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ArticleAfrica: Colonialism, Arts, Protest & Independence
… of Africa Pan-African Congress organizes demonstration in Sharpeville; South African police kill sixty-seven National … Law Campaign demonstrators in what…
ArticleOrganization of African Unity Timeline 1884-2000
… of Africa. Pan-African Congress organizes demonstration in Sharpeville; South African police kill sixty-seven National … Law Campaign demonstrators in what…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1970-1979
… of the Special Committee against Apartheid to commemorate Sharpeville. 6 April, Solomon Mahlangu, an MK operative is …
The African Resistance Movement (ARM): An Organisational History
… in the struggle against apartheid in South Africa was the Sharpeville Massacre and its aftermath. The heavy-handed …
The Afrikaanse Handelsinsituut
… measures for the benefit of white workers. But after the Sharpeville Massacre the AHI urged the government to ease the …
The Freedom struggle in Rustenburg
… on which strikes would be mounted every year, especially Sharpeville Day (21 March), 16 June, and May Day. In 1986, …
ArticleApartheid and reactions to it
… climaxed by a tour of the Western Cape. Six days after the Sharpeville emergency in 1960, Luthuli sought to rally …
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at a Joint Sitting of the Houses of Parliament on the Occasion of the 10th Anniversary of the Adoption of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, Cape Town, 8 May 2006
… on International Human Rights Day, December 10, 1996, in Sharpeville, the site of the Sharpeville Massacre 36 years earlier, in 1960. On this … faith which…
Interview with Oliver Tambo by Mayibuye,1 September 1981
… with machine-gun fire. As we saw it at the time, it was Sharpeville in reverse; a glorious reply to the massacre of our people in Sharpeville and Ngquza Hill…
Chapter 5 - Basotho - Their Last Supper
… to know that demon dompass. The final straw was the Sharpeville massacre on 21 March 1960; the family decided … So Naphtali left South Africa to escape the…
Memorandum of the National Committee for Liberation. London, mid-1963
… in spite of the fact that three years have gone by since Sharpeville. Looking at the strategic situation beyond South …
Article1967 Terrorism Act, No. 83 of 1967
… 1973, Nkutsoeu Matsau and six others were arrested in Sharpeville, Vereeniging under the Terrorism Act; by … one still in custody (SAIRR, 1974: 82). A member…
ArticleThe Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and the Anti-Apartheid Struggle
… to visit the USSR. Formal Ties Begin It was only after the Sharpeville Massacre and the banning of the ANC and Pan … taking care of detainees and their…
ArchiveBiography of Oupa John Hlomuka
Biography of Oupa John Hlomuka. Oupa John Hlomuka was born on 24 June 1953 in Evaton where he attended school until standard 8, he joined the Azanian people's…
ArchiveRadio Freedom: A History of South African Underground Radio by Chris A. Smith
… in a township south of Johannesburg, killing 69. The Sharpeville Massacre, as it came to be known, prompted the …
ArticleThe development of Music in South Africa timeline 1600-2004
… suburb of Triomf built in its place. In the wake of the Sharpeville Massacre in 1960 and the subsequent State of …
Abdullah Ibrahim and the Politics of Jazz in South Africa
… and other jazz styles during the repression following the Sharpeville Massacre. The 1960s and 1970s were a difficult …
South African Youth Revolutionary Council (SAYRCO)
… alienated from developments in South Africa since the Sharpeville massacre in 1960. In exile the latter group, led …
ArticleSouth African Congress of Trade Unions Timeline 1919-1997
… strikes in response to banning of the ANC. 21 March, Sharpeville massacre. 30 March, Unlawful Organizations Act …
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1960s
… 20 March, Rioting and arson in Pondoland. 21 March, At Sharpeville the police open fire on the unarmed and peaceful crowd, killing 69 and wounding 186…
Post-detention weapons
… penalty under renewed public scrutiny was that of the 'Sharpeville Six', who were convicted of the killing in September 1984 of the deputy mayor of…
Extract from a speech during a political meeting held on 17 June 1971 at Naboomspruit in the Waterberg constituency
… the Gestigtes who talk like this, can we afford a second Sharpeville 3 in South Africa? While I am talking about that, … who want to make it their aim to…
Chapter Seven - Re-examining the Past
… not certain but Gomas apparently joined the PAC before the Sharpeville-Langa March. At its first annual conference, the … and Josias Madzunya. A few days…
Opening Address to the ANC’s 48th National Conference by O. R. Tambo, Durban, 2 July 1991
… before me. I left the country in 1960, a week after the Sharpeville massacre and just before the ANC and the PAC were banned. Sharpeville, of course, marked…
Freedom movement in South Africa: Its International impact by E.S Reddy
… of ANC in 1958 for a boycott of South Africa and the Sharpeville massacre of 1960, millions of people around the … little action by the United Nations on…
Oliver Tambo, 1 October 1987 - Reproduced in Oliver Tambo and the Struggle against Apartheid, edited by E. S. Reddy
… persuaded to undertake the responsibility. Soon after the Sharpeville massacre of March 21, 1960, when the regime …
Speech at the Tenth General Conference of the United National Independence Party by O. R. Tambo, Zambia, August 1988
… activists of the democratic movement. In addition to the Sharpeville six, there are scores of patriots presently in …
Address by his excellency, President Jacob Zuma at the 50th Anniversary of the Mpondo Revolt of 1960, 07 June 2010, Ingquza Hill, Lusikisiki, Eastern Cape
… when the country was still reeling from the shock of the Sharpeville massacre, mourning their loved ones, families …
Oliver Tambo, October 1987
… persuaded to undertake the responsibility. Soon after the Sharpeville massacre of March 21, 1960, when the regime …
Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom - Chapter 2 - Explaining the Miracle by Max du Preez
… to stop a mass demonstration against the pass laws at Sharpeville . The massacre led to a hardening of attitudes on …