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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 …
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…
EventSA to be admitted to the African Games provided that competitions in SA are held without racial discrimination.
… are held without racial discrimination. Eight years later (1976), Tanzania refused to go when the International Olympic … O’Malley P. ‘1968’ , from Nelson…
EventDeputy Minister of Bantu Education,Treurnicht is warned about deteriorating conditions in Soweto
… situation in the Black township as the events of 16 June 1976 bore testimony. … Leader of Pro-Apartheid Party in South Africa ' from La times , 4 April …
EventJoint call for June 16 Stay away
… Black and White, in commemoration of the Youth of 1976, who were killed in the streets of Soweto while …
EventLucas Seage is born
… Botswana and then Damelin College in Johannesburg in 1976. In that same year he also attended Mofolo Arts Centre …
EventPupils boycott classes in defiance of the use of Afrikaans in their schools
… occurrences until the ultimate breaking point on 16 June 1976, when the Soweto uprising took place that caused uproar …
PlaceDurban Main Post Office
… a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 25 June 1976. …
My Spirit Is Not Banned - PART 3 by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner
… From the book: My Spirit Is Not Banned by Frances Baard and … talk about this and this! A lot of leaders were banned from attending meetings and we were not…
ArchiveApartheid - a vigilant witness
… they were concerned with eventual survival. (Ernest Cole from A House of Bondage, the first published book of … 1987). Banned in 1968, Magubane is best known…
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…
PlaceCora Terrace Houses (1,3,5,7,9,11), Port Elizabeth
… a National Monument under old NMC legislation in 1975 and 1976 respectively. Not often will you have the opportunity …
EventBeyers Naude refuses to testify before the Schlebusch Commission
… was fined R50, 00 or one month in prison. On 28 October 1976, he was arrested for refusing to pay the fine. …
EventSouth African President Charles Roberts Swart opens the first session of the Transkei Legislative Assembly
… Daliwonga Matanzima as the chief minister. On 25 October 1976, Transkei was granted independence with Matanzima … Political History: A Chronology of…
Chief Dingiswayo
… was possibly Dr Cowan, a Scottish explorer, who travelled from Cape Town in a north-easterly direction in about 1806. … ivory trading networks with the…
Nelson Mandela Correspondence around Mandela’s health
… Introduction Apart from a prostate operation in 1985 and equally successful … happen tomorrow but at the moment I am right on! 24 May 1976 Do you still…
EventEthiopia requests OAU to stop Somali intervention in the Ogaden Province
… African countries started long before the Ogaden War. In 1976, Ethiopia distributed a 39 page memorandum titled “War … July 2012)|Boddy-Evans A. ‘This day in…
EventLindiwe Sisulu is detained
… On 13 June 1976, Lindiwe Nonceba Sisulu was detained for her involvement …
ArchiveBlack consciousness: a reactionary tendency
… This article is a reprint, and first appeared in June 1976 in The Educational Journal of March-May issue. The …
PlaceFunda Community College
… education in the aftermath of the student uprisings of 1976. The majority of young people in Soweto were not … also receives a small amount of funding for…
PlaceSt Margaret’s House, Parktown, Johannesburg
… National Monument under old NMC legislation on 5 November 1976. St Margaret's was built in 1905 and is not visible from the road, but what a pleasure it is…
EventThe Erasmus Commission’s report implicates Rhoodie, Mulder and van den Bergh in SA’s infamous ‘Information Scandal’
… of South Africa. In an attempt to deflect attention from his role in the scandal, Voster had vowed that those … of South Africa escalated following the…
ArticleList of uMkhonto weSizwe Operations
… FOUR Please note: Information in this list was drawn from press reports and the Annual Surveys of the SAIRR. These … 1961 and July 1963. There were no deaths…
Article1946 African Mineworkers Strike
… familiar 'fall of rock' and who, at deep levels, ranging from 1,000 to 3,000 feet in the bowels of the earth, … movement; almost immediately it shifted…
BiographyBarney Barnato
… and Barney became Kimberley's MP in the Cape Parliament from 1889 to 1897 Barney Barnatto committed suicide on his …