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ArticleGrey Street Complex timeline 1800-1999
… help solve the problem of Indian employment. 16 March, Sharpeville Day meeting The Congress Alliance (Natal) is organising a mass meeting to commemorate…
Archive“A Black Rather Well-Known South African Recently Arrived in London”: Critical Responses to Todd Matshikiza’s Chocolates for My Wife
… gained momentum in Britain, especially following the Sharpeville shootings in March 1960. The Boycott Movement … argues, that despite the South African…
ArchiveChapter 4 Political activity 1950-1963 by Denis Goldberg
… not impressed by their attitude. To protest against the Sharpeville massacre in 1960, Congress called for a … 1960, 20 000 people protested against the pass…
Article by Oliver Tambo in World Marxist Review, 06 March 1980
… police opened fire on unarmed people demonstrating in Sharpeville. It was the police, incited by Vorster himself, …
Racism in Isolation by O. R. Tambo, World Marxist Review, March 1980
… police opened fire on unarmed people demonstrating in Sharpeville. It was the police, incited by Vorster himself, …
ArchiveAppendix 1: Time Line of South African history by Denis Goldberg
… 1960 At a peaceful demonstration against the pass laws at Sharpeville 69 people were shot dead and 189 severely wounded …
ArchiveChapter 6 Underground in Joburg by Denis Goldberg
… In the early 1960s, following the sharpeville massacre and the state of emergency , there were …
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the Commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of 1956 Women’s March: Union Buildings, Tshwane, 9 August 2006
… by such brutal massacres as those that took place in Sharpeville, Soweto, Boipatong, Shobashobane and elsewhere in …
Chapter XIV - End of an era
… the Illegal Organisations Act, passed at the time of the Sharpeville Emergency in March 1960. Perhaps the sheer …
Chapter 4 - Poor, yet generous Lesotho
… Africa in 1960, many South Africans, after the massacre at Sharpeville, sought refuge in Lesotho - both ANC and PAC …
ArticleHistory of Women’s Struggle in South Africa
… seen, FSAW's plans were abruptly halted in the wake of the Sharpeville unrest when the government banned the ANC. FSAW … University, 1977. Women's resistance…
Speech by President Nelson Mandela at a banquet in honour of President Nujoma of Namibia Cape Town, 13 May 1996.
… economy, already showing signs of decline after the post-Sharpeville boom years, took a devastating knock: gold shares … realised that if Soweto was to…
ArticleGandhi and the Passive Resistance Campaign 1907-1914
… when it began to contemplate armed struggle. It was the Sharpeville Massacre of 1960 that became the turning point …
ArticleTimeline of South African photographic books and exhibitions 1958 - 2003
… was the first photographer to arrive and photograph the Sharpeville Massacre . His boss , Jim Bailey , the owner of … under the state of emergency which was…
Statement by Oliver Tambo at the meeting of the Special Committee against Apartheid, 12 January 1982
… resort to violent struggle. Call for Sanctions After the Sharpeville massacre, which was a natural development of the …
Address by ANC President Jacob Zuma at the celebration of the 90th birthday of former President Nelson Mandela, 2 August 2008
… You had been smuggled across the border! Following the Sharpeville massacre, which led to the bannings of political …
Statement by Oliver Tambo at the meeting of the United Nations Special Committee against apartheid, 12 January 1982
… resort to violent struggle. Call for Sanctions After the Sharpeville massacre, which was a natural development of the …
We Shall Win - Statement at the Meeting of the United Nations Special Committee against Apartheid to launch the International Anti-Apartheid year by O. R. Tambo, New York, 21 March 1978
… past 30 years by the subtle methods and techniques, with Sharpeville and Soweto serving as danger signals alerting …
ArchiveCHAPTER 8 - Leading from behind Virtue and necessity, April 1984-June 1985 by Howard Barrell
… us further. The sharp confrontations now ranging in Sharpeville, Evaton, Sebokeng, Lenasia and other areas must … townships in the Vaal worst affected by…
Chapter 9 - People’s Education and People’s Power: Mobilisation and Collective Action
… Events such as the massacre of anti-pass demonstrators at Sharpeville in 1960, the ANC's Defiance Campaign of 1952, the … anti-apartheid campaigns. Thus, a…
Black ViewPoint - Black Development by Njabulo Ndebele
… of this group reached both its zenith and its downfall at Sharpeville. Sharpeville indicated that the intelligentsia had failed. At …
Evidence before the Foreign Affairs Committee of the house of commons: Oliver Tambo, 29 October 1985, London
… against us was mounting throughout and culminated in the Sharpeville massacre. It was only after that; indeed, not even after the Sharpeville massacre,but…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1990-1999
… Mandela signed the new South African Constitution in Sharpeville. 12 December, Mandela received the freedom of …
The Many Faces of Apartheid Repression
… legal principle of 'common purpose' as in the case of the Sharpeville Six. During the last 2 years, 7 such prisoners …
ArticleCongress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU)
… causing tensions between the two organisations. After the Sharpeville Massacre in 1960, the ANC and SACP jointly formed …
ArticleIndian South Africans timeline 1960-1969
… lack of the most elementary rights. Are we to celebrate Sharpeville, Cato Manor and Langa.' 11 May, At a mass meeting …
Statement by Oliver Tambo to the anti-racist day meeting of the Greater London Council, 21 March 1984, London
… Africans were brutally murdered in the black township of Sharpeville, South Africa, when police fired on unarmed and …
Address to the Anti-Racist Day Meeting of the Greater London Council by O. R. Tambo, London, 21 March 1984
… Africans were brutally murdered in the black township of Sharpeville, South Africa, when police fired on unarmed and …
ArchiveCuito Cuanavale, Angola 25th Anniversary of a Historic African Battle by Ronnie Kasrils (Monthly Review), Africa, Angola
… been established in South Africa in 1912 and, until the Sharpeville massacre of 1960, had followed a path of …
Passive resistance in South Africa by Oliver Tambo, 2 June 1966
… degree of world interest in South Africa was such that the Sharpeville massacre provoked an explosive and universal …