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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…
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…
PlaceMonterey House, Klaasens Road, Wynberg
… converting their existing building to a neo-Tudor mansion. From 1951 to 1976 it served as a private preparatory school for boys and … during its years of…
EventFatima Meer, South African anti-Apartheid activist is born
… in 1956. She was placed in solitary confinement in 1976 and survived two assassination attempts. Meer was the … for another five years in 1981. Her ban…
EventChief George Mzimvubu Mathanzima, former Prime Minister of Transkei, dies
… Independence Party (TNIP) which pressed for 'independence' from South Africa. When Transkei became 'independent' in 1976, Kaiser Matanzima took office as…
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…
ArchiveBiography of Ellen Kuzwayo by Laura Wilson, 3 May 2018
… mother after her parents divorced. Her father was absent from much of her youth, and only really came into her life … of the Young Women’s Christian…
EventRhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith visits the United States, challenging officials to support his plan for the transition of government in the country.
… After declaring in 1976 that there would never be majority rule in Rhodesia, … pressures and international sanctions. Further urging from then U.S. Secretary…
ArticleSouth African Congress of Trade Unions Timeline 1919-1997
… gathering. September, Ray Alexander is ordered to resign from her position as General Secretary of the Food and … 1965 Viola Hashe is banned and restricted…
ArchiveThe New South African Revolution by Prithiraj Dullay, 03 April 2017
… S African Revenue Service, plus his deputy were recalled from London in the midst of a promotional roadshow for … becoming the norm and decided to move in…
Document 4 - ‘Our Annual Conference - An Inspiring Gathering’: report in the ‘South African Worker’
… and modern, that absolutely nothing will stop a people from attaining their freedom to be a people who can hold … Mr Botha, declared that South Africa was…
BiographyNicolaas Cornelius Carstens
… married six times and enjoyed spending the money he earned from performances on fine clothes and big cars. However, …
BiographyJ. Congress M. Mbata
… leadership conference of December 1960 but later withdrew from the continuation committee during the controversy over …
BiographyMuziwenhlanhla Trevor Phila Makhoba
… of his work in the Campbell Smith Collection, ranging from gender issues and sexual taboos to HIV/AIDS, recent …
BiographyNell Kaye
… She was one of the few professional sculptors, aside from Ivan Mitford-Barberton (qv.), to exhibit her work with …
BiographyChristopher W. M. Gell
… White champions of the African cause,After graduating from Cambridge University with a first class pass in1938, … Barnes, Antony Bugg-Levine, Thomas Karis,…
BiographyChristopher Nceba Faku
… prison term on Robben Island . Following his release from prison, Faku was elected as regional organiser of the …
BiographyIsaac Zakes Nkosi
… Solomon “Zulu Boy” Cele. Mbaqanga (the name derives from Zulu, meaning something like “steamed maize bread”) …
BiographyElliot Tonjeni
… workers had made him notorious among whites, was banned from the western Cape. Moving his base of operations to the …
BiographyBenedict Wallet Vilakazi
… can Displace the earth that covers me Nor ever keep me from my sleep. If you who read these lines should chance To … Vilakazi, Benedict Wallet , from the…
BiographyMatthew Nkoana
… for the rank and file PAC defendants standing trial apart from the campaign's leaders. He served part of his sentence …
BiographyAbner S. Mtimkulu
… Congress attempted to maintain a degree of independence from the national ANC. When Dube died in 1946, Mtimkulu …
BiographyPetros Molefe
… out on the night of the 16 December 1961 was a unit from Dube, in Soweto, who attempted to blow up the Municipal …
BiographyLeoni Marinovich
… in June 2002. She obtained a B.A. Urbanology in 1990 from the University OFS, and went on to become a Business …
Mooroogiah Dhanapathy Naidoo
… for six months as one of the leaders of volunteers from the Indian Congress who set up tents on land that was …
BiographyMokgadi Caster Semenya
… at school and trained everyday after school, often running from village to village. Semenya attended Nthema Secondary … she remained in the front of the race…
BiographyMary Dorothy Benson
… and country clubs, Benson’s early ambitions were a far cry from where she would eventually end up. The younger daughter … arrest, her passport was…
BiographyImam Abdullah Haron
… for the building trade and teaching professions; they came from the Fakier, Sadan, Hattas, Galant and Ganief families. … in his life, had been in close…
EventThe National President of the Black People’s Convention, Kenneth Hlaku Rachidi, declares that riots have lead to a new era of political consciousness
… On 27 June 1976, almost two weeks after the Soweto Uprising on 16 June, … Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid…
EventThabo Mbeki is elected 2nd President of a democratic South Africa
… will not be realised until our people are freed both from oppression and from the dehumanising legacy of deprivation we inherited from … inauguration…