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PlaceRichards Bay
… Coast in 1879. After this event, Richards Bay went from small fishing Village to a major Port, opened in 1976. Richards Bay now boasts one the largest Coal…
EventAnti-Apartheid demonstration is held outside SA embassy in Washington
… The Soweto riots of 1976, in which school children protested against being taught … Africa was denied its seat in the United Nations, banished from…
Last of The Gandhians in South Africa
… Day volunteers ' - Indians, Africans and Coloured people - from the Transvaal in October 1946 and was sentenced to 30 … he was also soon served with banning…
Grade 12 - Topic 2 - Independent Africa
… This topic compares two forms of states that emerged from nationalist movements in the 1960s. The Congo was used … European states. (See above). Africa had…
Chapter IX - Return to my faith
… From the book: Side by Side by Helen Joseph Forty years is a … that all-night vigil to commemorate the Soweto dead of 1976. That had brought people together…
A history of Volkskas and the Absa Banking group
… so that by 1981 more than half of its profits were derived from industrial activity, the first SA bank to do so. In 1992 … unless they acquired economic…
EventWalter Sisulu celebrates 90th birthday
… concerned at the exclusion of any African voice from the incorporation of the four colonies into the Union of … I have dared to challenge the Apartheid…
EventRobert Kennedy, American politician, speaks at the University of Cape Town about the racial inequality of apartheid
… culminated almost exactly a decade later on 16 June 1976, when students in Soweto protested against Afrikaans as …
History of Muslims in South Africa: 1960 - 1969 by Ebrahim Mahomed Mahida
… From the book: History of Muslims in South Africa by Ebrahim … as Head of the Department from September 1970 to September 1976. In October 1976 the…
ArticleThabo Mbeki (1942 - ) Timeline
… 1938 Govan Mbeki receives a telegram about a job offer from the Clakesburg Institute, a Teacher Training College in … less disruption. Mandela and other high…
Nelson Mandela Correspondence with family
… hours with manual labour which mercifully distracted them from dwelling on their plight and aching for the social … visit-treasuring, are expressed in the…
PlaceVolksrust, Mpumalanga
… Majuba' was fought, where the Transvaal won independence from the British. It was decided suitable for a new Town to … battle-weary Boer soldiers came to…
List of people who died in exile
… Takatso Douglas Selepe, Donald Selomo, Ray Sembeya, Vorster Senamela, Themba Senatla, Tsotsi Samson Seperepere, …
BiographyJohn Tengo Jabavu
… were favourably commented upon. This fired his ambition.From 1877 to 1881 he taught in Somerset East, working during … Barnes, Antony Bugg-Levine, Thomas…
BiographyBarbara Anne Hogan
… as a member of ANC National Executive Committee (NEC) from 1990 to 1992. She also became involved in the Convention … Government Information, (2010), Barbara…
BiographyMary Agnes Stainbank
… at Addington Beach and the Government Offices in the CBD. From 1916 – 1921 Mary Stainbank trained at the Durban School …
BiographyNokutela (nee Mdima) Dube
… the outstanding educational institution that Ohlange was from the very first day of its existence in Inanda, South … 14 September 2012| Coan, S (2011), Its…
BiographyStephen Vukile Tshwete
… While on Robben Island he managed to complete a BA degree from UNISA. He was also involved in various committees, and …
BiographyJean Clarice Middleton
… Durban Girls' College and received an MA in English from Natal University (now the University of KwaZulu-Natal). … Herbstein D. (2011) Jean Middleton…
BiographyKing Goodwill Zwelithini kaBhekuzulu
… of the constraints placed on him, which prevented him from commenting on political issues. The ANC was particularly …
ArchiveThe Black Consciousness Movement and Steve Biko By Jonathan Ansumana
… good enough, while the minority group continues to prosper from the cheap labor of the majority group. This belief … the Black Consciousness movement as a…
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1960 - 1969
… that it will embark on a campaign against the pass laws from Monday, the 21st March. March 21, The bloodiest massacre … trial for up to five months. At…
Statement by Oliver Tambo on the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress on the 25th Anniversary of the formation of Umkhonto We Sizwe, 16 December 1986
… blood, sweat and tears as we live out that commitment. From those small beginnings Umkhonto we Sizwe has emerged … in 1973 became the precursor to the Soweto…
"Umkhonto we Sizwe - Born of the People": Statement of the National Executive Comittee of the ANC on the 25th Anniversary of the Formation of Umkhonto we Sizwe by O. R. Tambo, 16 December 1986
… blood, sweat and tears as we live out that commitment. From those small beginnings Umkhonto we Sizwe has emerged … in 1973 became the precursor to the…
EventOne hundred and twenty three people banned following June 16 Student Protest
… Three days after the 1976 Students' Revolt the Government banned 123 people for …
Article1960s: The Civil Rights and Black Power movements
… organizations and institutions. Civil society is separate from the state, and from business institutions. Civil society … inspired the Civil Rights Movement…
EventZambian president Kenneth Kaunda refuses to take part in UK
… of Kaunda and left Zambia to seek asylum in Mozambique in 1976. . Once safely ensconced in Mozambique, ZANLA increased … of Africa, "Africa Since 1935", p…
ArchiveCHAPTER 6 - Towards a Broad Front and Other Desirable Accidents, January 1981 - January 1983 by Howard Barrell
… more than twice the number of attacks in any year since 1976. It was responsible for most, if not all, of 55 attacks … RPG rockets, grenades and rifles. For…
Steve Biko: Gone but not forgotten by Robin Comley and Claire Keeton (Times Live), 12 September 2017
… defence during the lengthy trial of nine student leaders from the Black People's Convention and the South African … language to simplify some abstruse…
Closing speech by ANC President Jacob Zuma by ANC, 20 December 2007, 52nd National Conference, Polokwane
… at this conference do not indicate a fundamental shift from the policies that the ANC has adopted since it has come … eloquently in a message to the ANC in…