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Increasing repression and the turn to the armed struggle
… an underground military wing known as Poqo ('Pure') in the 1960s. This became the first black political organization in … spread. After the government…
ArticleTeachers League of South Africa (TLSA) conference in 1925
… a prominent member of the APO who played a key role as the main organiser of the TLSA’s founding Conference under the … 1940s membership of the TLSA began to…
BiographyHerbert Isaac Ernest Dhlomo
… the ANC Youth League. Dhlomo is considered as one of the main ideologues of the Youth League, and became its convenor … By 1947, the ANC in Natal had stopped…
BiographyHarry Heinz Schwarz
… in order to concentrate on politics. Beginning in the late 1960s, Schwarz rose to national prominence as a rising …
EventThe Azanian People’s Organisation is formed
… L.E. (eds)(1999). Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to …
EventJimmy Kruger announces amendment to the Internal Security Act
… L.E. (eds)(1999). Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to …
EventUN passes resolutions on South Africa
… involving South Africa was also made. Click here to read a chronology on the UN and Apartheid Source: Fraser, R …
The Durban Mystery Unraveled: An empirical analysis by Eddie Cottle
… no direct connection was made with worker struggles of the 1960s as these scholars and others incorrectly believed that the 1960s was a period of…
EventThe National President of the Black People's Convention, Kenneth Hlaku Rachidi, declares that riots have lead to a new era of political consciousness
… L.E. (eds) (1999) Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to …
EventPresident Vorster challenges Dr Rhoodie
… L.E. (eds)(1999). Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to …
BiographyThabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki
… of Marxism that swept Europe in the latter half of the 1960s and remained ardently loyal to the Soviet Union, which … states had gained their independence…
BiographyChris Hani
… of the ANC's leaders in the Treason Trial (1956) as his main motivation to begin participating in the struggle for …
EventSWAPO attacks SAP
… L.E. (eds)(1999). Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to …
EventDe Kock is convicted of six killings
… J. A. et al (1999). Southern African Political History: A Chronology of Key Political Events from Independence to …
EventTrevor Manuel unveils GEAR
… L.E. (eds)(1999). Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to …
EventKitchener’s opinion on Concentration Camps
… and children in White concentration camps Click here for a chronology on Black concentration camps. …
ArticleSouth Africa’s Foreign Relations during Apartheid, 1948
… an effective and peaceful means of pressure. However, the main trading partners of South Africa continually voted … the policy, mandatory sanctions were…
ArticleAfrican Peoples Democratic Union of Southern Africa (APDUSA)
… to criticize the apartheid government throughout the 1960s. Through its newsletter, Unity, APDUSA offered regular … movement in the 1970s and 1980s. By the…
EventScores of people are killed in Boipatong, Vaal
… country and disrupt the negotiations. References: UNHCR, ‘Chronology for Europeans in South Africa’, [online], …
EventUN Security Council urges SA government to end Rivonia Trial
… in international action Click here, to read SAHO's Chronology on United Nations and Apartheid. …
EventThe National President of the Black People’s Convention, Kenneth Hlaku Rachidi, declares that riots have lead to a new era of political consciousness
… L.E. (eds) (1999) Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to …
BiographyMotlotlehi – His Majesty King Constantine Bereng Seeiso Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho
… established the Matsieng Development Trust, a body whose main purpose was to encourage and promote rural development … L.E. eds (1999) Southern African…
BiographyHarry Garuba
Harry Garuba was born in Akure, southwestern Nigeria, in 1958. [1] At the young age of seventeen he was accepted to study English at the University of Ibadan…
BiographyDr Somalingum (Leslie) Ponnusamy
… also continued his service to the community and the main highlight was the Ponnusamy family’s commitment to the …
Soweto and mounting pressure on the apartheid state, 1970s
… was a new source of resistance that had arisen in the late 1960s among students who formed the student body the South … National Indian Council set up by the…
A history of Volkskas and the Absa Banking group
… and patronised the bank. It began to diversify in the 1960s, setting up industrial and other enterprises, so that … as a result of the economic boom that…
BiographyMakhanda Nxele
… War-priest or war-doctor Second to chief in times of war Main adviser to chief Doctors the army for protection … to rebel. [76] Makhanda lived 1.5km away…
Event523 people die in the Black concentration camps of the Second Anglo Boer War
… 1. Pieter G. Cloete (2000). The Anglo-Boer War: A chronology. ABC Press, Cape Town, p.331. Benneyworth, …
EventSouth Africa signs SADC treaty
… L.E. (eds) (1999). Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to …
EventUmkhonto We Sizwe, military wing of the ANC, claims responsibility for power station blast
… L.E. (eds) (1999). Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to …