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EventViolence erupts on the eve of Soweto uprising anniversary
… On the Eve of the Soweto Uprising, Soweto, 15 June 1976 By this day in 1976, the plan was already set. Days earlier, students had …
How the Ahmed Timol case was reported on at the time by South African Institute of Race Relations (Politicsweb), 28 June 2017
… 1971 with Salim Essop] had died the previous day in a fall from a tenth-floor window at the police headquarters at Jan Vorster Square, Johannesburg. He was a…
ArticleThe Mau Mau Uprising
… under the control of the Sultan of Zanzibar, but pressure from Britain and its military had forced the Sultan to hand … History. Nairobi: Heinemann Kenya…
BiographyElsa Joubert
… Poppie being translated into no fewer than 13 languages. From 1982 to 1984, her drama based on Poppie (co-authored … for Prose. Elsa Joubert received an…
BiographyIngrid Jonker
… imagery, was received amid much critical acclaim from writers, poets and critics, and fierce official … the cause of the poor and the lot of black South…
BiographyLawrence Folley
… Municipal City Orchestra. Marie had recently returned from four years of study in England. She was able to broaden … Lawrence’s 30 years as a singer. In…
BiographyBrenda Nokuzola Fassie
… about 16 years old, renowned producer Koloi Lebona came from Johannesburg to visit the Fassie's Langa home after a … business. The album Too Late for Mama,…
BiographyDoman
… at certain guarded gaps in the hedge. Horses which arrived from Batavia gave the colonists the mobility they had lacked in the war, and expeditions from the…
BiographyGeorge Naicker
… on 28 February 1978, he was banned for five years. Apart from being a member of the Natal Indian Congress he also was … term of imprisonment on Robben Island…
BiographyAaron Mosibudi Mangena
… Subsequently, he attended Wallmansthal Secondary School from 1965-1967, where he obtained his Junior Certificate with … He also served as a member of the…
Placem'Bashe Lighthouse
… is a lattice steel structure roughly 250 metres away from the original lightkeeper's house. It converted to … bring provisions. Post came to the families…
ArticleWomen in African Literature: Writing and Representation
… some of their most notable publications. Zukiswa Wanner (1976-) Writer. Feminist. African. Mother. Lover (Wanner, … last name, Cronwright-Schreiner. Olive…
EventThe Bantu Homelands Citizenship Bill is passed
… homeland, South Ndebele, was envisaged. Two years later (1976), the first homeland, Transkei, became “independent”. In … in terms of the 1936 Act and other…
History of Muslims in South Africa: 1970 - 1978 by Ebrahim Mahomed Mahida
… From the book: History of Muslims in South Africa by Ebrahim … from economic, social and political exploitation. Since 1976 the MSA has been very articulate…
EventNamibian artist, John Ndevasia Muafangejo, dies
… 1943 in Etunda lo Nghadi, Ovamboland, Angola. He came from the Kwanyama people and spent his childhood tending … the São Paulo Biennale (1971), and the…
’UNITE! MOBILISE! FIGHT ON! BETWEEN THE ANVIL OF UNITED MASS ACTION AND THE HAMMER OF THE ARMED STRUGGLE WE SHALL CRUSH APARTHEID!’
… message was Mandela's call after the Soweto uprising of 1976. It was published by the ANC on 10 June 1980, with an … was crushed by the gun. Our struggle to…
ArticleStates of Emergency in South Africa: the 1960s and 1980s
… throughout the country, leading political figures from both movements skipped the country and went into exile. … BCM-aligned organisation in 1977. The revolt…
Apartheid - a Threat to Africa's Survival - Address under the Auspices of the Nigerian National Committee on Apartheid by O. R. Tambo, Lagos, 18 March 1971
… cutting off the South African national liberation movement from all sources of assistance; to compel such client States … doubled between the years 1964 and…
BiographyMargaret Roach Killie Campbell
… of her books. This library is named after Killie, who from an early age built up her valuable and unique collection … housed in the family home, Muckleneuck…
BiographyGordon Sprigg
… a conference to consider federation, against opposition from various interests in the Cape. Sprigg chose a cabinet … the Registration Bill, excluding…
BiographyAhmed Gora Ebrahim
… If this had happened, the PAC would have been excluded from the Non-Aligned Movement, the Organisation of African … President Mao Tse Tung, and opened the…
EventNyanga school Principal’s office burnt
… On 24 June 1976 the Principal's office in Hlengisi Primary, Nyanga, … burnt down. The broader context of this is that on 16 June 1976 school children in…
Ahmed Timol: Three Documents by Politicsweb, 27 June 2017
… Timol while in the custody of the Security Police in John Vorster Square police station, Johannesburg. In testimony to … 1972 inquest, that Timol committed…
PlaceGrey Institute/School, Port Elizabeth
… During the 1850s Sir George Grey, Governor of the Cape from 1854-61, played a leading role in the establishment of … National Monument under old NMC…
Artist Bill Ainslie is born
… like the Federated Union of Black Arts (FUBA) in 1976; the Thupelo Art Project in 1985; and the Alexandra Art … Dumile Feni and Ezrom Legae, received their…
Growing social unrest: Community mobilisation, strikes and student protests in the Western Cape in the 1980s
… boycotts Student protests took a variety of forms ranging from rallies, confrontation with security forces, erection of … the removal of South African…
ArchiveHugh Lewin, 1939–2019, RIP by Jennifer Malec, 17 January 2019
… at St John’s College in Johannesburg, which he attended from 1948 until 1957, and whose school history block is now … against the mirror Image source Read…
BiographyJan Gerritze Bantjes
… Marthinus Wessel Pretorius received their first education from him. He died in Potchefstroom in the house of his eldest …
BiographySaint Mokoena
… 9. In 1977 he left school after completing Standard 8. From 1978 he worked for an Iron and Steel company until the …
BiographySamuel Makoanyane
… the aid of book illustrations. He later began modelling from life and was encouraged by C. G. Damant, who discovered …