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ArticleThe 1956 Women’s March, Pretoria, 9 August
… hundreds of African men and women assembled in the Langa township outside Cape Town to protest the impending …
ArticleFootball in South Africa
… and thus served as a mobilising force for neighborhood, township, and political organisations. Football humanised the … Conrad Stuurman, Scara Sono, and…
EventEleven protesters are killed in Sebokeng
… The police opened fire on a crowd of Sebokeng township residents who sought to march on the local offices … local facilities and called for the resignation…
Article16 June 1976 - Soweto Uprising
… at about 12:00 and many students walked out of school to a township on fire. "It was past twelve, past twelve to one. … The fury and frustration that had…
EventThe second Carnegie Report on poverty in South Africa is released
… the Orange Free State province 800 residents of a Black township were forced to share 12 open-pit toilets, which led …
ArticlePeter Magubane Timeline 1932-
… Vrededorp, South Africa. Matriculates from Western Native Township High School. 1954 Worked as a photojournalist for …
Soweto forty years on: The Black student rebellion of 1976 by Professor Noor Nieftagodien
… of months of mobilisation and years of rebuilding township-based resistance organisations. From the early 1970s … along the Soweto Highway, the main road…
New tactics in the revolt
… little to do and there were no taxis or buses inside the township. Only police-protected buses, on the outskirts of … their mandate from school pupils, and…
EventFormer Vaal policeman Gerhardus Peens admits his role in the Boipatong Massacre
… admitted that he was in the Vaal Triangle (now Gauteng) township of Boipatong on 17 June 1992 when several people … KwaMadala hostel shot and hacked people…
PlaceSada
… Sada (Xhosa word meaning “at last”), a Township about 30km North of Seymour and 3km South of … had been used as Shiloh’s Cattle Post MY HOMETOWN: SADA…
EventSoweto Town council asks SADF troops to stay
… South African Defence Force troops be withdrawn from the township and that the councillors resign. On 4 June, 1986 the … made by the SCA and asked the SADF…
EventPolice found burnt body near KTC squatter camp, Cape Town
… could be related to what was happening in the Langa Township that same week, where delivery vehicles were looted. There were many looting incidents in Langa…
EventGoldstone report on police shootings in Sebokeng is released
… shooting by the police of anti-Apartheid protesters in the township of Sebokeng on 26 March, 1990, was made public. On … police had opened fire on anti…
EventThe Boipotong massacre takes place
… hostel shot and hacked their way through the Black township of Boipatong (Johannesburg), leaving forty-six … The IFP and the government denied any…
ArticleStaffrider magazine (1978-1993)
… from 1978 to 1993. It took its name and identity from township slang referring to black youth who travelled … is now called the Mpumulanga Arts Group in…
In the name of art - A reflection on fine art
… , th e se three signs were the visual landmarks of the township landscape. They have al l been removed and replaced … Within the context of the huge military…
EventFourteen are killed in Phola Park violence
… Phola Park, East Rand: As township warfare spreads, a woman grieves over her husbands … dwellers and Phola Park residents located in the Thokoza Township on…
EventYouth rage follows the funeral of Victoria Mxenge
… to close down. The violence became very serious in Umlazi Township, Kwazulu-Natal, when it became fused with existing … Weekly Mail Reporter. 1985. "Violence…
EventScores of people are killed in Boipatong, Vaal
… One of the most gruesome attacks on township residents was carried out by armed men from Kwa … In what has become known as the Boipatong massacre, township…
PlaceMotswedi Alexandra Art Centre, Wynberg Sandton
… in Alexandra! They will have High School learners in the Township honing their talents in Theater, music and drawing. … embarking on various holistic…
The fight against passes continues
… In Port Elizabeth the government brought trucks into the township to try to give passes to the women. You didn't have … and they went to get passes. The…
EventAmy Biehl is murdered in Cape Town
… from her car by a 100-strong mob of youths in Gugulethu, a township just outside Cape Town, and stabbed to death. Biehl was driving three co-workers to their…
EventStompie Seipei’s murderer goes to jail
… Mandela as a front for the political mobilisation of township youths to stand against apartheid. Jerry Richardson … a charge that carried a death penalty in…
List of Laws on Land Dispossession and Segregation
… registered voters or had permission to stay outside the township were exempted. The police were empowered to effect … The Act also heralded the establishment…
ArticleThe Freedom Charter Campaign
… to establish committees in every workplace, village and township. The final stage would involve the election of …
ArticleThe Founding of the SANNC
… place on 8 January 1912 at Maphikela House in Mangaung Township, Bloemfontein. Of the group of delegates that met, …
BiographyTeboho “Tsietsi” Mashinini
Tsietsi Mashinini was born on 27 January 1957 in Central Western Jabavu, Soweto. Mashinini was the second son of Ramothibi, a lay preacher in the Methodist…
BiographyDavid Goldblatt
David Goldblatt, one of South Africa’s most famous documentary photographers, is internationally acclaimed for his work. The grandson of Lithuanian-Jewish…
EventSouth Africa abandons the Gold Standard, sparking a period of economic expansion
… city slum yards of Rooiyard in Doornfontein, Prospect Township (east of Johannesburg) and Bertrams. They were … Apart from Klipspruit, Orlando East was the…
Anti-Indian Legislation 1800s - 1959
… ownership or occupation of property in white areas. The Township Franchise Ordinance is approved by the Provincial … Act - this Act provides for Job…