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ArticlePolitical executions in South Africa by the apartheid government 1961 - 1989
… divisive legislation, and sheer brute force. The period from the 1960s to the 1980s was punctuated by the enactment … political activity. After the Soweto…
The Durban Moment: Revisiting politics, labour, youth and resistance in the 1970s
… continuities but also a significant break ideologically from the liberation movements of the 1950s. The intellectual … measure of influence through political…
PlaceNdabeni
… alongside it in prefabricated buildings purchased from the military. Within a short time this had grown into a … first of the four homelands to be granted…
‘Ubuqaba’ and ‘UbuGqobhoka’: Reading Zakes Mda’s Heart of Redness through a Post-Developmental lens by Rachel Fenton
… allegiance to the banners of reason and progress (52). From the early 1950s “such a will had become hegemonic at the … development model. As a scholar in…
Arthur Chaskalson: 24 November 1931 - 1 December 2012 by Jeremy Gauntlett, 4 December 2012
… the afflicted. Chaskalson graduated B Com LLB cum laude from the University of the Witwatersrand in 1954. He was also … death of Ismail Mahomed in 2001,…
Marikana and the New Politics of Grief, 20 August, 2012 - Jon Soske
… most of the workers faced a slow and excruciating death from silicosis if they returned to work. One trade unionist … quotes a NUM official who alleges that…
Broadcast to South Africa by OR Tambo on the 8th Anniversary of Umkhonto we Sizwe, 16 December 1969
… at all levels whether we operate in South Africa or from outside its borders. Already the distribution of … Johannesburg and Port Elizabeth under the fascist…
Capture the Citadel. Broadcast to South Africa on the eighth Anniversary of the Formation of Umkhonto we Sizwe by O. R. Tambo, 16 December 1969
… at all levels whether we operate in South Africa or from outside its borders. Already the distribution of … Johannesburg and Port Elizabeth under the fascist…
Who Shot My Dad? by Jann Turner
… sister's and my bedroom window, who it was that ran away from the house as my father lay bleeding, who it was that … myself in the desultory, livid pink…
EventMore than a dozen people are killed, including seven children, in Kwamakhutha Massacre
… From 1976 to 1996, political violence in KwaZulu Natal led to … These allegations were proven true during the testimonies from Colonel Eugene de Kock, former…
EventCI and SACC offices are raided
… On 27 November 1976 the offices of the Christian Institute (CI) and the … following the outbreak of the Soweto Revolt on 16 June 1976. Dr. Beyers Naude,…
The Colonial Photographic Discourse and Censorship – Challenges for Resistance Photographers
… was the struggle to overcome the blind spots resulting from an internalised apartheid ideology. To see what had not … to the public relations disaster of the…
EventParamount Chief, Botha Sigcau is appointed the first President of Transkei
… Transkei became the first Homeland to gain independence in 1976. On 30 December 1987, Major General Bantu Holomisa, … O’Malley, P. ‘1976’ , from Nelson…
ArchiveMinutes of a Meeting between Officials of the Department of Bantu Administration and Development, the West Rand Bantu Affairs Administration Board, Representatives of the Urban Bantu Councils on the West Rand ...
… Board, 80 Albert Street, Johannesburg on 29 June 1976 at 09h00 …
BiographyMimi Coertse
… artist, a prima donna, at all, is quite amazing. She comes from a humble Afrikaans family, and arrived in Vienna ii 1954 … to have absorbed a multitude of…
BiographyManilal Gandhi
… labour, character building and some formal subjects. From an early age Manilal learnt to work in the printing … Mewa Ramgobin and served as an ANC member of…
Nelson Mandela Correspondence around birthdays and anniversaries
… flesh rubs onto me, your navel and heartbeat. Three years from now we celebrate our Silver Jubilee where and how? Till … that this time I'd prefer us to be…
PlaceDoornkop/Doornsluiten
… to the 1913 Land Act . The Act restricted Black people from buying or occupying land except as an employee of a … owner, an absentee landlord, evicted about…
ArchiveInterview with Sibongile Mthembu Mkhabela
… Soweto Students Representative Council at the time of the 1976 Soweto uprising. She subsequently was a defendant in the …
EventThe trial of eleven Soweto students charged under the Terrorism Act begins
… conspired to commit sedition and terrorism between May 1976 and October 1977. On 11 May, 1979they were convicted of … (Accessed: 29 August 2012)|O’Malley P. …
In memory of Archbishop Dennis Hurley by Phyllis Naidoo, 16 September 2009, Durban
… makes that impossible. I shall try: Around 1938, we moved from Pentrich to Thomas Street, the bottom end of Church … work. They had a library or was it a…
BiographyAleta Michaletos
… born in Pretoria in 1952. She earned her BFA in painting from the University of Pretoria in 1974. Since 1971 she has …
BiographyWopko Jensma
… temporally interrupted by a motorcycle accident. However, from 1961 to 1964 he enrolled for a Bachelor's Degree in Fine …
BiographyCaptain Lancelot Andrew Ariba
… Chaplin and the Table Mountain Aerial Cableway Stations. From 192 he and his partner C.P. Walgate designed the …
BiographyMtutuzeli Dudu Pukwana
… meeting saw Pukwana change his chosen musical instrument from piano to alto sax. Later in life, Pukwana met musician …
BiographyIan Berry
… for a year, becoming an enthusiastic amateur himself. From there he proceeded to work at a photographic studio, …
BiographyMargaret Nash
… Africa. Her devotion to Christianity didn’t prevent her from criticising South Africa’s churches for not taking a … C. (2011). Obituary: Margaret Nash: Human…
EventMinister introduces free and compulsory education
… This was the fifth concession to Black demands since the 1976 Soweto Uprising. The government had also reversed the … South African History Online, (2013), …
EventPupils refuse to return to school before Soweto Uprisings
… This marks a turning point and leads to the 16 June 1976 event of the Soweto Uprising. As the boycott spread to … Democracy Education Trust (SADET)," The…
EventJames Ranisi Jolobe, Xhosa author and poet, and Presbyterian clergyman, dies in Tsolo, Transkei
… On 16 May 1976, South Africa lost a poet, author and a clergyman. James …