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… Tutu slams Witbank car bomb horror, The Cape Times, 25 …

… Archbishop Desmond Tutu is arrested outside parliament while leading a protest …

… Commission, under chairman Archbishop Desmond Tutu, starts its first formal hearings in East Londo …

… Desmond Tutu is selected as the archbishop of Cape Town, head of the …

… Mr Ernest Mamashila, aged 35,was detained on 16 November 1976 under section 6(1) of the Terrorism Act.His wife was … coal merchant and owned a fleet of taxis.On his return from a holiday with his family in Cape Town he was told that … issued on 23 February 1977 said that on Monday 19 November 1976 Mr Mamashila was found hanged with strips torn from a …

… gave Hugh Masekela  his first trumpet, passing it on from Louis ‘Satchmo’ Armstrong. He then asked the leader of … succeeding Cannon John Collins. In 1983, after he retired from the Episcopal office, he was awarded the United Nations … 70 th birthday, Huddleston and Archbishop Desmond Tutu  addressed a rally of 200 000 at Hyde Park. In April …

… and moreover, that a byproduct of Apartheid was that from an early age Black children became accustomed to seeing … mother to this burgeoning student movement. In May 1976, just a few weeks before the famous student uprising in … the chairman of the committee, Archbishop Desmond Tutu implored her to admit that whatever her intentions might …

… develop a stronger civilisation that dominated the region from around 3500 BC to around 2350 BC, when they were … civilisation carries many different influences from the west and east. For some more info on Alexander the … Emperor of China. Image source China The name China comes from the early Chin dynasty that once ruled the area covering …

… the Rand Daily Mail as a political journalist. In November 1976 he was charged in the Pretoria Supreme Court under the Terrorism Act. He was charged with receiving money from the ANC and SACP, establishing an underground cell with … of banned organisations. Holiday was convicted in November 1976 and sentenced to serve six years’ imprisonment to be …

… From East, West, North and South: Letters from our readers …

… Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, Westport: Greenwood … Prime Minister Vorster officially opens the Orange-Fish River Tunnel, …

… Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, Westport: Greenwood … Party rally at Volksrust, the Prime Minister, B.J. Vorster says that South Africa’s fight against foreign …

… Balthasar Johannes (John) Vorster, former prime minister and president of SA, marries …

… Prime Minister John Vorster announces that a first-ever multi-racial commission …

… Progressive Federal Party refuses to congratulate John Vorster on his appointment as State President on …

… Opening Parliament, State President Vorster promises South Africa a new deal, new economic and …

… Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, Westport: Greenwood. … John Vorster declares that he has personally authorised the …

… Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, Westport: Greenwood. … The opposition moves to impeach President Vorster for his controversial intervention. However it …

… Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, Westport: Greenwood. … The Prime Minister defends John Vorster’s statement, denying that a constitutional crisis has …

… Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, Westport: Greenwood. … Prime Minister B.J. Vorster indicates that the ‘homelands’ will be perfectly free …

… stance in Central Western Jabavu to erect a shack. In 1976, her son  Tsietsi  led the student  uprising in Soweto . … continue with his education whilst in exile. On her return from the Swaziland trip, she was detained in Standerton; about two and a half hour drive from Soweto. She was held in solitary confinement for the …

… attended collegiate high school for girls and graduated from Rhodes University in 1951.She is the mother of seven and … important investigations since the investigation into the 1976 Soweto revolt. Blackburn started to be seen as a … of times. In 1985, while driving back to Port Elizabeth from Oudshoorn, Blackburn, her sister, Judy Chalmers …

… He was a student revolt casualty of 1976. …

… seven. His grandmother and uncles raised him. During the 1976 Soweto uprising, Mthembu was a student leader at … started working at Highveld Steel as a training officer from 1980 to 1984, and as production foreman from 1986-1988. He was a senior steward at the Met­al and …

… the Eastern Cape. He attended St. Peter’s Secondary School from 1956, and went on to study law at the University of Cape … Island in 1964, and served a 10 year term on the island, from 1964 to 1974. Bam was detained with other prominent … a Baccalaureus Procurationis from the same institution in 1976. Bam applied to join the Pretoria Bar Council in 1978 …

… Africa) at the international Court of Justice, The Hague, from 1963-66. He represented the South African Government as Agent in the case from 1965-66 and it was at this time that he first became … in the Information Affair, from taking over from B.J Vorster, who had retired. Although his candidature had no …

… Africa. In 1929, Weinberg’s father came to South Africa from Latvia, after the First World War and the Socialist … death rested on the shoulders of 20 year old Weinberg. In 1976, Weinberg was served with a banning order that … repression but it was banned in South Africa.  In 1976, at the height of the Soweto uprisings and at the ANC’s …

… Address on Accepting an Honarary Doctorate from the Russian Academy of Sciences …

… Letter from the Communist League of America toT.W. Thibedi, 30 May …

… Letter from T. W. Thibedi to the Communist League ot America', 26 …