupt. It came in... the wake of Sharpeville, when people had protested peacefully and... … more belligerent and intransigent. Of course…
Chapter XII - Can we be free?
… been hard to bear ”” the defection of the Pan Africanists, Sharpeville, the long months of detention when leadership was … by the very organisation, which…
ArchiveThe Anti-Apartheid Movement Abroad by Max Rossiter
… followed the banning of liberation movements after the Sharpeville Massacre on March 22, 1960. Suring a protest … get revolutionary training in Russia and…
ArchiveThe Little Acknowledged Legacy of Steve Biko by Prithiraj Dullay, (Daily News), 08 Sept 2008
… message to Black South Africa! We were on our own. Sharpeville in 1960 and Soweto in 1976 demonstrated the …
South Africa's freedom struggle by E.S. Reddy
… of the underground South African Communist Party. The Sharpeville massacre, the outlawing of the African National …