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June 17
… Mulder announced that nearly all the WRAB buildings in Soweto had been destroyed. This amounted to 21 offices being … during Henry Kissinger's visit... Kiss-…
BiographyDulcie Evonne September
… the booklet was published on 16 June, in commemoration of Soweto Day. During June 1979, the United Nations (UN) Unit …
South African Youth Revolutionary Council (SAYRCO)
… out on 16 June 1976 was organised and directed by the Soweto Students Representative Council (SSRC) . Recent … included representatives from the five high…
ArticleNew light on ‘76 uprising
… Peterson was not the first person to be killed in the 1976 Soweto uprising, a new book sensationally claims. Hastings … in The Rocky Rioter Teargas Show,…
ArticleThe following is a list of 43 names of those killed in the stampede at a soccer match at Ellis Park stadium
… the deceased Madikana Samuel Selepe, 39, from Diepsloot, Soweto Johannes Mandla Mthembu, 36, from Palm Springs, Vaal … Standerton, Mpumalanga Abel Tshabangu,…
ArticleBlack Consciousness and 16 June – The birth of a new generation
… played by the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM) in the Soweto revolt is demonstrated by the students' demand for an … problems that, at the end of May 1976,…
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BiographyB J Vorster [John Vorster]
… which continued when PW Botha succeeded him. After the Soweto uprising , he sought to temper the blunt edge of … , effectively ending Vorster’s policy of…
ArticleGrade 9 - Term 4: Turning points in modern South African History since 1948
… complex period to be studied, the Sharpeville massacre, Soweto uprising and the release of Nelson Mandela and … March Robert Sobukwe left his house in Mofolo…
Political assassinations 1974 - 1994
… Katryn (6) ANC and unionist (SACTU) Parcel bomb. 13 Sept. Soweto Bongani Khumalo Student activist (COSAS) Shot dead by … (MAWU) Bomb thrown in house (husband…
ArticleAzanian People’s Organization (AZAPO)
… convened in Roodepoort, electing chairman of the Soweto Teachers' Action Committee Curtis Nkondo as its … in the liberation struggle. It attempted to revive…
ArticleUnited Democratic Front (UDF)
… place on a social, economic and political level since the Soweto Uprising . A new, more militant culture had emerged, … a move towards mass organisation. In…
ArticleBlack Consciousness Movement Timeline 1903-2009
… a job as a history teacher at Morris Isaacson School in Soweto, but is fired after six months as authorities put … later, Reverend Mxwandile Maqina’s Give Us…
ArticleWestern Cape Youth Uprising timeline 1976
… a meeting to express solidarity with the students of Soweto and decide to embark on a boycott of classes. 6 … Gugulethu and Nyanga hold marches in solidarity…
Black South African Poets of the 1970’s and their Publications
… A Cowhide Drum, Renoster Press 1971 Fireflames 1980 Soweto Poetry, ed. Michael Chapman Black Poetry in SA, … Donker 1975 The Bues is You in…
ArticleBlack People’s Convention (BPC)
… of the North and the historic student uprising in Soweto on 16 June 1976 were inspired by BPC and its BC … BC philosophy, SASM mobilised high school students…
ArticleList of uMkhonto weSizwe Operations
… SAP vehicle 1977 08/01/77 Economic: railway line near Soweto 15/06/1977 Unplanned actions/skirmish with SAP: Two … dead in Umlazi, Durban ??/12/78 …
ArticleBlack Consciousness Movement (BCM)
… its oppressive rule without massive resistance. The Soweto riots were followed by continuous unrest: students and … activists were arrested, including…
ArticleSouth African Students Movement (SASM)
… demonstration for 16 June 1976, and SASM which created the Soweto Students' Representative Council (SSRC) from which the … formed in 1970 when senior…
Biography of Miriam Makeba by Narcy Negrete
… United Nations. Key Words Miriam Makeba, music, Pata Pata, Soweto Blues, Graceland tour, United Nations Assembly … Masekela, one of her five husbands,…
ArticleSophiatown timeline 1899-1955
… to remove Sophiatown residents and resettle them in Soweto. 1953 The NRB conducts a survey of Sophiatown … and removal of the community from Sophiatown to…
ArticleThe Destruction of Sophiatown
… for Sophiatown's community earmarked for resettlement in Soweto. The JCC did not have the budget to finance a low cost … resettlement of Sophiatown residents…
ArticleJohannesburg the Segregated city
… the city right up to the 1960s, when the rapid growth of Soweto under apartheid changed the balance radically. Since … for new housing developments. A recent…
ArticleBantu education and the racist compartmentalizing of education
… ‘homelands’ policy, no new high schools were built in Soweto between 1962 and 1971 -- students were meant to move … trained black workforce. 40 new schools…
Article1970’s: Poetry Timeline
… gazette in Pretoria (Pretoria Bureau 1975). 1976 June 16 Soweto Uprising . 100 students shot dead by police. A … published. 1977 Sipho Sepamla’s third book…
ArticleNational Youth Uprising
… in Cape Town reacted to the news they heard of events in Soweto. A teacher at one of the Coloured schools was later to … write: 'We haven't done much by way…
ArticleYouth Politics in South Africa in the 1970s
… their first focus. However, the initiative was limited to Soweto, without any serious attempt at forming a national … increased number of bombings in the…
Armed struggle & the advancement of the student and labour movements, 1967-1976
… importance of Black workers to apartheid capitalism. Soweto Uprising June 16 uprisings and the youth struggle in … to a street procession of secondary school…
Re-Emergence of Congress Activity 1980s
… supported by a wide variety of tendencies, including the Soweto Committee of Ten , Azanian People's Organisation … of the West Rand Administration Board in…
ArticleBlack Consciousness and student revolt in the Cape
… passive resistance against Afrikaans. The outbreak of Soweto Uprising on 16 June 1976 spread to other parts of the … spread to other parts of the country…
Kutlwano Moagi
… Photographer and an aspiring Jazz Upright Bassist. Born in soweto, 14 April 1983. Completed a photography learnership at …