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EventDisinvestment moves by two major companies
… Student campaigns against Barclays Bank, initiated in the 1960s, were carried on year after year, especially at the …
EventSADF mounts raids on ANC targets in neighbouring states
… and the ANC set up headquarters in Lusaka, Zambia. In the 1960s, the ANC extended resistance activities to armed …
ArticleThe Market Photo Workshop
… artistic context of Newtown. Social documentary was the main focus at first as it could provide the students with an …
Port Elizabeth an Overview
… Casalis, Smith and Livingstone. In time this became the main route to the Kimberley diamond fields. Port Elizabeth …
ArticleHistory of South African National Orders and Awards
… history and experience of Africa with South Africa as the main point of reference. The collective outcome of this …
ArticleThe Contentious Relationship Between Ngqika And Ndlambe
… in a web of royal lineage. Although lineage was the main determinant to leadership, this was kept in check by … number of conflicts are hard to gage, as well…
ArchiveLetter to Petros Sipho Mkhize from his father in Macambini, KwaZulu-Natal
… The full isiZulu text awaits translation. Undated; circa 1960s (the family attributes it to the period of his …
ArchiveDeborah Matshoba’s fight against Apartheid by Alec Russo
… as Saleem Badat argues “the BC movement saw race as the main dividing line, and racial and national oppression as the … and then amplified into black South…
BiographyMarcus Solomon
… Maintaining that human beings make themselves, Marx’s main focus was how people develop. Activists need to …
BiographyKgalema Petrus Motlanthe
… 1997 to 2002, Motlanthe adheres to the principle that his main responsibility was to maintain the unity of the …
EventUN report accuses Katangan President and Congo President of conspiracy to murder Patrice Lumumba
… both Secretaries General of the UN in the early to mid 1960s, were opposed to Lumumba and may have covertly assisted …
ArticleRace and ethnicity in South Africa
… . This Act divided the South African population into three main racial groups: Whites, Natives (Blacks), Indians and … several thousand people in Southern…
Conflict among civic organisations
… the third was concentration of electric cables under the main control room. Wilkinson and his girlfriend Gray dug up … devices hidden under his work overalls…
ArticleFreedom Charter timeline 1948-1961
… Planning Council (made up of representatives from all the main anti-apartheid groups) is chaired by Moroka on the day … proposes the drawing up of the…
ArticleuMkhonto weSizwe (MK) in exile
… an increasing tide of Independent African states in the 1960s. Coupled with the growing influence of Pan Africanism … reservoir. On 13 February 1983, one of…
Women’s Food Committees in Cape Town during the 1940s
… in the broader political struggles of the 1950s and 1960s. Dorothy Zihlangu identifies a successful campaign by …
EventUnited Party disbands
… The United Party, main political opposition party in South Africa, was formally … and the ruling National Party (NP). Subsequently, the main group decided to…
Biography of Caiphus Semenya
… Caiphus Semenya. Born and raised in South Africa, by the 1960s the increase in oppressive laws created by the … the door in the U.S. entertainment scene and…
Origins: Formation, Sharpeville and banning, 1959-1960
… a year after PAC was formed. The PAC moves underground (1960s - 1976) The PAC faced a leadership crisis. When Sobukwe … South Africa in 1994. The PAC in…
The South African War
… town, which took place some 21km to its south before the main body of Republican forces retreated to Pretoria. To the …
EventSouth African poet, writer and political activist, Mafika Pascal Gwala is born in Durban.
… journals. He was involved in politics dating back to the 1960s. He was detained in 1977, the same year as Steve Biko. …
The Indians of Natal: Resistance to Apartheid, 1971-1985 by Davinder S. Dhillon
… its constituency, which had turn apathetic during the 1960s under the weight of state repression, are …
The United Nations adopts resolution 1375 (XIV) on Apartheid
… would intensify pressure on South Africa throughout the 1960s and beyond. …
ArticlePort Elizabeth the Segregated city
… of Salisbury Park, Fairview and South End in the late 1960s, Zwide was declared in 1968 and Motherwell in 1982. It …
ArticleThe Black Sash: A History of Transformation
… league. This fact concerned the Black Sash less in the 1960s when the organisation allowed all races to join. … by opening up offices throughout country…
Chapter 3 - THE MOROGORO AFTERMATH
… Communist Party In Exile 1963 - 1990 The end of the 1960s was another important phase in the history of the … seriously by the Party". According to this…
EventJean van der Poel dies in Cape Town.
… and was offered the King George V chair of history in the 1960s, which she declined. She retired in 1969. Van der …
Marikana Commission of Inquiry
… the State president on 31 March 2015. The Commission’s main findings and recommendations The report absolved the key …
Marikana Commission of Inquiry
… the State president on 31 March 2015. The Commission’s main findings and recommendations The report absolved the key …
ArticleMarikana Commission of Inquiry
… to the State president on 31 March 2015. The Commission’s main findings and recommendations The report absolved the key …